East Prussian
Britishadjective
noun
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Five years earlier, Günter Grass had published “Crabwalk,” a fictionalized account of the 1945 sinking of a ship bearing thousands of East Prussian refugees.
From New York Times • May 25, 2018
One story, The Animals, openly pits a band of starving Russian prisoners against a German circus menagerie, uprooted from its East Prussian winter quarters by a Russian offensive.
From Time Magazine Archive
Red bombs rained on the East Prussian junction town of Tilsit, whose railroads lead to Insterburg and K�nigsberg.
From Time Magazine Archive
Topel had wanted to be a priest ever since he was a six-year-old growing up in Bozeman, Mont., the fourth son of an East Prussian tailor who had immigrated to America in 1878.
From Time Magazine Archive
Necessarily all troops save that minimum which represented the barest margin of safety were sent to the west and there was left to a small force the duty of defending the East Prussian marshes.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
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