In “Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia,” Max Egremont reconstructs the tragic sequence of events that took place in this picturesque region on the Baltic Sea. In 1945 ...

Prussia, as it existed up to 1945, had come into being as a colonial territory: in the wide perspective, it was one item in the gradual German colonisation of east and central Europe which began in ...

Koenigsberg 1945 Koenigsberg 1945 relates the major Soviet offensive against East Prussia in early 1945. The German player must hold at all costs against enemy onslaughts to gain enough time for ...

To some, the eradication of East Prussia in 1945 had a certain justice about it (‘They deserve it,' said Churchill). But the book is much more nuanced. Reminiscent of those of Ivan Bunin or W.G.

It’s January 30th, 1945, and a 10-year-old boy named Horst Woit is fleeing the war. Germany is losing, and the Russians are coming for revenge. Everyone in East Prussia, North Germany ...

Here is her story, as recounted by her son: Elfie was born in East Prussia and left the country in 1945 during a mass evacuation when the Soviet Union closed in near the end of World War II.

£14.99 With this story of an East Prussian family forced to flee the advancing Red Army in 1945, Bryan Malessa joins the ranks of Günter Grass, Rachel Seiffert and others in taking on the major ...

The picture below illustrates POW's being marched from East Prussia to Germany in 1945. It is from an oli painting by Mr Stan Johnson of Blyth, Northumberland who was on the march. Mr Johnson has ...