So, East Prussia strengthened from different directions closed itself Pomorze and, hanging over Poland, covered the Berlin direction. Bridges on Vistula connected East Prussia to Pomorze, some have been constructed of them for a long time, some were under construction till last moment while our tankmen have not banished German sappers. At last, the bottom current of Vistula from the Danzig bay to Bromberga has been covered by a necklace of fortresses and tet-de-ponov {2} that transformed the bottom current of Vistula into exclusively strong boundary of defence. But all these constructions had not only defensive character. Enormous barracks and warehouses, repair factories and workshops are calculated on placing, equipment and a food of army weights, immeasurably big, than it was required for defence of East Prussia. Railways, especially frontier stations, their rail network also show on concentration preparation here the largest army weights. The motorway and highway network have been prepared for maneuver of these armies, a network of airdromes - for basing of weights of aircraft; ports in southern pool of Baltic sea prepared for maintenance of approach with the sea. So in new conditions East Prussia became strategic base, even more important, than earlier, base from which there were ways on the east - on Vilno - Minsk, through "Smolensk gate" to Moscow, on the north - through Baltic to Leningrad, on the south - to Warsaw. So under pink idyllic roofs from a tile with nests of storks predators so they lived on stone layings of the Middle Ages, on ferro-concrete of strengthenings, on the stupid traditions cultivated since the Middle Ages about our days above bred. [167] Germans were prepared for an attack to Poland and one of the main blows have put to it from East Prussia. On the same roads surrounded with trees armour weights of the German army that in June night 1941 with fire, a roar, shout to move to Moscow and Leningrad have concentrated.
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