For a week Berlin radio jittered with its strongest superlatives. “One of the war’s bloodiest struggles,” “mammoth offensive,” “grand assault,” “unheard-of numerical superiority,” “monstrous force.” ...
Last week we looked at the origins of House Hohenzollern and the Thirty Years’ War that brought Brandenburg-Prussia close to ...
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 ...
A feeling of optimism which was “gratifying” was discerned in East Prussian Jewish life during 1934, according to the official report of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Prussia, which contains ...
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 ...
In this video I briefly discuss the colonization history of the territories that would eventually constitute the Kingdom of ...
New Yrok: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Pp. xii, 366. Illus., map, notes, biblio., index. $28.00. ISBN: 0374158088 Forgotten Land is a mélange of different strata ...
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