Word: nigsberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backbone of home defense, are not so ready to laugh. The Volksstürmer have done an immense amount of work on Germany's border fortifications. The East Prussian Gauleiter boasted that in 100 days they had dug enough antitank ditches to reach from Königsberg to Lisbon. By taking over garrison duties in the rear, the Volkssturm releases better soldiers for the front lines. Whether fighting or digging, they receive Wehrmacht pay and equal allowances for dependents...
...representative of the, Lublin Committee, writing in Pravda, claimed frontiers up to the Oder River for the new Poland.) Churchill did not say who was to get the bigger part of East Prussia, including the port and fortress of Königsberg, to which the Russians have staked claims...
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...
...this dire emergency, Hitler appointed his tank expert, Chief of Staff Heinz Guderian, to take command of the whole Russian front from the Baltic to Yugoslavia, Guderian conferred in Königsberg (according to the Soviet news agency Tass) with fat Hermann Göring, who had a personal reason for fury. The Russians had seized Göring's favorite hunting lodge in the East Prussian deer forest of Rominter Heide, after scattering the SS regiment on guard there. They found the lodge's wine cellar well stocked with French champagne, the study table piled with topographical...
Head-On for Königsberg. Last week there was little news of the attacks from the north and the south. But by Berlin's own admission Chernyakhovsky's armor, smashing head-on toward Insterburg and Königsberg. the capital, was making progress. With what Berlin called fighting "at white heat" the attack from the east swept over the border town of Eydtkau...