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Evacuation in the Baltic

S1 · E11 · 24 May 2015 · 1 hr 0 min

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As the war enters its final months, the nearly 2 million Germans living in East Prussia flee an advancing Red Army no longer distinguishing between German soldiers and civilians. Hundreds of thousands make for the Baltic ports--the start of the single biggest evacuation of WWII.