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Operation Northwind (German: Unternehmen Nordwind) was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front. Northwind was launched to support the German Ardennes offensive campaign in the Battle of the Bulge , which by late December 1944 had decisively turned against the German forces.
Operation Nordwind was launched by German ground forces on 31 December 1944 against U.S. and French ground forces in the Rhineland-Palatinate and the Alsace and Lorraine regions of southwestern Germany and northeastern France as part of the European Theatre in World War II. It ended on 25 January 1945.
Operation Northwind: Allied and German: December 31, 1944– January 25, 1945 Battle of Berlin - operations in and around the city German and Soviet: April 16 – May 2, 1945 Battle in Berlin - fighting within the city German and Soviet: April 23 – May 2, 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre; East African campaign
(December 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The XIV SS Corps (German: Generalkommando XIV. SS-Armeekorps ) was a short-lived Waffen-SS corps -level headquarters formed to participate in Operation Northwind on the Upper Rhine in the winter of 1944-1945 during World War II .
On New Year's Day 1945, the Germans launched Unternehmen Nordwind (Operation "North Wind"), one objective of which was the recapture of Strasbourg. German troops of the 198th Infantry Division and the 106th Panzer Brigade attacked north out of the Colmar Pocket from 7–13 January.
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Operation North Wind (German: Unternehmen Nordwind) was a joint German-Finnish naval operation in the Baltic Sea in 1941, in the course of World War II.The operation itself was a distracting manoeuvre so that another German force could occupy the Estonian islands of Hiiumaa, Saaremaa and Muhu (codenamed Operation Beowulf) without the interference of the Soviet Red Fleet.
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