East Prussian
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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Five years earlier, Günter Grass had published “Crabwalk,” a fictionalized account of the 1945 sinking of a ship bearing thousands of East Prussian refugees.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2018
One story, The Animals, openly pits a band of starving Russian prisoners against a German circus menagerie, uprooted from its East Prussian winter quarters by a Russian offensive.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the big car swept up to Neudeck an entire company of Reichswehr troops stood at wooden-soldier salute, flanked by peasants in bright, old-fashioned East Prussian costumes.
From Time Magazine Archive
A deserter from the Nazis is Hermann Rauschning, former East Prussian officer and Junker, former President of the Danzig Senate, former member of Hitler's inner circle.
From Time Magazine Archive
On this occasion he inquired of this body whether they would elect twelve members of the East Prussian knighthood, to represent the old order of lords, and what privileges they wished to have secured.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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