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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

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

All her life, K�the Kollwitz could remember her parents' bewilderment when, as a young girl in the East Prussian city of K�nigsberg, she first began to draw.

From Time Magazine Archive

Near the East Prussian border with Lithuania stood the windmill of Tauroggen.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of his officials, Bernot by name, was bribed by numerous East Prussian landowners to have the crops from their estates bought by the Government at exorbitant prices.

From The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade by Mavrogordato, John

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