Questions tagged [prussia]
Prussia: A German state formed by the merger of Brandenburg, "East" Prussia, and smaller states.
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Was Kaliningrad offered to the Lithuanian SSR; was this offer rejected; and if so, why?
This is a follow up to this other question Why was Kaliningrad placed under the Russian SFSR rather than the Lithuanian SSR?
Semaphore's answer states:
... a similar offer was made to give ...
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Why was the shape of German states pre-WWII (especially Prussia) so complicated?
The shapes of the Länder territories in Germany were very complicated. There was hundreds exclaves and enclaves all over the place to the point it became ridiculous.
Notably the shape of Prussia, ...
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Was the Soviet Union in 1945 seeking to capture German soldiers and civilians, or drive them west?
The latter part of Prit Buttar's Battleground Prussia deals with the desperate attempts by German soldiers and civilians to escape from the ports and peninsulas of East and West Prussia in early 1945. ...
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Who considered themselves as "Prussian"?
This is very confusing to me. The word "Prussian" means a lot of different things and has a lot of connotations (such as imperialism, militarism, …), while simultaneously describing a geographical ...
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