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...Prussia. The Germans admitted evacuating Tauroggen last week, as General Ivan Chernyakhovsky's army, which had long threatened the province from the east, now crowded close in the north. Red bombs rained on the East Prussian junction town of Tilsit, whose railroads lead to Insterburg and Königsberg...
East Prussia, bloodied by history, was a fitting arena for the first real battles on German soil in World War II. But it did not seem so to the Germans in East Prussia. They, according to reports in Stockholm, exhibited "the highest state of alarm." At Königsberg the Nazis were said to be dismantling the port installations. The wife of Gauleiter Erich Koch departed for the German interior with three truckloads of furniture...
Chernyakovsky was a good bet to be the first Russian commander to reach the sea, at Königsberg or Memel, and to cut off General Georg von Lindemann's Sixteenth and Eighteenth Armies (30 to 40 divisions) in the north. Up to this week they had made no visible move to withdraw...
...Countries; over Czecho-Slovakia, East Prussia, the Baltic seacoast, southern and northwestern Ger many; over factories making planes, tanks, dyes, submarine parts, aircraft motors, artillery, ammunition. Russian four-motored bombers roared out of the dark ness over Poland to batter the power stations and railroad centers at Königsberg, in East Prussia; and the machine-tool plants, warehouses, chemical factories and shipyards at Danzig on the Baltic...
...went to Yale. He taught at Yale. He died in New Haven (1903). He never married. Save for a brief period of postgraduate work in France and Germany, he saw little more of the world outside than Philosopher Immanuel Kant (who never left his native Königsberg). "His life was nothing but self and science and then he tore the self away...