Nicolas Cinquini

Kolberg, which had been designated a Festung—a fortified village under a no-surrender order that required special permission to surrender—was taken over by the Red Army on this day eight decades ago.

In the meantime, fighting continued in Koenigsberg’s southwest suburbs [end]

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