East Prussia

East Prussia (German: Ostpreußen; Lithuanian: Ryt? Pr?sija; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: ????????? ??????? — Vostochnaya Prussiya; Dutch: Oost-Pruisen; Spanish: Prusia Oriental;) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and of the German Empire, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. Today the northern part of East Prussia, with the exception of the "Memelland" which is now part of Lithuania, corresponds to Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast (Königsberg); the southern parts form Poland's Warminsko-Mazurskie Voivodship. East Prussia enclosed the bulk of the ancient ancestral lands of the Baltic Prussians.

Further reading

Publications in German

• B. Schumacher: Geschichte Ost- und Westpreussens, Wurzburg 1959
• Buxa, Werner and Hans-Ulrich Stamm: Bilder aus Ostpreußen
• Dönhoff, Marion Gräfin v. :Namen die keiner mehr nennt - Ostpreußen, Menschen und Geschichte
• Dönhoff, Marion Gräfin v.: Kindheit in Ostpreussen
• Falk, Lucy: Ich Blieb in Königsberg. Tagebuchblätter aus dunklen Nachkriegsjahren
• Kibelka, Ruth: Ostpreußens Schicksaljahre, 1945-1948

Publications in Polish

• K. Piwarski, Dzieje Prus Wschodnich w czasach nowo?ytnych, Gda?sk 1946
• Gerard Labuda (ed.), Historia Pomorza, vol. I–IV, Pozna? 1969–2003 (also covers East Prussia)
• collective work, Szkice z dziejów Pomorza, vol. 1–3, Warszawa 1958–61

External links

• German Empire: Province of East Prussia
• German Empire: Province of East and West Prussia

See also

• Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen
• Union of Poles in Germany