Word: prussia
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...Lithuania, where they had held a stabilized line for months, the Germans suddenly caved in before a massive Soviet assault which carried most of the way to the Lithuanian coast and the north border of East Prussia...
...victory salute from 224 guns: the Red armies had jammed through for gains up to 60 miles on a 175-mile front. This week they had sent the Germans reeling back to within twelve miles of Memel on the sea, to within three miles of the northern East Prussia border. Credit went to Generals Ivan Bagramian and Ivan Chernyakhovsky, who figured much more prominently in the Eastern Front news last July than they have lately...
...real significance of the new offensive was that it marked the impending close of the Baltic campaign. Soon the Russians would have eight whole army groups north of the Carpathians with nothing left to attack but East Prussia and the line from that province through Warsaw to the upper Vistula-sectors which seemed long overdue for attention...
Clearly, the Nazis were more interested in delay than in evacuation. They knew that when Joseph Stalin's forces had finished their Baltic campaign, four whole army groups could bear down on East Prussia from the north. Though they admitted extensive "disengaging" movements, they showed some signs of preparing to fight for Riga like another Sevastopol or Brest. The forests and marshes around the city were strewn with mines, bristled with machine-gun nests...
...they had only a few more days left to fight outside the borders of the Reich. With Estonia and Latvia going and the larger part of Lithuania already gone, the Red Army would soon ring East Prussia around two-thirds of its perimeter...