Heydekrug
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Heydekrug may refer to places in former East Prussia:
- ŠilutėŠiluteŠilutė is a city in the south of the Klaipėda County, Lithuania. The city was part of the Klaipėda Region and ethnographic Lithuania Minor. Šilutė was the interwar capital of Šilutė County and is currently the capital of Šilutė district municipality.-Name:...
, now Lithuania, the site of Stalag Luft VIStalag Luft VIStalag Luft VI was a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II located near the town of Heydekrug, Memelland . It was the northernmost POW camp within the confines of the German Reich.-Camp history:...
- a World War II German allied aircrew POW camp - Places now in Kaliningrad OblastKaliningrad OblastKaliningrad Oblast is a federal subject of Russia situated on the Baltic coast. It has a population of The oblast forms the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, but it has no land connection to the rest of Russia. Since its creation it has been an exclave of the Russian SFSR and then the...
, Russia, the sites of the Battle of KönigsbergBattle of KönigsbergThe Battle of Königsberg , was one of the last operations of the East Prussian Offensive during World War II. In four days of violent urban warfare, Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front and the 3rd Belorussian Front captured the city of Königsberg...
at the Vistula Lagoon to the west of Königsberg:- Groß-Heydekrug (now Vzmorye)
- Klein-Heydekrug (probably CherepanovoCherepanovoCherepanovo is a town and the administrative center of Cherepanovsky District of Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, located southeast of Novosibirsk. Population:...
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