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The Death of East Prussia - War and Revenge in Germany's Easternmost Province (Paperback)
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The Death of East Prussia - War and Revenge in Germany's Easternmost Province (Paperback)
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The Death of East Prussia describes the immense collateral damage
inflicted on East Prussia resulting from Hitler's war of
annihilation in Poland and the Soviet Union. The Red Army sought
revenge when it invaded the province in the winter of 1945.
Thousands of Germans tried to flee rampaging Soviet soldiers who
raped, assaulted, murdered and pillaged with abandon. A wealth of
eyewitness testimony provides gripping, personal narratives of the
indomitable will of the East Prussians to survive under horrific
conditions. The end was foreshadowed when the wartime Allies
divided East Prussia between Russia and Poland and approved the
expulsion of all East Prussians. Now outcasts in their own
homeland, many succumbed to starvation and disease as virtual slave
laborers for their new masters, and the survivors were expelled in
the late 1940s. This ethnic cleansing of East Prussia was the price
paid for Nazi Germany's own ethnic cleansing of Eastern Europe.
Complementing this tale of human suffering is an historical
analysis showing that geography, revenge and political calculation
can explain the extinction of East Prussia.
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