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Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject History Europe - Germany - National Socialism, World War II, University of Edinburgh, course: Second World War in Europe - Konigsberg 1945, language: English, abstract: This dissertation strives to analyse the different causes as to why the city of Konigsberg held out for over two months before it was finally captured by the Red Army, in order to answer the question what determined the successfulness of the city as a Festung. The conclusion will expand the analyses to the Festung-strategy as a whole and to other fortress cities in Eastern...

In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory, focusing on the German units fighting in East Prussia and its capital Koenigsberg. He shows that the Wehrmacht's retreat into Germany, after three years of brutal fighting on the Eastern Front, contributed significantly to the spike of violence which occurred throughout the country immediately prior to defeat. Soldiers arriving with an...