Title: The Fall of Hitler's Fortress City
Description: Heroism and tragedy in the East, in the face of the Red Army's onslaught . . .In 1945, in the face of the advancing Red Army, two and a half million people were forced out of Germany's most easterly province, East Prussia, and in particular its capital, Königsberg. Their flight was a direct result of Hitler's 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 Ju.
Subjects: World war, 1939-1945, soviet union, World War, 1939-1945 -- Russia (Federation) -- Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai͡a oblastʹ), World War, 1939-1945 -- Prussia, East (Poland and Russia), Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai͡a oblastʹ, Russia) -- History, Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) -- History, Europe -- East Prussia (Poland and Russia), Russia (Federation) -- Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai͡a oblastʹ), World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, russia (federation), Russia (federation), history, Poland, history