Following the fall of Minsk, Stalin ordered the Red Army to seize Vilno by July 12th, successfully encircling the heavily ...

Answering German demands for Danzig, one prominent Polish newspaper today called for the return of East Prussia to Poland, while the country celebrated the anniversary of the 1791 Constitution, the ...

In August 1757, Prussia faced the Russian bear for the first time. Because of the lack of knowledge about Russian warfare at ...

“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 ...

Witnesses tell not only of the terror of flight but also of responsibility, guilt and innocence, hopes and fears in the years before and during the war. The story of ...

A feeling of optimism which was “gratifying” was discerned in East Prussian Jewish life during 1934, according to the official report of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Prussia, which contains ...

In August 1934, Gen Paul von Hindenburg, president of Germany and hero of the First World War, was buried at the Tannenburg Memorial in East Prussia. His Pickelhaube the spiked Prussian helmet of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Slavonic and East European Review was founded in 1922 by Bernard Pares, R. W. Seton Watson and Harold Williams as the journal ...