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East Prussian

British  

adjective

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of the former East Prussia

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Back in 1943, when bomb-torn Berlin started evacuating pregnant women to his East Prussian hospital, Dr. Emil Martens recklessly remarked to a colleague and fellow Nazi that Germany must be losing the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

First of all we will follow the fortunes of the East Prussian campaign.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) by James Edward Parrott

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