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Posted: 09 Apr 2022

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KONIGSBERG

KONIGSBERG
View of Konigsberg, C. 1740
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Kant’s Konigsberg was on the edge of the world -- at least of the German-speaking world, of which it was the easternmost outpost. It had been founded in violence in 1254 by the Teutonic Knights en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Order fierce German crusaders who set out to conquer and convert the pagan Balts. Under their rule the “Borussia” of the Latin chronicles became Preussen, or Prussia, a deeply Germanized province. . . . Page 42

. . . In the latter stages of the war, the city was devastates first by Brithsh air raids and then by Soviet artillery. In 1945 the German population had not already fled was killed or forcibly deported. A new population, from the Soviet Union, was brought in. the territory around Konigsberg was given to Poland and Lithuania, and the city itself renamed Kaliningrad, became Soviet territory, an enclave housing a militarized naval base. Between 1945 and 1989 the Soviet authorities, in what must be a classic case of Stalinish eradication of memory, demolished most of what had not already been destroyed. Every place name and street name changed and the cradle of Prussian monarchy was transformed into a modern Soviet city. Kant’s Konigsberg vanished. ~ Page 51

. . . In the latter stages of the war, the city was devastates first by Brithsh air raids and then by Soviet artillery. In 1945 the German population had not already fled was killed or forcibly deported. A new population, from the Soviet Union, was brought in. the territory around Konigsberg was given to Poland and Lithuania, and the city itself renamed Kaliningrad, became Soviet territory, an enclave housing a militarized naval base. Between 1945 and 1989 the Soviet authorities, in what must be a classic case of Stalinish eradication of memory, demolished most of what had not already been destroyed. Every place name and street name changed and the cradle of Prussian monarchy was transformed into a modern Soviet city. Kant’s Konigsberg vanished. ~ Page 51
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