Saint-Nazaire pocket

The Saint-Nazaire Pocket (German: Festung St. Nazaire, French: Poche de Saint-Nazaire) was an Atlantic pocket that existed from August 1944 until 11 May 1945 and was formed by the withdrawal of German troops from Loire-Inférieure (now Loire-Atlantique) during the liberation of the department by the allied forces. It was centred around the port and the submarine base of Saint-Nazaire and extended to the east as far as Saint-Omer-de-Blain and from La Roche-Bernard in the north to Pornic in the south.

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Saint-Nazaire pocket ranks #2,353 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #174 of the 351 mapped in France. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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