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ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Tuesday, April 24, 1945

GERMANS FINALLY ORDER

EVACUATION ORDERS
Gauleiter Hopeful The fleeing of
Prussians.
Koch finally Refugees.
obliges Up to 14 million
Most Prussians had
already left before
citizens are moving
towards the ports of
the evacuation orders
Several months after Pillau and Gotenhafen were issued because
the Nazis issued on foot, on horseback, they feared that the
evacuation in October, or by car, while the Germans were losing
Nazi army retreats the war and were
Gauleiter Koch finally
towards Berlin to frantically trying to
ordered the East avoid the assault of the escape coming into
Prussian citizens to advancing Russian contact with the
evacuate. army. All citizens must Russians who had
provide their carried out atrocities
documentation to in Nemmersdorf.
officials in order to
proceed. .