Operation Doppelkopf

Operation Doppelkopf
Part of Eastern Front of World War II

Eastern Front, June–August 1944. The attack at the connection between Army Groups Centre (Third Panzer Army) and North (Sixteenth Army) west of Riga is marked.
Date16 August 1944 – 27 August 1944
Location
Western Latvia
55°50′N 23°10′E / 55.833°N 23.167°E / 55.833; 23.167
Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
 Germany  Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Nazi Germany Georg-Hans Reinhardt
(Army Group Centre)
Nazi Germany Erhard Raus
(Third Panzer Army)		 Soviet Union Ivan Chernyakhovsky
(3rd Belorussian Front)
Soviet Union Hovhannes Bagramyan
(1st Baltic Front)

Operation Doppelkopf (German: Unternehmen Doppelkopf) and the following Operation Cäsar were German counter-offensives on the Eastern Front in the late summer of 1944 in the aftermath of the major Soviet advance in Operation Bagration with the aim of restoring a coherent front between Army Group North and Army Group Centre. The operation's codename was a reference to the German card game Doppelkopf.