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What Was Prussia?
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 26, 2021, 1:29 am
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What Was Prussia?
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> In this video, we look at Prussia, and explain what exactly it
was, and how it fit into history.
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Germans in the American Revolution
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
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See also:
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Re: What Was Prussia?
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 29, 2021, 8:19 pm
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Was Prussia's Army Really the Best?
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Re: What Was Prussia?
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 5, 2021, 10:48 pm
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The "Other" German Army - Chile's Prussian Tradition
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> The army of the Kaiser lives on - but not in Germany. The
Chilean Army still uses the uniforms, traditions, weapons and
marching music of 19th century Prussia and also of the Wehrmacht
WWII era. Find out the story of how this came about.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adzg_iMg9Sc
Chilean and Swedish Military | The Last Remnants of Prussia | HD
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvfUylIdYVc
Chile Military Parade 2019 - More Prussian than Germany - with
Prussia Gloria March as BGM (Full HD)
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Re: What Was Prussia?
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 10, 2021, 1:50 am
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How Prussia Ended The French Empire: Franco-Prussian War |
Animated History
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Re: What Was Prussia?
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 9, 2022, 8:05 pm
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Let's talk about Koenigsberg (or what Russians call
Kaliningrad):
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> Following Adolf Hitler's coming to power, Nazis confiscated
Jewish shops and, as in the rest of Germany, a public book
burning was organised, accompanied by anti-Semitic speeches in
May 1933 at the Trommelplatz square. Street names and monuments
of Jewish origin were removed, and signs such as "Jews are not
welcomed in hotels" started appearing. As part of the state-wide
"aryanisation" of the civil service Jewish academics were
ejected from the university.[54]
> ...
> Prior to the Nazi era, Königsberg was home to a third of East
Prussia's 13,000 Jews. Under Nazi rule, the Polish and Jewish
minorities were classified as Untermensch and persecuted by the
authorities. The city's Jewish population shrank from 3,200 in
1933 to 2,100 in October 1938. The New Synagogue of Königsberg,
constructed in 1896, was destroyed during Kristallnacht (9
November 1938); 500 Jews soon fled the city.
> ...
> Other victims included local Polish civilians guillotined for
petty violations of Nazi law and regulations such as buying and
selling meat.[61]
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Hail Hitler!
Russia had wanted it for a long time:
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> During the Seven Years' War of 1756 to 1763 Imperial Russian
troops occupied eastern Prussia at the beginning of 1758. On 31
December 1757, Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issued an ukase
about the incorporation of Königsberg into Russia.[29]
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And eventually they got it:
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> On 9 April – one month before the end of the war in Europe –
the German military commander of Königsberg, General Otto Lasch,
surrendered the remnants of his forces, following the
three-month-long siege by the Red Army. For this act, Lasch was
condemned to death, in absentia, by Hitler.[69] At the time of
the surrender, military and civilian dead in the city were
estimated at 42,000, with the Red Army claiming over 90,000
prisoners.[70] Lasch's subterranean command bunker is preserved
as a museum in today's Kaliningrad.[71]
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> About 120,000 survivors remained in the ruins of the
devastated city. The German civilians were held as forced
labourers until 1946. Only the Lithuanians, a small minority of
the pre-war population, were collectively allowed to stay.[72]
Between October 1947 and October 1948, about 100,000 Germans
were forcibly moved to Germany.[73][need quotation to verify]
The remaining 20,000 German residents were expelled in
1949–50.[74]
> ...
> At the Potsdam Conference, northern Prussia, including
Königsberg, was annexed by the USSR which attached it to the
Russian SFSR. In 1946, the city's name was changed to
Kaliningrad. Northern Prussia remained part of the Soviet Union
until its dissolution in 1991, and since then has been an
exclave of the Russian Federation.
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When will Germany take it back? How about now?
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Re: Re: Diplomatic decolonization
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: April 6, 2022, 9:14 pm
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Official government website of Lithuania referring to
Kaliningrad as Königsberg in a press release announcing
Lithuania's independence from Russian gas imports:
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> Seeking full energy independence from Russian gas, in response
to Russia's energy blackmail in Europe and the war in Ukraine,
Lithuania has completely abandoned Russian gas: Lithuania's gas
transmission system has been operating without Russian gas
imports since the beginning of this month.
> [...]
> Gas in transit through Lithuania continues to be transported
for the needs of Königsberg, but in a different technical mode
than usual, ensuring only the transfer of the amount of gas
required for transit.
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