Gdańsk 1945 year described by the Germans.

Generalizations are always harmful and mislead. There were also a lot of men and women in NSDAP, who, faithful to their ideals, They sacrificed themselves in the service of the general. The decisive factor, however, was the behavior of leading personalities with Gauleiter Forster at the forefront. I had the opportunity to watch him closely on Heli, because his special train stood directly in front of our bunker and each time, When the peninsula was shelled or raid came, Gauleiter appeared in our bunker “to ask about the situation”. When Gotenhafen became a real hell, and desperate masses of refugees tried to use every opportunity, to leave the country by ship or boat, Gauleiter Forster managed to rent such a vehicle for himself, to transport your furniture! 1) However, a young jacket officer refused to follow the order of Gauleiter. Forster was outraged by this refusal and declared, that the jacket officer will understand, What does it mean to rebel against him, Gauleiterowi.
When the Fuehrer command was announced on the radio: “Each gauleiter fights to the end in his gau”, Gauleiter explained to General Specht, that his Gau is now completely involved in warfare, that there is no task here and that he would ask Fuehrer to send him with a special mission to southern Germany, where is it actually at home. General Specht was so indignant, that he answered a gauleiter: “Unlike the Lord, Mr. Gauleiter, We still have a lot to do here, not only in terms of transport of refugees. You let me go back to my work!”
Relations between NSDAP and Wehrmacht were also heavily strained by the werewolf's propaganda and the activities of national -socialist officers leading, who were responsible for the army and population morale. At the beginning of a large avenue in Gdańsk, soldiers with posters were hung “I am more sprayed” (I am a regular soldier), that were to be repellent. For that, where traffic jams formed on the streets, hopelessly clogged with Havan and carts with refugees, They were caught and hung “culprit”. Ci, who evaded participation in Volkssturm, They were treated as “traitors of the German nation” and deserters. But the leading figures of NSDAP did not even think about joining Volksturm; Everyone was sure, that at the last minute they will receive a place on the ship, who will take them free. At the beginning of April, Gauleiter presented to General Specht on Heli a list containing a whole series of leading NSDAP personalities from Forsster, which specht was supposed to spend “permission to leave the country”. This was required by the military regulations in force at that time. Outside was said, that all these people are unable to fight. In fact, almost all of them were efficient men, including six young HJ leaders, some of which served as officers.
werewolf” He was definitely rejected by Wehrmacht and described as a crime against his own nation, Because the sniper tactic he propagated had to lead to retaliation from our opponents. NSFO.2) from our staff, young teacher, openly declared: “When several German hostages are killed in retaliation for Werwolf's deeds, Then even those, who are opposed to NSDAP, will understand, that they have no choice and have to join.
As long as we still had ports in Gdynia and Gdańsk under control, Refugees were transported on large ships, which were affected by the ports themselves. The food on board was good and abundant, Accommodation appropriate to the circumstances: in cabins intended for an on -board officer, for example, There were eight, ten, so, fourteen people and enjoyed, that at least they could save their lives. After losing the ports, Refugees were maintained mainly on the Nickelswalde section – Schiewenhorst at the mouth of the Vistula and was transported to Hela. They usually spent a few days on an open port water, By incurring some of them heavy losses as a result of raids and artillery shelling from the coast, until until, when they could be transported by Sybel ferries to anchored transporters 2-3 km behind Hela. Multiple raids were also targeted at these transports. Hela was finally filled with people, that the Soviet long -range operating could be combed the peninsula without any obstacles and always hit. The food situation at Heli was critical, But there was no disaster, bo m.in. Several thousand horses were compacted and eaten.

It will never be possible to get a reliable image of this, How many refugees were killed in the region of Gdańsk-Gdynia and on Heli as a result of enemy's actions or the hardships of escape. After the occupation of Gdańsk by the Russians, Especially the women there for many weeks dealt with the burying of human corpses and animal carrion. Rape and plunder were commonplace. Hope, that the winners will treat Gdańsk and Gdańsk residents differently due to the Masonic past, turned out to be illusory. A large number of Gdańsk residents, who definitely rejected national socialism and believed in the promises of hostile radio propaganda, that nothing will happen to them, She took her life, shocked by a cruel disappointment, what happened to them.