This was the case of Prussia, a former duchy that in the early 1700s emerged from the shadow of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire. Growing to encompass much of northern and central Europe ...

Elżbieta Zawacka risked her life to rid her country of the Nazis. After the war, she was targeted by the Communist ...

said Sarbicki. Nowadays, Prussian is a second language for several dozen Prussians and is officially classified as a living language, not as extinct. It is used by dozens of speakers, 10 of which live ...

During the second partition of Poland in 1793 (between the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia), Poland was forced to cede Danzig to Prussia, but only briefly. Napoleon Bonaparte acquired ...

Defeating the Prussian army at the battles of Jéna and ... To defeat Russia, Napoleon marched his soldiers deep into Poland. WOLOCH: Napoleon’s justification is that you always have to take ...

For hundreds of years before World War Two, the area was known as Königsberg and was part of East Prussia. Królewiec is the Polish translation of Königsberg. However, after World War Two ...

the Wehrmacht prepares its forces to defend East Prussia, Poland, and the home soil of Germany itself. Take command of your forces once again and prepare to face the might of the Red Army head on ...

Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst was born on 2 May 1729 in Stettin, then part of Prussia (now Szczecin in Poland), the daughter of a minor German prince. In 1745, after being received ...