I'm with you on the navigation issue - it just doesn't ring true (although I wouldn't be totally surprised - I've seen some absolutely WOEFUL nav skills over the years!)
To my mind there has to be another explanation, some mission they were tasked with but was kept secret from the bulk of the men, or they were chased there by overwhelming force, or something more fantastic (but at least more believable).
Perhaps the 8th's real mission was to seize and hold Estonia's oil shade and a nearby port. With the rest of the German III Army holding northern Poland and the Baltic coast, the resulting synthetic crude could be shipped fairly safely to the rest of Nato.
Hmm, maybe this shale was the actual objective of the whole offensive?
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