Bunker Museum

Many years have passed since the war, but the inhabitants of the houses located next to the ?bunker of Lasch? claim that they used to see a certain silhouette, dressed in a gray Wehrmach overcoat, appeared from it. The silhouette goes back and forth along the university buildings, as if deciding whether it is time to surrender to save the lives of the remaining defenders of Koenigsberg.

Sometimes the General calls the Governor from the bunker and says: "I am ready to surrender."

"Stop fooling me! - screams the Governor. ? Well, for crying out loud!"

Reconstruction of historical events that occurred in the bunker on April 9, 1945.

Soviet officer from the group of Colonel Yanovsky P.G. parliamentaire hands over the text of address of the Commander of the 3rd Belorussian front Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasilevsky A.M. to the German radio operator with a proposal to stop resistance and surrender.

German radio operator prepares to transmit the text of this address to still the defending German troops. That is how the German garrison was preparing to full and complete capitulation.

Results of assault of Koenigsberg.

From 6 to April 10 more than 92,000 German soldiers and officers were taken prisoners.

During the same period 42,000 Germans soldiers and officers were killed in action.

The front's troops captured the following booty:

field guns - 2030

tanks and self-propelled guns - 89

mortars ? 1652,

machine guns - 4673,

armored personnel carriers - 119,

armored trains - 2

vehicles - 8560.

For General Otto von Lasch the end was not so bad.

After the surrender he spent 10 years in camps and then returned to live out his remaining days in Germany.

A column of German prisoners of war. East Prussia, 1945.

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Brave Soviet soldiers. They gave us life.

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The Nazis turned the East Prussia into a huge concentration camp

War everyday life of the Soviet aviation. 1945.

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The Caucasian auxiliary troops serving in the Wehrmacht. September, 1942.

Erich Koch, Gauleiter of the East Prussia, in the estate Gross Friedrichsberg. East Prussia, end of 1930s.

After the war, he spent his life in a Polish prison and lived up to the perestroika-collapse of the USSR (1986).

In this photo Eric is obviously imitating his boss.

Ruined Koenigsberg.

In our time, the U.S. Air Force pilots are very fond of such as photos from all parts of the world.

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