Success
On 3 September 1917, Hutier, commanding the German Eighth Army, ended the two-year siege of the Russian-ruled city of Riga with his tactics. He followed this success with an amphibious assault (the only successful one of the war) to seize Russian-held islands in the Baltic Sea.
Though Hutier was not present, other German generals used his methods in October 1917 to win a spectacular victory over the Italians at the Battle of Caporetto. Hutier was awarded the Pour le Mérite by Kaiser Wilhelm II and transferred to the Western Front in 1918.
In March of that year, Hutier again employed the infiltration tactics in the Spring Offensive. He hammered the Allied line along the gap between the French and British armies, advancing some 40 miles along the Somme River toward Amiens. The German Army captured 80,000 prisoners and 975 artillery pieces. Hutier was awarded the Oak Leaves to accompany his Pour le Mérite.
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