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The Thrill of Amber – Germany’s Historical East – A Plea for Humanity

... arrived in Swinemünde and from there we went to Güstrow by train… Now I want to close and let’s hope that the war will end soon. (Güstrow, February 10, 1945, excerpt from a letter from my mother Eva-Maria to her father Paul Kuhrau.) The conquest of East Prussia Immeasurable suffering and misery all over the world. That describes the years 1944/1945, which were certainly among the most terrible times in human history. And in one of the harshest winters in East Prussia, a traumatic chapter of German ...