Ostpreussen 1945: Die deutsche Perspektive | East Prussia 1945: from the German Perspective
Volume 18 (2009): Antrojo pasaulinio karo pabaiga Rytų Prūsijoje: faktai ir istorinės įžvalgos = End of the Second World War in East Prussia: Facts and Historical Perception, pp. 109–126
Pub. online: 8 September 2009
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Published
8 September 2009
8 September 2009
Abstract
The paper gives an overview of military developments on the final stage of Second World War in the East Prussia territory. The events in this area had been sticked in collective German memory as an Apocalypse. The extensive crimes committed by the conqueror, the motives for the mass criminality in East Prussia are examined as well. These events left a collective trauma in the culture of German remembrance, but the consequences for the Soviet Union were also negative.