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East Prussia


Picture book for


TANNENBERG


East Prussia


…old Germanic culture and settlement area


Boundary territory



Land on the sea.



Tutonic Knights


Tutonic Fortress Marienwerder


Foliage covered home in the Marienburger Lowlands


Burgher homes in Elbing


The castle in Kรถnigsburg



Studfarm Trakehnen


Fishing boats on the Kurish Lagoon


Market Day in


Amber, the East Prussian gold, and wood are the most important raw materials


Amber works in Palmnicken



This Happened in Versailles! East Prussia: separated from the Reich Danzig: separated from the Reich; Memel: stolen.


Kurzebrack, East Prussia’s “Entrance to the Weichsel.


Danzig


Lithuanian capriciousness in the pillaged Memel area.


These were the wishes: Gray area from Poland, dark black area, from Lithuania


The answer to the Polish demand as a result of the plebiscite: (circle for Germany, solid white for Poland).


Not west- and not an east orientation can be the future goal of our foreign policies, but Ostpolitik in the sense of acquisition of the necessary area for our German people.” The Leader in “Mein Kampf.”


Erich Koch, the creator of the East Prussian plan.


The Third Reich assures land for the peasantry


Work service gains new soil.


New settlements appear.


The struggle for work overcomes unemployment.


Native industry‌


with new factories is built.


The merchant marine is expanded‌ The Autobahn is built.


East Prussia is calling! Population density: East Prussian needs people


Country service of the Hitler Youth Recognition of the youth for the land in the east.


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