In August 1757, Prussia faced the Russian bear for the first time. Because of the lack of knowledge about Russian warfare at the time (the only points of reference were Sweden's Great Northern War and ...

Answering German demands for Danzig, one prominent Polish newspaper today called for the return of East Prussia to Poland, while the country celebrated the anniversary of the 1791 Constitution, the ...

In this video I briefly discuss the colonization history of the territories that would eventually constitute the Kingdom of Prussia: the Margraviate of Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia, and the ...

Witnesses tell not only of the terror of flight but also of responsibility, guilt and innocence, hopes and fears in the years before and during the war. The story of ...

A 23-year-old German Jew, Hans Israel Blumenthal, has been sentenced to death in Allenstein, East Prussia, for a “martial crime,” according to the German newspaper Koenigsberger Allgemeine Zeitung.

In Moscow, where the first snow of the winter fell, the names of fallen East Prussian towns—Ebenrode, Schlossberg, Grün-weitschen—came sweetly to the ears of Russian civilians. They enjoyed the report ...

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To Germans it is a bitter, galling fact that Posen, the birthplace of President Paul von Hindenburg, is no longer German but lies in the wedge of Polish territory which was driven through Prussia to ...

Polish divers say they have found the wreck of a German World War Two ship which may help solve a decades-old mystery - the whereabouts of the Amber Room, an ornate chamber from a tsarist palace in ...