In the Second World War, Pozna? was a key river crossing and
railway junction on the Polish-German border. When the alarm was
given indicating the Red Army's approach in January 1945, the
city's 80-100,000 German civilians were speedily evacuated, leaving
a garrison of some 15,000 men, mostly poorly-armed infantry, to
face the rigours of a siege conducted by a massively superior and
ruthless enemy anxious to acquire this transport centre, which was
vital for the advance on Berlin. This is the account of Eastern
Front veteran Richard Siegert, the gunner and later commander of
the defenders' sole Tiger tank. Since the death of the driver in a
futile attempt to escape from a PoW camp in Russia just after the
end of the war, Siegert is the only survivor of that crew able to
pass its record on to posterity. His account details how the crew
fought gallantly against impossible odds, even when the Tiger was
immobilised and could only act as a stationary anti-tank gun post
or pillbox during the last heroic days' fighting for the citadel.
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