Word: gumbinnen
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Around Gumbinnen, the first sizable town on the rail line to Königsberg, Chern-yakhovsky ran into progressively stronger defenses-trenches, minefields, barbed wire. Every settlement was a fortress, every house and hillock a gun position. Heinrich Himmler's Home Army units were easily killed or captured, but the Wehrmacht traded punch for punch...
Beyond was the first big town in East Prussia, Gumbinnen, scene of the first World War I battle between Germans and Russians. Chernyakhovsky's left wing skirted the Rominter Heide, a deer forest once held sacred to Kaiser Wilhelm's royal hunting, captured Goldap 18 miles inside Germany...