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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

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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

In Moscow, where the first snow of the winter fell, the names of fallen East Prussian towns�Ebenrode, Schlossberg, Gr�n-weitschen�came sweetly to the ears of Russian civilians.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1944 the Red Army confidently expected no further repetitions of World War I's East Prussian history.

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

One battery of horse-artillery of the 1st, East Prussian, Field-artillery regiment.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count