• 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...
  • Records were originally in the University Library in Königsberg, East Prussia; now located in the Staatsbibliothek Berlin.
  • Naively many citizens of Königsberg and East Prussia returned to the region at war’s end.
  • By then, the decision to annihilate East Prussia and grant Königsberg to the Soviet Union had already been taken, so the reason for its destruction remains a mystery.
  • Königsberg in East Prussia was leveled by Allied bombing in WWII and was then annexed to Soviet Union which expelled its German inhabitants.
  • English: This category contains files and media relating to Königsberg, until 1945 the German capital of East Prussia.
  • Кабина. Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, Königsberg (Pr.), Hintertragheim 31, 3 Kronen Loge. Postcard Braunsberg, East Prussia, Swan pond...
  • Under the Potsdam Agreement of 1945, the northern part of East Prussia, including the city of Königsberg, was transferred to the Soviet Union.
  • Königsberg East Prussia. CAM00706-min.jpg CAM00708-min.jpg CAM00709-min.jpg CAM00711-min.jpg CAM00712-min.jpg CAM00714-min.jpg...