 Complete the following phrase:  With the Soviet army advancing from the east, in 1944 the German leader declared that Breslau was a strategic Festung, to be defended at any cost. Hildegard Maria and her parents fled when the civilian population was evacuated on a cold January day a couple of weeks before the Soviet forces arrived. The Rauchfuß family settled initially in . By 1947 those identified as ethnic Germans had been transported on to Leipzig, where the Rauchfuß family made their home. Despite having been liberated from Nazi control by US forces in April 1945, it had been 