Fortress Fighting: The East Prussia Campaign

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Fortress Fighting: The East Prussia Campaign - 1944-45
With Bastiaan Willems
Part of our ongoing Eastern Front series on WW2TV
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Bastiaan Willems is Lecturer in the History of War in 20th Century Europe at Lancaster University. He studied in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Russia, and conducted research in Germany, Israel, Poland, Russia, and the United Kingdom. He completed his MSc "Second World War in Europe" (2012) and PhD in History (2017) at the University of Edinburgh.
His personal website is bpvwillems.com

This show is based on Bastiaan's first book “Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945,” which was published with Cambridge University Press in February 2021. The work was a study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory during the last year of the war, and focuses on the German units fighting in East Prussia and its capital Königsberg.
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Other WW2TV shows that cover the same battle:
Eastern Front Exodus: Allied POWs and the East Prussian Offensive
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German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad
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