In this video I briefly discuss the colonization history of the territories that would eventually constitute the Kingdom of Prussia: the Margraviate of Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia, and the ...

Welcome to the complete History of Prussia. Aside from the political and military history that stands central to this series, ...

IT may safely be assumed that the early history of Prussia is known to the great majority of English readers only from the first four books of Carlyle’s Frederic the Great. So powerful was the ...

“Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia” by Max Egremont (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 359 pages, $28) Try to imagine that you have just survived a terrible war, and now that the war ...

These Russian soldiers were given to the Prussian king as ‘human presents.’ Most of them never returned home. “The most beautiful girl or woman in the world would be a matter of indifference to me, ...