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Early Access: Operation Westwind - Breakout from Königsberg 1945 (Patreon)

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Operation Westwind: Breakout from Königberg '45

In this video Dr. Bastiaan Willems Postdoctoral Fellow at the University College London and I discuss Operation Westwind, which was a successful breakout from Königsberg towards the Festung Pillau in early 1945. We discuss how this was still possible in 1945 and also what the long-term results were. Cover Image: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-J28805 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J28805,_Ostpreu%C3%9Fen,_Volkssturmm%C3%A4nner_an_MG.jpg »» GET OUR BOOK «« » Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon, see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized » SOURCES « Willems, Bastiaan: Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2021. #OperationWestwind,#EastPrussia45,#Koenigsberg

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Cristián Frezza

That was fascinating, thank you very much! It was the same for me, I had only a very vague notion of these events prior to this.

Sean Tyson

On the one hand, this was an absolutely fascinating discussion of an operation of which people interested in WWII are unaware. I was appalled at the desertion of the civilians by the Wehrmacht, however. It seems to me that there is a pattern with authoritarian regimes that they have little or no concern for human life, even when it is the people that support it. I cannot imagine what it was like in Konigsberg once it fell to the Soviets. Life must have been brutal for those left inside.

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from what I remember the thesis of the book is that the soldiers were rather accustomed to don't care about civilians from fighting in the Soviet Union and when the war came to Germany they did not really adapt most of their habits.