Fall of Hitler's Fortress City The Battle for Königsberg 1945

The Battle for Königsberg 1945

Nonfiction, History, Military, World War II
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Author: Isabel Denny ISBN: 9781612000589
Publisher: Casemate Publication: October 19, 2009
Imprint: Greenhill Language: English
Author: Isabel Denny
ISBN: 9781612000589
Publisher: Casemate
Publication: October 19, 2009
Imprint: Greenhill
Language: English

Heroism and tragedy in the East in the face of the Red Armys onslaught . . . In 1945 in the face of the advancing Red Army two and a half million people were forced out of Germanys most easterly province East Prussia and in particular its capital Königsberg. Their flight was a direct result of Hitlers ill-fated decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941. Now that the Germans were in retreat the horrors of Leningrad and Stalingrad were to be avenged by an army determined not only to invade Germany but to take over its eastern territories. The Russians launched Operation Bagration in June 1944 to coincide with the D-Day landings. As US and British forces pushed west the Russians liberated Eastern Europe and made their first attacks on German soil in the autumn of 1944. Königsberg itself was badly damaged by two British air raids at the end of August 1944 and the main offensive against the city by the Red Army began in January 1945. The depleted and poorly armed German Army could do little to hold it back and by the end of January East Prussia was cut off. The Russians exacted a terrible revenge on the civilian population who were forced to flee across the freezing Baltic coast in an attempt to escape. On 9 April the city surrendered to the Russians after a four-day onslaught. Through firsthand accounts as well as archival material The Fall of Hitlers Fortress City tells the dramatic story of a place and its people that bore the brunt of Russias vengeance against the Nazi regime.

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Heroism and tragedy in the East in the face of the Red Armys onslaught . . . In 1945 in the face of the advancing Red Army two and a half million people were forced out of Germanys most easterly province East Prussia and in particular its capital Königsberg. Their flight was a direct result of Hitlers ill-fated decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941. Now that the Germans were in retreat the horrors of Leningrad and Stalingrad were to be avenged by an army determined not only to invade Germany but to take over its eastern territories. The Russians launched Operation Bagration in June 1944 to coincide with the D-Day landings. As US and British forces pushed west the Russians liberated Eastern Europe and made their first attacks on German soil in the autumn of 1944. Königsberg itself was badly damaged by two British air raids at the end of August 1944 and the main offensive against the city by the Red Army began in January 1945. The depleted and poorly armed German Army could do little to hold it back and by the end of January East Prussia was cut off. The Russians exacted a terrible revenge on the civilian population who were forced to flee across the freezing Baltic coast in an attempt to escape. On 9 April the city surrendered to the Russians after a four-day onslaught. Through firsthand accounts as well as archival material The Fall of Hitlers Fortress City tells the dramatic story of a place and its people that bore the brunt of Russias vengeance against the Nazi regime.

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