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Зверства казаков в Восточной Пруссии в августе 1914
By 25 August, Knox was with Samsonov in Neidenburg. He found the town much changed since his visit in 1911, its main square scarred by burned or damaged houses. The fighting devastated the eastern part of East Prussia; fields were churned up, houses wrecked, a harvest either left to rot or seized for troops and much damage caused by German and Russian artillery. More than a hundred thousand East Prussian families lost everything; thirty-nine towns and nineteen hundred villages were more than 50 per cent destroyed; forty thousand buildings were left in ruins; farms suffered devastating losses of livestock. Over half a million people from the country districts took refuge in Königsberg; in August 1914 some twelve thousand of these fled west by sea to Danzig, Pomerania or Brandenburg. Civilians suspected of spying were shot by the Russians; thousands were sent over the frontier as prisoners, often to Siberia, from which many never returned. The Cossacks ransacked parts of the country.
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