In the final week of January 1945, Operation Hannibal began as the German military faced overwhelming Soviet forces closing ...

Alexey Pushkov made the statement at a roundtable discussion in the Federation Council dedicated to the victory over Nazi Germany as one of the pillars of Russia's international status ...

Just how terrible it would be was made clear when the Red Army entered East Prussia in force in mid-January 1945, fired up by propaganda issued by their political officers urging them ...

By 1945, they crossed the Rhine River into Germany ... Territories in the east side of the Oder-Neisse Line (e.g., East Prussia, Silesia) were ceded to Poland and the Soviet Union, and ethnic Germans ...

After the Battle of Konigsberg in April 1945, the region was surrendered to the Russians. Konigsberg would later be renamed Kaliningrad and East Prussia permanently annexed by Russia.

Hawes says over in the east, Prussia matched a German stereotype of ... After Germany's defeat in 1945, historical differences between the east and west were turbocharged when the country was ...

Reinhard Bundt left East Prussia for Lithuania after his home was ... after witnessing her grandmother succumb to starvation in 1945. After a brief return to Königsberg, Gisela journeyed to ...

which took place from July 17 to August 2, 1945, came to the following conclusions ... the Polish Republic and East Prussia. The Conference has agreed in principle to the proposal of the Soviet ...

Every shipwreck in this list killed more people than the September 11 attacks, and yet few people know about them. These were not legendary World War II battleships but humble cargo vessels ...

Mrs. McGrory worked as a Title Administrator and she was also the former co-owner of the King of Prussia Flower Shop ... Born in Bridgeport, PA on January 27, 1945, she was a daughter of the ...

Mr Plebanczyk, director of Mamerki Museum, said elderly visitors told him that way back in early 1945, they had seen ... and relocated to Königsberg in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia ...