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East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945.
East Prussia, former German province bounded, between World Wars I and II, north by the Baltic Sea, east by Lithuania, and south and west by Poland and the free city of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). After World War II its territory was divided between the Soviet Union and Poland.
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The evacuation of East Prussia was the movement of German civilian population and military personnel from East Prussia between 20 January and March 1945, that was initially organized and carried out by state authorities but quickly turned into a chaotic flight from the Red Army.
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Dec 13, 2021 · East Prussia was a province of Prussia, which was a federal state of the Weimar Republic. Beginning in 1933, they were provinces in the German Reich. "Prussia" was de facto not an administrative division of the Third Reich.
NARRATOR: At war’s end, the Allies decide to forcefully expel the remaining ethnic Germans from Pomerania, Silesia, East Prussia and the Sudetenland. This is how 14 million Germans lose their homeland, the consequences of a war that began on German soil.
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Nov 4, 2020 · When the Second World War in Europe came to a close Germany was facing one of the largest refugee crisis in history during the Soviet invasion of East Prussia. As the Soviets took East Prussia...
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Dec 8, 2020 · East Prussia (Ostpreußen), a former province of Prussia and the 2nd & 3rd German Empires (2. und 3. Deutsches Reichs), was located in extreme Northeast Germany (existed prior to 1945; it was dissolved in 1945). Historically, East Prussia was at the center of the development of historical Prussia.
