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East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia on the southeastern Baltic coast, with a German-majority population and a Polish-Lithuanian minority. It was part of Poland, then the Teutonic Knights, then Germany, and was divided between Poland, Lithuania and the Soviet Union after World War II.
Aug 9, 2024 · East Prussia was a German province on the Baltic Sea that was divided between Poland and the Soviet Union after World War II. Learn about its history, geography, culture, and role in the Napoleonic Wars and World War I.
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Learn about the mass movement of German civilians and military personnel from East Prussia in 1945, amid the Red Army offensive and Nazi propaganda. Find out the causes, consequences, and controversies of the evacuation, as well as the sources and references.
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- East Prussia and Memel [ 1]
Jul 8, 2022 · Until 1945 Kaliningrad was the German, or more accurately East Prussian, city of Königsberg. Immanuel Kant, the philosopher who never left the region, even became a Russian briefly when ...
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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.
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.
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Feb 8, 2011 · A documentary by Ostpreußischer Rundfunk that shows how three million Germans died after VE Day in East Prussia. It covers the rapes, massacres, expulsions and famine that the Soviets inflicted on the German population.
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