Word: prussia
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...troops of the victorious Red armies rushed on toward the frontiers of East Prussia, German language primers were issued to them...
...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...
First to the Sea? In front of East Prussia and of Warsaw to the south, the Germans had four main bastions: Kaunas and Grodno on the Niemen River, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk. Brilliant young General Ivan Chernyakovsky reached the Niemen on a 75-mile front, forced several crossings, established bridgeheads on the west bank, attacked Grodno. Early this week his army was joined there by that of General Georg Zakharov, and Grodno fell...
...flanking movement northwest of the city sent some units to the smaller town of Gozha. On this front they were only 40 miles from East Prussia proper, only two miles from the Suwalki triangle, which the Germans annexed to East Prussia...
...snuffed out the last enemy resistance in Vilna, Chernyakovsky had won Moscow's maximum victory salute: 24 rounds from 324 guns. The Germans had desperately wanted to hold Vilna, not only to keep open the exit gate from the Baltic areas, but as a shield for East Prussia. They held out longer there under attack than anywhere else in this offensive-but only for five days. Even after the city was completely surrounded, the Germans reinforced their garrison by dropping paratroopers...