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| Army Group Courland | |
|---|---|
| German: Heeresgruppe Kurland | |
 Armband | |
| Active | 25 January – 10 May 1945 |
| Country |  Nazi Germany |
| Branch |  Heer ( Wehrmacht) |
| Type | Army group |
| Commanders | |
| Last commander | Carl Hilpert |
| Chief-of-Staff | Friedrich Foertsch |
| Notable commanders | Lothar Rendulic |
Army Group Courland (German: Heeresgruppe Kurland) was a German Army Group on the Eastern Front. It was created from remnants of the Army Group North, isolated in the Courland Peninsula by the advancing Soviet Army forces during the 1944 Baltic Offensive of the Second World War. The army group remained isolated in the Courland Pocket until the end of World War II in Europe. All units of the Army Group were ordered to surrender by the capitulated Wehrmacht command on 8 May 1945.
At the time agreed for all German armed forces to end hostilities (see the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945), the Sixteenth and Eighteenth armies of Army Group Courland, commanded by General (of Infantry) Carl Hilpert, ended hostilities at 23:00, on 8 May 1945, surrendering to Leonid Govorov, commander of the Leningrad Front. By the evening of 9 May 1945 189,000 German troops, including 42 officers in the rank of general, in the Courland Pocket had surrendered.[1]
- ^ May 9th 1945 (From the Soviet Information Bureau) Archived 2007-05-26 at the Wayback Machine part of the RIA Novosti 60 anniversary of surrender project Archived May 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine