Gebirgstruppe Friedrich Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach, from 11 April 1945 Generalleutnant Erpo von Bodenhausen 205. Infanterie-Division – Generalmajor Ernst Biehler, from 15 November 1944 Generalmajor Karl-Hans Giese 225. Infanterie-Division – Generalleutnant Walter Risse 11. Infanterie-Division – Generalleutnant Hellmuth Reymann, from 18 November 1944 Generalleutnant Gerhard Feyerabend 14. Panzer-Division – Generalmajor Oskar Munzel, from 25 November 1944 Generalmajor Martin Unrein, from 19 February 1945 Oberst Friedrich-Wilhelm Jürgen, from 22 March 1945 Oberst Paul Lüneburg, from 25 March 1945 Oberst Karl-Max Gräßel Security Divisions 52nd Security Division : Festung Libau – Generalleutnant Albrecht Digeon von Monteton 201st Security Division – Generalmajor Anton Eberth 207th Security Division – only Staff Luftwaffe Jagdgeschwader 54 – Oberst Dietrich Hrabak Marine 9. Marine-Sicherungsdivision 1. Minensuchflottille 3. Minensuchflottille 25. Minensuchflottille 31. Minensuchflottille 1. Räumbootsflottille – Kapitänleutnant Carl Hoff 17. Räumbootsflottille 3. Vorpostenflottille 9. Vorpostenflottille 17. Vorpostenflottille 3. Sicherungsflottille 14. Sicherungsflottille 13. Landungsflottille 21. Landungsflottille 24. Landungsflottille 3. U-Jagdflottille 11. U-Jagdflottille 1. Schnellboot-Schulflottille 2. Schnellboot-Schulflottille 3. Schnellboot-Schulflottille Soviet Order of Battle 1st Baltic Front (Army General Ivan Bagramyan) 51st Army (Army General Yakov Kreizer) 6th Guards Army (Colonel General Ivan Chistyakov) 4th Shock Army (Army General Pyotr Malyshev) 42nd Army (Lieutenant General Vladimir Petrovich Sviridov) 1st Shock Army (Lieutenant General Vladimir N. Razuvaev) 10th Guards Army (Lieutenant General Mikhail Kazakov) Historiography Soviet and Russian accounts The First Courland Battle was intended to destroy German forces. After that failure, official accounts ignore Courland, stating only that the Soviet goal was to prevent the Germans from escaping. In this account, the Soviet actions in Courland were defensive blocking operations. Hostilities consisted of containing German breakout attempts, and the Red Army made no concerted effort to capture the Courland Pocket, which was of little strategic importance after the isolation of Army Group North, whereas the main offensive effort was required for the Vistula-Oder and Berlin Offensives. Soviet forces suffered correspondingly low casualties. The modern research of Grigoriy Krivosheev indicates a total of 160,948 Soviet casualties between 16 February and 8 May 1945": 30,501 "irrecoverable" and 130,447 "medical" losses. According to the Russian historian Aleksei Isaev, Courland was a peripheral front for both the Soviets and Germans. The Soviet goal was to prevent the German troops there from being transported by sea to reinforce the defense of Berlin. Soviet operations intended to further isolate and also destroy the enemy, but the strength of the attacking troops was too low to make any