In this video Dr. Bastiaan Willems Postdoctoral Fellow at the University College London and I discuss the war in East Prussia specifically in Königsberg in 1945. At this point of the war, the militarization of the German population reached a new level and it went "beyond the Volkssturm", now everyone was in some way involved in military service from kids to women. Cover image: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-J31317 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J31317,_Berlin,_Volkssturm,_Ausbildung.jpg »» GET OUR BOOK «« » Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon, see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized » SOURCES « Willems, Bastiaan: Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2021. #BeyondVolkssturm,#EastPrussia45,#TotalWar