Калининград (Kiliningrad Königsberg), Калининградская область, Россия
| Latitude | 54°43′00″N |
| Longitude | 20°31′00″E |
| City | Калининград (Kiliningrad Königsberg) |
| State/ Province | Калининградская область |
| Country | Россия |
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Königsberg
Kaliningrad
Karaliaučius
Königsbarg
Kyonigsberg
Кёнигсберг
Królewiec
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In 1935, the Wehrmacht designated Königsberg the Headquarters for Wehrkreis I, (under the command of General der Artillerie Albert Wodrig) which originally took in all of East Prussia.
Königsberg was home to the I Infantry Corps, part of the pre-Nazi era Standing Army, and the 61st Infanterie Division, formed upon mobilization from reservists from East Prussia.
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On November 9, 1938, the New Synagogue of Königsberg, constructed in 1896, was destroyed during Kristallnacht.
After the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, Königsberg's Jews began to be deported to Maly Trostenets, Theresienstadt, and Auschwitz.
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On January 21, 1945, during the Red Army's East Prussian Offensive, Polish and Hungarian Jews from Seerappen, Jesau, Heiligenbeil, Schippenbeil, and Gerdauen (subcamps of Stutthof concentration camp) were gathered in Königsberg.
Up to 7,000 of them were forced on a death march to Sambia; those that survived were subsequently executed at Palmnicken.
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After Königsberg's conquest by the Red Army, the city was briefly Russified as Kyonigsberg (Кёнигсберг).
Königsberg was initially planned to rename the city Baltijsk.
On July 4, 1946, ,[49] it was renamed Kaliningrad, after the death of the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Mikhail Kalinin, one of the original Bolsheviks.
The German population was either deported to the Western Zones of occupied Germany or into Siberian labor camps, where about half of them perished of hunger or diseases, and the city's former population was entirely replaced with Soviet citizens.