In The Halberstadt General News’ extra edition from the 26th of August, 1915, the title reports ‘Brest-Litowsk Taken!’, which is a fortress in what is now Brest, Belarus. The article proclaims that “the fortress of Brest-Litowsk has fallen to advancing German troops. German and Austro-Hungarian troops stormed the city on its Western and Northern fronts and penetrated the inner defensive works during the night. This was the last of the Russians’ strongholds in Poland. Shortly thereafter, the defenders surrendered”. The retreating Russian army burnt the city to the ground, and so when delegates came to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litowsk in 1918, they were housed in temporary structures in the courtyards.
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