East Prussian

British  

adjective

1. of or relating to the former German province of East Prussia or its inhabitants

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noun

1. a native or inhabitant of the former East Prussia

Example Sentences

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

Red bombs rained on the East Prussian junction town of Tilsit, whose railroads lead to Insterburg and K�nigsberg.

From Time Magazine Archive

Solzhenitsyn focuses on eleven days during the Czarist army's disastrous East Prussian campaign.

From Time Magazine Archive

Topel had wanted to be a priest ever since he was a six-year-old growing up in Bozeman, Mont., the fourth son of an East Prussian tailor who had immigrated to America in 1878.

From Time Magazine Archive

This town, like so many other East Prussian towns, had suffered cruelly, having been in the thick of the fighting almost from the beginning of the war.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)