Battle in the Baltics 1944-45: The Fighting for Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, a Photographic History Helion & Company 2009 | 112 | ISBN: 1906033331 | PDF | 38 “The Battle of the Baltics 1944 – 1945″ is an exclusive insight into the last frantic months of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1944 – 1945. From mid-August 1944 there was nothing but a drum-beat of defeats for the German Army as it fought to the grim death to try and hold back the overwhelming might of the Russians from reaching the borders of the Reich.