East Prussian
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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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
Son of a Prussian officer, himself trained in a military school, Rauschning is an East Prussian Junker who joined the Nazis in 1931 because he could see no other way out for Germany's desperation.
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
As the big car swept up to Neudeck an entire company of Reichswehr troops stood at wooden-soldier salute, flanked by peasants in bright, old-fashioned East Prussian costumes.
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
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