Rösselsprung (which refers to the
Knight's Move
The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically, jumping over other pieces. Each pla ...
in chess) was the code-name given to two German operations in
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
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Operation Rösselsprung (1942) The planned attack by ''Tirpitz'' and other surface vessels against arctic
convoy PQ 17
Convoy PQ 17 was an Allied Arctic convoy during the Second World War. On 27 June 1942, the ships sailed from Hvalfjörður, Iceland, for the port of Arkhangelsk in the Soviet Union. The convoy was located by German forces on 1 July, shadowed ...
in 1942
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Operation Rösselsprung (1944)
Operation Rösselsprung () was a combined Airborne forces, airborne and ground assault by the Nazi Germany, German XV Mountain Corps (Germany), XV Mountain Corps and collaborationism, collaborationist forces on the Partisan Supreme Headquarter ...
The German-led operation to kill or capture
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito ( ; , ), was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 unti ...
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Drvar
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, Yugoslavia in May 1944
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