• 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.
  • 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...
  • This chessboard is named after the German villas in the most luxurious area of Königsberg, which can still be visited in today's Kaliningrad.
  • Königsberg (Latinised name of the city is Regimontium Prussorum) was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945.
  • 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...
  • Koch had abandoned East Prussia and Königsberg and those who remained now faced the wrath of the Russians.The German armed forces had slaughtered...
  • 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...
  • Jan 23, 2024 - Explore Albert Moore's board "East Prussia" on Pinterest. See more ideas about prussia, kaliningrad, konigsberg.
  • Königsberg is the capital of the former German province of East Prussia . As a result of WWII, neither Königsberg nor East Prussia exists anymore.
  • Even the Allies gave him signs beginning in late Aug 1944 when British Lancaster bombers dropped over 1,000 tons of bombs on Königsberg, East Prussia...
  • From the 13th century, East Prussia was part of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, which became the Duchy of Prussia in 1525.
  • 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...