 At this time the group still consisted of some 31 divisions of varying strength.After May 9, 1945 approximately 203,000 troops of Army Group Courland began moving to Soviet prison camps in the East.The Soviet Union reoccupied Latvia as part of the Baltic Offensive in 1944, a twofold military-political operation to rout German forces and the "liberation of the Soviet Baltic peoples" beginning in summer-autumn 1944, lasting until the capitulation of German and Latvian forces in Courland pocket in May 1945, and they were gradually absorbed into Soviet Union.