Ruhr pocket
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ruhr-pocket-188-17565626
title:
Ruhr pocket
text:
The Ruhr pocket was a battle of encirclement that took place in April 1945, on the Western Front near the end of World War II in Europe, in the Ruhr Area of Germany. Some 317,000 German troops were taken prisoner along with 24 generals. The Americans suffered 10,000 casualties including 2,000 killed or missing. Exploiting the capture of the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen on 7 March 1945, the U.S. 12th Army Group advanced rapidly into German territory south of Army Group B. In the north, the Allied
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Battle on the Western Front in 1945
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr_pocket
date created:
2005-01-06T19:43:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T04:10:29Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Remagen_enclosure.jpg","width":614,"height":437}
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13
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