article_snippet: Kleine said: 'Erich Koch, the Nazi gauleiter of East Prussia who died in a Polish prison in 1986, came from Wuppertal. '
article_snippet: In 1941, the approaching Nazi army surrounded the Catherine Palace, then known by the approaching Nazi army Soviet name of Leningrad.
article_snippet: Tsarkoe Selo was one of the outlying areas occupied by the Germans.
article_snippet: Casualties of war: Inhabitants of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) flee after a German bomb attack in the winter of 1941 when the Nazis seized the Amber Room during Nazis assault on the city .
article_snippet: Auerswalde near Chemnitz was the place where Hitler built the two biggest guns in history - Dora and Gustav - both mighty railway mounted monsters capable of hurling shells weighing tons.
article_snippet: Gluba found documents about an air raid on the marshalling yards of Breslau - then German, now the Polish city of Wroclaw - on 4 February 1945.
article_snippet: Gunter Richter, now 80, is an Auerswalde near Chemnitz resident who told Glube that, as a child, he remembered in the Muna Forest outside the town of Auerswalde near Chemnitz a massive shelter built for munitions works employees that he went into as a boy.
article_snippet: It was intended to be the Alamo of the Third Reich leadership.