Poland is emblematic of the fate of weak countries surrounded by strong ones, which may pay the price of the wars of the strong as well as their agreement. It has been partitioned three times in its ...

Aware that conflict with Germany was imminent, the Polish government anticipated an attack aimed at reclaiming the Polish ...

All last Summer the Pan-Germanic League exerted its constantly growing influence to have German officials in Eastern Prussia replaced by those of strong anti-Polish sentiments, and at the same ...

1864-1914 - The Polish national movement in Russia, Prussia and Austria focuses on strengthening the grassroots through education, culture and political parties. 1918 - After more than a century ...

Riding the RE1 train from Brandenburg to the Polish border, I find its ghosts linger on ... But surely no state so important to global history has been dismantled so thoroughly as Prussia. Having ...

Congress of Vienna / histoire-image.org It happened in the 20th century (87) The final act of the Congress of Vienna was signed on 9 June 1815. This document was highly significant, shaping the fate ...

In the Polish city of Malbork, once part of German West Prussia, one mass grave after the other has been uncovered over the years. The causes of the mass deaths in the city following World War II ...

Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern ...