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Heydekrug may refer to places in former East Prussia:

  • Šilutė, now Lithuania, the site of Stalag Luft VI - a World War II German allied aircrew POW camp
  • Landkreis Heydekrug: Former district of East Prussia until 1945
  • Places now in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, the sites of the Battle of Königsberg at the Vistula Lagoon to the west of Königsberg:
    • Groß-Heydekrug (now Vzmorye)
    • Klein-Heydekrug (probably Cherepanovo)

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Heydekrug

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Heydekrug may refer to places in former East Prussia: Šilutė, now Lithuania, the site of Stalag Luft VI - a World War II German allied aircrew POW camp...

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Landkreis Heydekrug

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Landkreis Heydekrug (1818–1945) was an administrative territorial entity of East Prussia, located in Lithuania Minor. It was part of Regierungsbezirk...

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Vzmorye

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Vzmorye (Russian: Взмо́рье, German: Groß Heydekrug, Polish: Zajazdowo) is a settlement under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of Svetly in...

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East Prussia

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1.0% 185 0.4% Gumbinnen Gumbinnen 50,918 50,703 99.6% 21 0.0% 21 0.0% Heydekrug Gumbinnen 43,268 19,124 44.2% 35 0.1% 23,279 53.8% Landkreis Insterburg...

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List of cities and towns in East Prussia

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Kaliningrad Heilsberg Heilsberg Lidzbark Warmiński Warmia-Masuria Heydekrug Landkreis Heydekrug 4 836 Šilutė Klaipėda County (Lithuania) Hohenstein Osterode...

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Prussian Lithuanians

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by 12,330 and 23,058 Prussian Lithuanians from the districts of Memel, Heydekrug, Tilsit and Ragnit. In 1921, the French administration made a survey in...

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Stalag Luft III

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escaper - attempted escape from Stalag Luft III - later transferred to Heydekrug - believed the 'scrounger' character in the film played by James Garner...

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Metgethen massacre

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a railway station. After dark, they further advanced westward to Groß-Heydekrug. German forces recaptured Metgethen on 19 February in a successful bid...

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German cruiser Admiral Scheer

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provided artillery support, targeting Soviet positions near Peyse and Gross-Heydekrug. The German attack temporarily restored the land connection to Königsberg...

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Macikai POW and GULAG Camps

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Stalag 331, a POW camp. Later, it was renamed Stalag 1C Heydekrug, later still, Stalag Luft VI Heydekrug. First, the camp was used to hold Polish prisoners...

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Herbert Schernus

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Kölner Rundfunkchor from 1962 to 1989. Schernus was born in Wießen, Kreis Heydekrug, now Vyžiai, Lithuania. He studied conducting and composition at the Musikhochschule...

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Bill Ash

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when other ranks were being transferred from Sagan to Stalag Luft VI, Heydekrug, Ash changed his identity and accompanied them. Under his direction a...

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Samlandic

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Westsamländisch and Eastern Low Prussian. Samlandic was spoken around Neukuhren and Heydekrug. Westsamländisch has, in contrast to the remainder of Samlandic, for (I)...

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Lithuania Minor

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and Tilžė (Tilsit). Other towns include Ragainė (Ragnit), Šilokarčema (Heydekrug), renamed to Šilutė, Gumbinė (Gumbinnen), Įsrutis (Insterburg), Stalupėnai...

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German exonyms

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Saugen Saugos Lithuanian Šiauliai Schaulen Šiauliai Lithuanian Šilutė Heydekrug Šilutė Lithuanian Tauragė Tauroggen Tauragė Lithuanian Ukmergė Wilkomir...

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Hermann Sudermann

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and novelist. Sudermann was born at Matzicken, a village to the east of Heydekrug in the Province of Prussia (now Macikai, in southwestern Lithuania), close...

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Wolf children

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of Tilsit on the crossroad of A 216 Tauroggen-Tilsit with A 226 from Heydekrug there is a memorial for Wolf children ("Wolfskinder-Denkmal"). The goal...

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Cornell Borchers

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Ingrid Bergman in mid-1950s reviews. Borchers was born in Šilutė (German: Heydekrug), Klaipėda Region (German: Memelland), Lithuania in a German either Prussian...

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Social Democratic Party of the Memel Territory

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four district organizations (Kreisverbände): Memel-Stadt, Memel-Land, Heydekrug and Pogegen. The social base of the party differed significantly between...

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