• ...of Poland in 1772, Königsberg became the capital of the newly formed province of East Prussia in 1773, which replaced the Province of Prussia in 1773.
  • The move follows similar decisions by Poland and Lithuania, both of which border the exclave, which formerly made up part of the German territory of East...
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Königsberg is the capital of the former German province of East Prussia . As a result of WWII, neither Königsberg nor East Prussia exists anymore.
  • 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...
  • Naively many citizens of Königsberg and East Prussia returned to the region at war’s end.
  • Picture library East Prussia, Königsberg (Pr.), Altrossgärter Kirchenstraße, Einmündung in Altrossgärter Predigerstraße, Altroßgärter Kirche.
  • By decision of the Potsdam Conference of 1945, Königsberg and its adjacent territory (approximately one-third of what was formerly East Prussia)...