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Berlin would be defended stone by stone: "We cannot let Breslau and Königsberg put us to shame, much less Warsaw, Leningrad and Moscow...
Through the smoke the Russians could see the great Gothic tower of Königsberg's Schloss. For nearly seven centuries the Schloss (castle) had stood as a symbol of Prussianism. There the Teutonic Order had been nurtured. The tower reared 277 feet, a monument to the Junker caste that was the heart and mind of German militarism...
Last week the Third White Russian Army of young (37) General Ivan Chernyakhovsky rolled up to Königsberg's suburbs on two sides. From four miles out the Russians could hear the blasts as the Germans set off demolition charges, destroyed whole sections of the city (normal...
Shortening the Line. But Russian power would not be denied. By this week the Red Armies had accomplished what no Junker could have believed possible. Rokossovsky, striking swiftly, enveloped the Germans with the bear's left arm. It reached the Baltic 43 miles southwest of Königsberg, enfolded Elbing, created a pocket 85 miles deep. The Russians had done another impossible: they had broken through the "impregnable" German defenses in the Masurian Lakes area, had narrowed the pocket to an average width of 40 miles. Inside was what remained of a Wehrmacht force of some...
None of this would be easy. There was every indication that the Germans would try to hold Königsberg, Elbing, Danzig, Gdynia from the Russians-as they were denying Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, Bordeaux to the Allies in the west...