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Kamenets-Podolsky pocket
The Battle of the Kamianets-Podilskyi pocket (or Battle of Tarnopol) was a Soviet effort to surround and destroy the Wehrmacht's 1st Panzer Army of Army Group South. The envelopment occurred in March 1944 on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. The Red Army successfully created the pocket, trapping some 200,000 German soldiers inside. Under the command of Generaloberst Hans-Valentin Hube and with the direction of Fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein, the German forces in the pocket were able to fight their way out and escape by mid-April. This event is sometimes referred to as Hube's Pocket.
==Preparation==
In February 1944, the 1st Panzer Army—commanded by ''Generaloberst'' Hans-Valentin Hube—consisted of four Corps, three of which were Panzer Corps (comprising 8 Panzer and 1 Panzergrenadier divisions). Together with attached Army units the 1st Panzer Army included over 200,000 troops and was the most powerful formation of ''Generalfeldmarshall'' Erich von Manstein's Army Group South. The formation's III Panzer Corps had recently fought extensively in operations to thwart an earlier Soviet attempt to trap and destroy two Corps in the Korsun–Shevchenkivskyi Offensive,〔Glantz (1989), p. 332 - situation map, 1 March 1944〕
Realizing the significance of the 1st Panzer Army, Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov began planning to bring about its destruction with hopes of creating a collapse of the entire South-Eastern Front. Zhukov planned a multi-Front offensive, involving his own 1st and Marshal Ivan Konev's 2nd Ukrainian Front. This force of over eleven Armies, including two Air Armies, was to attempt to outflank and encircle Hube's Army, and, in a repeat of the Battle of Stalingrad, reduce the resulting pocket (in German, ''kessel'', roughly meaning a steam boiler or "pressure cooker") until all troops in it have surrendered. The operations were to take place on the extreme north and south of the Army Group South's front.
Manstein was informed of large troop movements all across Hube's front and was aware of an impending operation, however, with Adolf Hitler's refusal to allow strategic withdrawals, there was little he could do.〔Glantz (1989), p. 334〕
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