Operation Pfälzer-Linie

Palatinate Line

The 'Pfälzer-Linie' was the German fifth intermediate fall-back line of Generalleutnant Paul Dannhauser’s 256th Division of General Josef Harpe’s XLI Corps of Generaloberst Walter Model’s 9th Army within Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge’s Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' during the evacuation of the Rzhev salient on the Eastern Front (14/20 March 1943).