Key battles in WW1/WW2

Courland (Latvia)

Courland was one of the last German hold outs in WW2 and came from the daunting counterattack from the Red army in 1944. As the Baltics was the last major German occupied region of the USSR throughout the whole of the Eastern front. In the end game the Red army had far superior numbers and equipment. Let's see what happened...

Summer 1944, the war had decisively turned against Germany and the Red army had consistently fought back the German defence and now the German troops and high command were under pressure to do something to turn the crisis into a victory. The Red army, after defeating Germany and its allies in decisive battles, Stalingrad, Kursk and Moscow. And they had achieved an incredibly large numerical superiority of nearly 6,500,000 men. While the Germans were lacking reinforcements and reserves to patch up the front. And could barely holster 2,500,000 men. The Red army nearly outnumbered the strong Bundeshwer 3:1. And turning Germany's allies against them was easy because all they needed to do was defeat Germany massively and in fear would make them defect to the Allies side. After severe defeats inflicted in battles of Narva and the Tartu and Riga offensives aswell. Which was enough to sway the German Allies into Allied forces. One key loss was Romania as the Fascist Iron Guard fell after a coup. And the new government joined the Allies. Then Bulgaria followed suit and the Balkans were slowly going into Allied hands because the Yugoslav partisans were taking over most of the country and Germany then extracted its units remaining in Greece abandoning the Balkans and also the loss of two major Allies aswell. Then after the Balkan front collapsed, the Red army began to encircle units in Latvia and the Germans were able to break out but then they were cut off in Courland where 200,000 men were trapped in the pocket and would hold out until the inevitable defeat of Germany in May 1945. And with the secured Baltic region, the Red army could now refocus back on the central part of the front and attacked onto Poland and the rest of the Balkan region to support the Yugoslav partisan movements.