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Last week we have seen Prussia shock the European theatre under Frederick the Great. As he passed away childless, his nephew, ...
In the previous episodes, we have seen the Great Elector construct the beginnings of both a Prussian state and Army. Through ...
The Prussian confiscation law has caused tremendous excitement among the Jews of Poland. There are many Polish Jews who are not living in Germany who also possess immovable property in Prussia. The ...
The torso of a long-lost monument to Prussian King Frederick William I has been discovered in the Polish city of Koszalin, ending an 80-year mystery. Archaeologist Jacek Borkowski, who led the search, ...
Written between the end of January and April 6, 1866 First published in The Commonwealth, Nos. 159, 160 and 165, March 14, 31 and May 5, 1866 Translated into Polish in 1895. BACKGROUND: Engels wrote ...
On his way back from self-imposed exile in Paris, in 1844, Heinrich Heine caught a first glimpse of Prussian soldiers in Aachen, a city in the far west corner of Germany: With which they used to be ...
Malbork (German: Marienburg) is a town in northern Poland in the Zulawy region (Vistula delta), with 38,478 inhabitants (2006). Situated in the Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, it was previously ...
The not-quite vanished state is central to the history of Europe. Riding the RE1 train from Brandenburg to the Polish border, I find its ghosts linger on. By Jeremy Cliffe The modern world is haunted ...