Operation Eisbär

Operation Eisbär

Military history records three Operation Eisbär, all conducted by the Germans in 1943. The name means Polar bear in German.

They were:

  1. German evacuation of the French island of Corsica on 3 October, 1943.
  2. The German amphibious and airborne landings on the British and Italian-held Greek island of Kos on 3 October.
  3. An anti-partisan operation conducted in January 1943 in the area between Bryansk and Dmitriyev-Lgovsky, Russia.



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