Souce: Marvin Knock
Gebhard Filips Berends
Source: Author: Knock, Marvin, Title: "Knock Family," (Publication location: Sioux Fls., SD, Publisher: WorldConnect at RootsWeb.com, Publication date: xxxi Dec MMVIII), Repository: The Cloud
Link: https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=knock&id=I101494
"... Gebhard Filips BERENDS ... Sex: M Birth: 4 Mar 1924 in Backemoor, , Ostfriesland, Germany Death: 1945 in Heiligenbeil, , Ostfriesland, Germany Burial: 1945 Königsfehn, Kreis Leer, Ostfriesland, Germany ... Change Date: 31 Dec 2008 ...
Father: Hermann BERENDS b: 30 Dec 1885 in Duenebroek, , Kloster, Germany
Mother: Geertje Johanne VAN MARK b: 15 Nov 1897 in Einhaus, , , Germany"
Author: NN (anonymous), Title: "Heilingenbeil Pocket," (Publication location unknown, Publisher: military.wikia.com, Publication date: Nov MMXIII), Repository: The Cloud
Link: http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Heiligenbeil_Pocket
"Heiligenbeil Pocket
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
Soviet troops enter Frauenburg, 9 February (?) 1945
Date 26 January 1945 29 March 1945 Location East Prussia Result Soviet Victory
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80,000 killed 50,000 captured ... (According to Soviet information) ...
The Heiligenbeil Pocket or Heiligenbeil Cauldron (German language: Heiligenbeiler Kessel) was the site of a major encirclement battle on the Eastern Front during the closing weeks of World War II, in which the Wehrmacht's 4th Army was almost entirely destroyed during the Soviet Braunsberg Offensive Operation (13 March 1945 - 22 March 1945). The pocket was located near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia in eastern Germany (now Mamonovo, Kaliningrad Oblast), and the battle, part of a broader Soviet offensive into the region of East Prussia, lasted from 26 January 1945 until 29 March 1945.
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It is my hypothesis Gebhard's remains were buried near the battlefield, ergo, a monument at Königsfehn would be a cenotaph. - D.A. Navorska - xxx Dec MMXVIII - in proximo Grove, OK.
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