• 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...
  • 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...
  • 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"
  • 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.
  • Konigsberg/Prussia. 90 Pins. 6y. ... Historical Photos. Old World. View from the tower of Königsberg Cathedral, Königsberg, East Prussia, 1930.
  • By decision of the Potsdam Conference of 1945, Königsberg and its adjacent territory (approximately one-third of what was formerly East Prussia)...
  • Places in East Prussia. Synagogue Koenigsberg. ... Synagogues in East Prussia A-Z. Maps.
  • Koch had abandoned East Prussia and Königsberg and those who remained now faced the wrath of the Russians.The German armed forces had slaughtered...
  • On 24 January 1945, the 3rd Belorussian Front led by General Chernyakhovsky, surrounded the capital city of East Prussia, Königsberg.
  • 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...