Additional 122nd, 124th Rifle Corps and divisions from 117th Rifle Corps were subordinated to General Ivan Fedyuninsky, commanding the 2nd Shock Army. The Soviet Marshal Leonid Govorov considered the Tannenberg Line as the key position of Army Group North and concentrated the best forces of the Leningrad Front. Another front section manned by the East Prussians of the 11th Infantry Division was situated a few kilometres further south, against the 8th Army in the Krivasoo bridgehead. The 4th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Brigade Nederland started digging in on the left (north) flank of the Tannenberg Line, units of the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) in the centre, and the 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland on the right (south) flank. The formations of Gruppenführer Felix Steiner's III SS (Germanic) Panzer Corps halted their withdrawal and moved into defensive positions on the hills.
The heights have steep slopes and rise 20–50 m above the surrounding land. The central was the Grenaderimägi (Grenadier Hill Grenadierhöhe) and the westernmost was the Tornimägi (Tower Hill, also known in German as or 69.9 or Liebhöhe (Love Hill)). The eastern hill was known to Estonians as the Lastekodumägi (Orphanage Hill Kinderheimhöhe in German). View from the summit of the Grenadier Hill towards the Orphanage HillĪfter defending the Narva bridgehead for six months, the German forces fell back to the Tannenberg Line in the hills of Sinimäed ( Russian: Синие горы) on 26 July 1944. Roughly half of the infantry consisted of Estonian conscripts. Axis forces included 24 volunteer infantry battalions from Denmark, East Prussia, Flanders, Holland, Norway, and Wallonia within the Waffen-SS. The strategic aim of the Soviet Estonian Operation was to reoccupy Estonia as a favourable base for the invasions of Finland and East Prussia. The battle was fought on the Eastern Front during World War II. They fought for the strategically important Narva Isthmus from 25 July to 10 August 1944. The Battle of Tannenberg Line ( German: Die Schlacht um die Tannenbergstellung Estonian: Sinimägede lahing Russian: Битва за линию «Танненберг») was a military engagement between the German Army Detachment " Narwa" and the Soviet Leningrad Front. This is a sub-article to Battle of Narva (1944). Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 668: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.ġ70,000 total casualties Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted. Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources, or by checking whether the references meet the criteria for reliable sources. Some of this article's listed sources may not be reliable.
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