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| About Prussens and Prussians:
In order to convert the Baltic Prussens, who were heathens, and to dominate this area politically the knights of the German Order conquered the country in the 13th century. The multiethnic state of the German Order came to be named after the Prussen natives. From its eastern part the protestant dukedom of Prussia arose in 1525. Much later in 1701, this state became the basis of the Prussian kingdom. Its name was gradually extended to designate the whole state of Brandenburg- Prussia. The special role of the later province of East Prussia ended in 1867 with the membership in the Confederation of the North German States and the integration into the German Empire in 1871. |
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| From World War to World War:
After World War I the Treaty of Versailles meant the loss of more than 70,000 square kilometres of German territory including large parts of eastern Germany. East Prussia lost the "Memelland" and was separated from the rest of Germany by the corridor of Danzig. At the end of World War II out of the two and a half million people who had lived in East Prussia, half a million died. Great suffering was inflicted on the remaining population which had to flee, was expelled or deported. Like the rest of East Germany East Prussia was given to the victors and their allies. | |
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