The retreating Wehrmacht had blown up the bridges over the Peene and Tollense rivers, which enclosed the town to the north, west and south, thus blocking the Red Army's advance and trapping the remaining civilians.
suicide | Mass | Mass media | Mass (liturgy) | mass media | mass | Mass Effect | Demmin | Suicide | Mass of Paul VI | Weapon of mass destruction | Tridentine Mass | pound (mass) | Mass production | Mass in B Minor | Mass in B minor | Mass Effect 3 | suicide attack | AJK, Mass Communication Research Centre | Suicide Commando | Suicide (band) | Nasty Suicide | mass surveillance | Mass Appeal | Indian Institute of Mass Communication | Great Mass in C minor | Pontifical High Mass | mass spectrometry | mass production | Mass (music) |