The Courland Pocket formed in late 1944 as Army Group North attempted to retreat from the Leningrad Region and the Baltic States. The Soviet Red Army trapped them in Latvia and lay siege to them until the end of the war. This documentary video uses maps and unit animations to detail the events on the operational level - because that's what BATTLESTORM is all about. Who's to blame for the way this battle turns out? Let's find out!
This is all the Courland videos placed into one complete video. Good luck to all of you who marathon this, and be sure to boast about that in the comment section below!
The script for this video was approximately 47,500 words!
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Full list of all my sources docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/114GiK85MPs0v4GKm0izPj3DL2CrlJUdAantx5GQUKn8/edit?usp=sharing
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Episode 1 "Scraping the Barrel"
00:38:33 Episode 2 "The Baltic Tragedy"
01:02:22 Episode 3 "Operation Doppelkopf"
01:38:16 Episode 4 "Tartu and Operation Cäsar"
02:13:16 Episode 5 "Reconquest of Estonia"
02:50:10 Episode 6 "Cutting off Army Group North"
03:25:38 Episode 7 "The 1st Battle of the Courland Pocket"
03:56:50 Episode 8 "The 2nd Battle of the Courland Pocket"
04:33:12 Episode 9 "The 3rd Battle of the Courland Pocket"
05:08:07 Episode 10 "The 4th and 5th Battles of Courland"
05:45:11 Episode 11 "Capitulation"
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- The Courland Pocket 1944-45 FULL BATTLESTORM History Documentary ( Download)
- The Courland Pocket 1944-45 WW2 Documentary BATTLESTORM Part 1 Scraping the Barrel ( Download)
- The Courland Pocket 1944-45 WW2 BATTLESTORM History Documentary Part 3 | Operation Doppelkopf ( Download)
- The Courland Pocket 1944 WW2 History Documentary BATTLESTORM Part 4: Tartu and Operation Cäsar ( Download)
- Capitulation of the Courland Pocket 1944 | WW2 BATTLESTORM History Documentary Part 11 ( Download)
- The Courland Pocket WW2 History Documentary BATTLESTORM Part 2 The Baltic Tragedy ( Download)
- The 1st Battle of the Courland Pocket 1944 | BATTLESTORM WW2 History Documentary 7 ( Download)
- Cutting off Army Group North in the Courland Pocket 1944 WW2 History Documentary BATTLESTORM Part 6 ( Download)
- 4th and 5th Battles of the Courland Pocket 1944 | WW2 BATTLESTORM History Documentary Part 10 ( Download)
- The Great Battle for Courland 1944-1945 | The Agony of Army Group North ( Download)
- Reconquest of Estonia: The Courland Pocket 1944 WW2 History Documentary BATTLESTORM Part 5 ( Download)
- The Third Battle of the Courland Pocket 1944 | WW2 BATTLESTORM History Documentary Part 9 ( Download)
- The Second Battle of the Courland Pocket 1944 | WW2 BATTLESTORM History Documentary Part 8 ( Download)
- WW2: The Courland Disaster - The Betryal of Army Group North ( Download)
- Last Flight of the Luftwaffe - Courland Evacuation VE-Day 1945 ( Download)
