East Prussia facts
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The Wolfskinder (wolf-children). As the Red Army occupied East Prussia, 2 million German civilians fled. Many adults were killed, leaving behind ~45,000 young children who ran into the forests where they lived as scavengers.
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About 'Wolfskinder' - orphaned German children during WW2 who fled the then East Prussia to Lithuania. They survived hunger, cold and loss of identity. It was estimated that upto 25000 kids were roaming the woods and swamps of these regions after 1945.
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Roza Shanina. The first female Soviet sniper to be awarded the "Order of Glory". With 59 confirmed kills, she was killed in action in East Prussia, at the age of 20.
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Sommerfeld was a native of the region then known as East Prussia, which later became part of Germany.
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Kirchoff was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, now Kaliningrad, Russia.
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Operation Hannibal: between 800k and 900k German civilians and 350k soldiers were evacuated across the Baltic Sea to Germany and German-occupied Denmark from Courland, East Prussia and the Polish corridor - three times the number of people evacuated at Dunkirk.
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In August 1914, during World War I, retreating Russian soldiers tried to take a statue of Von Bismarck from East Prussia, but their commander told them not to do so because he did not want it to be an international incident
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There was a Protestant Polish population in East Prussia called Masurians. Most of them moved to Germany after the end of World War II.
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A far-right group tried to create an ethnic German settlement in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia (former East Prussia)
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SMS Königsberg was the lead ship of her class of light cruisers built by the German Imperial Navy. Named for the capital of East Prussia, she was laid down and launched in 1905 and completed the next year.
