• Persecution of Jews under the Nazi regime[edit]. Prior to the Nazi era, Königsberg was home to a third of East Prussia's 13,000 Jews.
  • The need to control the Baltic coastline would bring the Soviet Union into the heart of East Prussia — and towards the fortress city of Königsberg.
  • From this core Prussia - later East Prussia - the Prussian state emerged and gave it the name Prussia. In 1724 Königsberg's most famous son saw the light of...
  • East Prussia. The region of the Königsberg Province was inhabited during the Middle Ages by tribes of Old Prussians in the western part and Lithuanians in the...
  • Königsberg (in Polish Królewiec), chief town of a government district in the province of East Prussia and since 1843 a fortress of the first rank, is situated on the...
  • Lost Castle of Königsberg, East Prussia (Modern Kaliningrad, Russia) Founded 1255 by Teutonic Order?
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  • The Soviet Union was interested in giving East Prussia, including Königsberg, back to Germany as part of the reunification in 1990 but the German politicians...
  • Konigsberg/Prussia. 90 Pins. 6y. ... Historical Photos. Old World. View from the tower of Königsberg Cathedral, Königsberg, East Prussia, 1930.
  • The Eastern Railway ended in Eydtkuhnen and connected Königsberg and East Prussia with Berlin. Königsberg became a hub in north-eastern European traffic.
  • Königsberg is the capital of the former German province of East Prussia . As a result of WWII, neither Königsberg nor East Prussia exists anymore.
  • Make Königsberg-East Prussia/ Kaliningrad- Exclave part of Germany with as late a POD as possible. It has to have a population at least aproching a German...
  • After the war, following the transfer of East Prussia to the Russian SFSR, Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad, and was installed with predominantly Russian...
  • The Old Prussian language had become extinct by the 17th or early 18th century. In 1939 East Prussia had 2.49 million inhabitants, 85% of them ethnic Germans, the others Poles in the south, or Lietuvininkai...