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OPERATION HANNIBAL TO RESCUE TRAPPED SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS
ByNorm Haskett January 23, 2026 Reading Time: 9 minutes

Gotenhafen, German-Occupied Poland • January 23, 1945 On this date in 1945 German Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz launched Operation Hannibal, a seaborne evacuation or, as Germans called it, a rescue operation (Rettungsaktion) of well over a million people trapped by war in Latvia, East Prussia, and German-occupied Poland. Mounted by naval, merchant marine, and civilian vessels,…

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SOVIET ARMY SETS STAGE FOR 1945 ASSAULT ON BERLIN
ByNorm Haskett October 16, 2025 Reading Time: 8 minutes

East Prussia, Germany • October 16, 1944 In the summer of 1944 Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany was knocked off balance by one-two punches delivered almost simultaneously by the Western Allies’ invasion of Northwestern France, codenamed Operation Overlord (June–August 1944), and the Soviet Union’s offensive, Operation Bagration (June–August 1944), which began with the reconquest of Belorussia…

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