• 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.
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The city now contains far fewer than even 5% ethnic Germans. The whole region of East Prussia is lost. ... This became known as "the revenge of the Prussians"
  • Konigsberg/Prussia. 90 Pins. 6y. ... Historical Photos. Old World. View from the tower of Königsberg Cathedral, Königsberg, East Prussia, 1930.
  • The Weimar Republic was reeling from failed revolution and hyper-inflation. East Prussia was left to fend for itself out on the eastern frontier of Germany.
  • Alona, Königsberg was the capital of what was until 1945 the Prussian province of East Prussia (in German: Ostpreussen).East Prussia was located on the...
  • 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...
  • N/A Königsberg '45 + 0 more. Konigsberg: The Soviet Attack on East Prussia, 1945 simulates the Soviet Attack by the 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts on...
  • On 24 January 1945, the 3rd Belorussian Front led by General Chernyakhovsky, surrounded the capital city of East Prussia, Königsberg.