• 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...
  • Königsberg (Latinised name of the city is Regimontium Prussorum) was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945.
  • Koch had abandoned East Prussia and Königsberg and those who remained now faced the wrath of the Russians.The German armed forces had slaughtered...
  • 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...
  • The whole region of East Prussia is lost. Marion Döhnoff has a great autobiography about her time growing up there as a countess and her fleeing on horseback...
  • 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...
  • Wwii Photos. East Prussia In 1945. ... Historical Photos. Old World. View from the tower of Königsberg Cathedral, Königsberg, East Prussia, 1930.
  • From the 13th century, East Prussia was part of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, which became the Duchy of Prussia in 1525.
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • Königsberg is the capital of the former German province of East Prussia . As a result of WWII, neither Königsberg nor East Prussia exists anymore.