The Colmar Pocket (French: Poche de Colmar); (German: Brückenkopf Elsaß) is the term for a containment operation in Alsace, France, during the Second World War by the U.S. 6th Army Group of the German Nineteenth Army following the collapse of the Nazi Operation Nordwind.
A joint U.S.-French force of the French First Army reinforced by the U.S. XXI Corps overwhelmed fierce Wehrmacht and SS resistance in harsh winter conditions between 20 January and 9 February 1945, bringing to a close the last German offensive of World War II.
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