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The Soviet forces took control of East Prussia only in May 1945. [citation needed] According to the West German Schieder commission, the civilian population of East Prussia at the beginning of 1944 was 2,653,000 [2] people. This accounting, which was based on ration cards, included air raid evacuees from western Germany and foreign workers.
From the Baltic coast, many soldiers and civilians were evacuated by ship in the course of Operation Hannibal. [79] [83] Between 23 January and 5 May 1945, up to 250,000 Germans, primarily from East Prussia, Pomerania, and the Baltic states, were evacuated to Nazi-occupied Denmark, [88] [89] based on an order issued by Hitler on 4 February 1945 ...
East Prussia [Note 1] was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945. Its capital city was Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad).
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On October 7, 1944, that area was the only part of East Prussia completely evacuated. [37] On October 16, 1944, the Red Army reached German territory for the first time in World War II in the southern part of East Prussia near Gumbinnen, encountering German civilians and committing the Nemmersdorf massacre.
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