Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket

The tank battle of Kamenetz -Podolsky, also known as the Hube boiler was to escape a Wehrmacht company on the German Eastern Front in the German -Soviet war with the goal of the destruction of the encircled German troops by the Red Army.

During the Soviet offensive operation Khmelnitsky Chernovtsy March 4, 1944 to April 17, 1944 and the offensive operation Uman - Botosani from March 5, 1944 to April 17, 1944, the troops of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Front of the Red Army encircled Generaloberst stroke 1. Panzer Army north of the river Dniester. The 1st Panzer Army with approximately 200,000 troops was (Ukrainian Kamjanez - Podilskyj ) included the city of Kamenetz -Podolsk in western Ukraine. The Soviet front was only 250 km further at Tarnopol to a halt. Under the command of Colonel General Hube escaped most of the German troops using a wandering vessel of Soviet containment in the west. The battle is still regarded as a strategic teaching example to illustrate the outbreak of large-scale armored associations from a military encirclement.

The heavy tank battalion 503 was in February 1944 56 Tiger with the troops. When laying by Proskurov ( 1st-2nd March 1944. Proskurov the Czernowitz - operation began on March 4, 1944) it took over seven Tigers of the s.Pz.Abt. 506 From the boiler only seven escaped tiger; they were at the s.Pz.Abt in May 1944. 509 delivered.