Narrow Escapes of WWII season 1 episode 11

Air Date: 2015-05-24

Duration: 60 min

Genre: Documentary   War   Politics

Evacuation in the Baltic

As the war enters its final months, the nearly 2 million Germans living in East Prussia flee an advancing Red Army no longer distinguishing between German soldiers and civilians. Hundreds of thousands make for the Baltic ports--the start of the single biggest evacuation of WWII.