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East Prussia n (Placename) a former province of NE Germany on the Baltic Sea: separated in 1919 from the rest of Germany by the Polish Corridor and Danzig: in 1945 Poland received the south part, the Soviet Union the north German name Ostpreussen [ostˈprɔysən] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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On July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, a Catholic, and three others carried a bomb into Hitler's bunker in East Prussia intending to kill him, but it misfired and Hitler escaped death. Yet Kasson has failed to deal with the obvious point that Sandow from East Prussia and Houdini (a Jew whose family had emigrated from Hungary), however they were interpreted, were themselves outsiders in American society. She tells of her life as Hitler's personal secretary, working with him on his special train; at Berchtesgaden, his Bavarian residence; and in the Wolf's Lair, his field headquarters in East Prussia. |
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