Operation Blitz (vi)

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'Blitz' (vi) was a German unrealised plan for an offensive by elements of Generaloberst Ferdinand Schörner’s Heeresgruppe 'Nord' from the area of Raseiniai in Lithuania against the Soviet salient of General Hovhannes Kh. Bagramyan’s 1st Baltic Front in the area to the west of Jelgava in Latvia (20 September 1944).