East Prussia
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In the 1830s, however, the city, then the capital of East Prussia, was “still bathed in the amber glow of the late Enlightenment,” as Christopher Clark tells us in “A Scandal in Königsberg.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
After the Potsdam Conference, the remaining Germans in East Prussia were expelled and the refugees prohibited from returning.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2021
In 1618, the king of Brandenburg inherited the kingdom of East Prussia, and in the following years smaller territories in the west on the Rhine River.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
In the first frigid months of 1945, nearly 750,000 Germans fled East Prussia ahead of the advancing Red Army.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2018
In August, while German armies were marching through Belgium, Russian troops invaded the province of East Prussia, the historic birthplace of the German Empire.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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