CSPAN2 Book Discussion On A Mayors Life November 10, 2013
By any means possible. Especially for those civilians living in east prussia at the time. They knew exactly what awaited them when the soviets were approaching. They knew that the same acts of barbarism, the same a massacres would happen to them as had happened to the russians as the german army had advanced in its invasion of the soviet union if 1942. In 1942. However, they were under orders. They were not permitted to leave until the very end of january 45. The nazi government forbade anyone to leave, for to do so would have shown signs of defeatism and an acknowledgment that they were going...