Battleground Prussia Quotes

“Accounts vary as to the number of victims, but about 70 murdered civilians were reported to have been found in Nemmersdorf. There were about 95 more dead in the village of Schulzenwalde, some 8km to the southeast. By the scale of German atrocities in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, this was a modest total, but the sight of German women crucified along the road into Nemmersdorf shocked Jaedtke’s battle-hardened men and the other groups that retook the village. Whatever”
― Prit Buttar, Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45

“In addition to the Selbstschutz, several Einsatzkommandos (‘task forces’) were deployed in Poland. Their main task was to round up the Polish intelligentsia; it was the intention of Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, to decapitate Polish society, leaving a pliable mass of relatively unskilled workers for German exploitation. Lists of victims had been prepared in advance, and the Einsatzkommandos acted swiftly to execute their orders, in a very real sense. Their”
― Prit Buttar, Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45

“East Prussia had been a German region, in character at least, since the arrival of the Teutonic Knights in the area in 1226.”
― Prit Buttar, Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45