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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Welcome scholarship on the loss of a major European center of culture and power.By actual buyerA fascinating, tragic history of East Prussia's demise as a socio-political and geographic reality. The lessons to be learned from this work are worth considering, including whether contemporary parallels, unfolding in different lands and cultures, may be drawn. It deserves five stars because of the author's personal efforts and the historical attention that the intentional elimination of such an important facet of European political and military life merits.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The end of Germany's old provinces -By NeilHExcellent introduction for historians and students of German history regarding the former lands of East Prussia.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Robert O.Excellent summary of a very sad chapter in human history and geography.

The Death of East Prussia describes the immense collateral damage inflicted on East Prussia resulting from Hitler's war of annihilation in Poland and the . The sought revenge when it invaded the province in the winter of 1945. Thousands of Germans tried to flee rampaging Soviet soldiers who raped, assaulted, murdered and pillaged with abandon. A wealth of eyewitness testimony provides gripping, personal narratives of the indomitable will of the East Prussians to survive under horrific conditions. The end was foreshadowed when the wartime Allies divided East Prussia between Russia and Poland and approved the expulsion of all East Prussians. Now outcasts in their own homeland, many succumbed to starvation and disease as virtual slave laborers for their new masters, and the survivors were expelled in the late 1940s. This ethnic cleansing of East Prussia was the price paid for 's own ethnic cleansing of Eastern Europe. Complementing this tale of human suffering is an historical analysis showing that geography, revenge and political calculation can explain the extinction of East Prussia.

"I am so filled with admiration for your empathy and your exemplary ability to summarize the essentials.... I was in tears when I read your description of the fates of individuals. You have the gift to describe these so precisely that I re- lived vividly what I experienced myself as an eyewitness. I would like to tell you...that I regard your book as the most important--because it is the most realistic--documentation yet to appear of the indescribable downfall of East Prussia and Konigsberg that has been written."--Michael Wieck, author of "A Childhood under Hitler and Stalin: Memoirs of a "Certified Jew"" "I cannot think of anything written on the terrible moment in history more powerful than what you have written. I'm still thinking about why it is so gut wrenching yet incredibly compelling. This is "New Yorker" quality writing you have done....Your writing is sparse, each word counts, there aren't any frills--which gives a haunting starkness to the terrifying events your witnesses describe."--Charles McCain, author of "An Honorable German"About the AuthorPeter B. Clark is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in philosophy from Reed College and received a PhD in economics from MIT. He taught economics at Duke University, worked at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, and retired as a Senior Adviser from the International Monetary Fund. During his career as an economist, he published widely in his field. Married to a German who escaped from East Prussia in 1944, he became fluent in German and visited Germany many times, including the former capital of East Prussia, Koenigsberg (now ). This is his first non-economics book.

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