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Location of Metgethen, showing the Königsberg defenses and the Soviet attack of 6–9 April 1945. During the Battle of Königsberg in 1945, Soviet forces attacking from the north of the Samland peninsula, reached the Vistula Lagoon to the west of Königsberg on January 30, taking Metgethen in the process, a village with a railway station.
Metgethen was incorporated into the city of Königsberg in 1939; [7] to the east of Metgethen was the quarter Moditten. During World War II, the architect Alfred Fiedler of Tilsit, an ally of Erich Koch, constructed a cement factory in Metgethen which used Ukrainian forced labor to make anti-air defense. [5]
Capturing the town of Metgethen, the unit opened the way for the 5th Panzer Division to join with Gollnick's forces near the town of Gross Heydekrug the next day. This action solidified the German defence of the area until April, re-opening the land route from Königsberg to Pillau, through which supplies could be delivered by ship and the ...
the Metgethen massacre: mass murder and rape of 32-3,000 (German claim) German citizens by Red Army soldiers; the Nemmersdorf massacre: mass murder and rape of ~74 German citizens (as well as ~50 French and Belgian POWs) by the Red Army's 2nd Guards Tank Corps; the Treuenbritzen massacre: mass murder of German citizens by Soviet soldiers
Königsberg City Archive is located in the Town Hall (approximate date). 1734 – 8 August: Polish King Stanisław Leszczyński stops in the city. [24] 1735 – Math problem "Seven Bridges of Königsberg" presented. 1736 26 January: Stanisław Leszczyński signed an act of renunciation of the Polish crown in the city. [25]
The Nemmersdorf massacre was a civilian massacre perpetrated by Red Army soldiers in the late stages of World War II. Nemmersdorf (present-day Mayakovskoye , Kaliningrad Oblast ) was one of the first prewar ethnic German settlements to fall to the advancing Red Army during the war.
Part of German evacuation from Central and Eastern Europe during World War II East Prussia (red) was separated from Germany and Prussia proper (blue) by the Polish corridor in the inter-war era. The area, divided between the Soviet Union and Poland in 1945, is 340 km east of the present-day Polish–German border.
A number of reports about German troop movements reached Allied high command, including details of the identity and location of German armoured formations. The UK Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park which monitored and decrypted German radio traffic produced intelligence reports codenamed Ultra .