Germany's War - East Prussia (1/4)

Germany's War - East Prussia
This documentary tells the story of the advance in to East Prussia by the Soviet army, using interviews with the participants.

Playlist for whole episode: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD2A8432C563A7546
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d56H9ZKLHJk
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CILVYcAfJ4o
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p5hl_vWYHk
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0WhPewsmcM

Also in this series:

Air War over Germany: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1D17398D658FCFB5

Advance to River Oder: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0E3D9CB797C76229

Hitler's last army: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL55CDCA1B8CF1EEB3

Firestorm: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF13842F60740D468

Visit my YouTube-channel for more documentaries about the Second World War, First World War and more or visit my website at http://sites.google.com/site/thegermanwarfiles/ for a better organized and easier access to all my YouTube documentaries and their descriptions.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Documentary
• Second
• World
• War
• Germany
• Russia
• Defeat
• 1945
• East
• Prussia
• Konigsberg

[Brera011]

At 0028. Eastern Prussia, now eastern Poland ... Shouldn't that be Western Poland?

[GermanWarFiles]

@Brera011

No, the eastern half of Poland the Soviets invaded in 1939 was never returned to Poland. They got a piece of Germany in return. So in essence, Poland shifted to the west.

[alanheath]

Here we see the bridge at Dirschau (Tczew) - occasionally suggested as one of the places where the first shots of WW2 were fired.

To get across the Vistula here the family would have had to have gone through Soviet lines given that they had already said that Elbląg was in Soviet hands.

[itchytoke]

The man beside Hitler at 3:00 looks kinda like Alec Salmond

[thor1963123]

the russians got away with the bad things they did .

[thor1963123]

now its all in the eu.

[Notanga0920]

@alanheath After the WW2 government considered the fact of attaching the East Prussia (Kaliningrad Oblast) to Lithuania, but Stalin had forbidden it. Also, around the 1965 the right to this territory was questioned again, sadly it remained only a question. In addition, there were created even some maps with Lithuanian names of towns and villages.

[alanheath]

@Notanga0920 I did not want to go into the rights and wrongs of it - I was pointing out to the former idiot who claimed that Lithuania occupied all of East Prussia!

[Notanga0920]

@alanheath 'Lithuania occupied Klaipedia - yes'

But you have to remeber one fact - in the middle-ages it was a part of the Kingdom of Lithuania, so I might say that we took what was ours, though lost long ago...

[sanjosesharks65]

@kokosz33

ok good cause I was going to do that but recently I've been dreading that future duel.