1. KAUJA PAR DAUGAVPILI 1944. GADĀ.
- Author
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Seļionovs, Jevgeņijs
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MILITARY officers , *WAR , *ARMED Forces ,GERMAN military - Abstract
In this paper, the fights for Daugavpils between Red Army and German forces are described. Daugavpils was a very important point of transport communication. This work is based on the memories of the commanders of Red Army and German forces (Otto Cariuss, Eremenko, Bagramyan) and scientific literature where the fights nearby Daugavpils and in the city in July in 1944 are reconstructed. In the paper, the troops of Red Army and German forces that participated in the fights for Daugavpils are mentioned. The author mentions the names of the commanders of both Red Army (Orlovskij, Vladimirov, Maksimenko) and German forces as well as the names of the soldiers (Otto Carius, Eihorns, Kerhers). In this paper, the author compares the descriptions provided by different authors to reconstruct correctly all the events during which Daugavpils was set free from German forces in July 1944. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014