Königsberg
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noun
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Born in 1906 into an assimilated German-Jewish family, Arendt grew up in Königsberg, then the capital of East Prussia in the German Empire, under the political tutelage of her mother, Martha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Previously known as Królewiec by Poles and Königsberg by Germans, it was renamed Kaliningrad by the Soviets after Mikhail Kalinin, one of the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution.
From BBC ● May 10, 2023
Despite a raging world war, in 1944, my mother was sent to finishing school in Königsberg, until that August when she escaped Britain's fiery bombing of the city under a wet blanket.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2021
In 1945, she took part in the Battle of Königsberg, then Germany’s easternmost city, a fortress bristling with artillery.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2020
He carefully strategized its safekeeping and after much deliberation the twenty-seven crates were secretly shipped to the castle museum in Königsberg.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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