Ketrzyn

Ketrzyn is a city in northeastern Poland with 28,351 populations. Situated inside the Warmian Masurian Voivodeship, Ketrzyn changed into previously in Olsztyn Voivodeship 1975 to 1998. It is the capital of Ketrzyn County. The town became named after Wojciech Ketrzynski in 1946. The original population of the location has been the Balt tribe of the Aesti, mentioned via Tacitus in his Germania. The metropolis, recognized in German as Rastenburg and in Polish as Rastembork, became set up in 1329 in the State of the Teutonic Knights and turned into granted town rights in 1357 by using Henning Schindekop. Rastenburg and the encircling district changed into the scene of the First World War's First Battle of the Masurian Lakes and Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes.

During the Second World War Adolf Hitler's wartime navy headquarters, the Wolfsschanze became inside the forest east of Rastenburg. The bunker becomes the placing for the failed assassination strives of the 20 July plot against Hitler. In 1945, the region suffered devastation from both the withdrawing Germans and advancing Soviets throughout the Vistula-Oder marketing campaign. Some ruins of the Wolfsschanze stay. The metropolis becomes a Wehrmacht garrison city until it became occupied via the Red Army on January 27, 1945.