Germany is losing, and the Russians are coming for revenge. Everyone in East Prussia, North Germany, is ordered to evacuate. Their only hope is to get on board the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that ...

Consequently, Prussia became a myth. Beyond the Myth shows the East Prussians and their idiosyncrasies, their ambivalent ties to Germany, their fatal pact with Hitler, their fluctuation between ...

Allied with France and Britain, Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian commander, agreed to help relieve the French, under attack from Germany, with an offensive in East Prussia. This required mobility ...

Germany's grand Schlieffen Plan to conquer ... further by the removal of 11 divisions to fight in Belgium and East Prussia. The German 1st Army, under Kluck, then swung north of Paris, rather ...