Forgotten Land (44 page)
Authors: Max Egremont
St Petersburg (Petrograd; Leningrad): in revolution (1917); siege,
Samsonov, General Alexander Vasilevich,
Sarmatia,
Sassoon, Siegfried,
Schengen Agreement,
Scherping, Ulrich,
Schiller, Friedrich,
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich,
Schlobitten (now Slobity),
Schmidt, Carl,
Schmidt, Helmut,
Schmidt, Konrad,
Schmidt, Lise,
Schröder, Gerhard,
Schumann, Clara,
Schweitzer, Albert,
Sedan, battle of (1870),
Serbia: and outbreak of First World War,
Siberia: civil war in (1918 – 21) –
Siehr, Ernst,
Sienkiewicz, Henryk:
Knight of the Cross
(as film),
Sievers, General Thadeus, Baron von,
Slavs: settle in Prussia,
Słobity
see
Schlobitten
Smyltynè,
Soldau,
Solidarity movement (Poland),
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander;
August 1914
,
Prussian Nights
,
Sovetsk
see
Tilsit
Speer, Albert –
Stahlhelm,
Stalin, Josef V.: appropriates Königsberg; and westward advance in war; Solzhenitsyn jokes about transfers Poles to East Prussia; has Germans deported from Königsberg,
Stalingrad,
Stauffenberg, Colonel Count Claus von,
St
bark
see
Tannenberg
Stein, Karl vom und zum,
Steinbach, Erika,
Steinort (house, now Sztynort),
Steuben
(ship),
Strauss, Richard:
Ariadne auf Naxos
,
Strauss und Torney, Lulu von (
later
Dietrichs),
Stresemann, Gustav,
Sturm und Drang
,
Stutthof,
Sudetenland,
Surminski, Arno,
Sztynort
see
Steinort
Samsonov, General Alexander Vasilevich,
Sarmatia,
Sassoon, Siegfried,
Schengen Agreement,
Scherping, Ulrich,
Schiller, Friedrich,
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich,
Schlobitten (now Slobity),
Schmidt, Carl,
Schmidt, Helmut,
Schmidt, Konrad,
Schmidt, Lise,
Schröder, Gerhard,
Schumann, Clara,
Schweitzer, Albert,
Sedan, battle of (1870),
Serbia: and outbreak of First World War,
Siberia: civil war in (1918 – 21) –
Siehr, Ernst,
Sienkiewicz, Henryk:
Knight of the Cross
(as film),
Sievers, General Thadeus, Baron von,
Slavs: settle in Prussia,
Słobity
see
Schlobitten
Smyltynè,
Soldau,
Solidarity movement (Poland),
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander;
August 1914
,
Prussian Nights
,
Sovetsk
see
Tilsit
Speer, Albert –
Stahlhelm,
Stalin, Josef V.: appropriates Königsberg; and westward advance in war; Solzhenitsyn jokes about transfers Poles to East Prussia; has Germans deported from Königsberg,
Stalingrad,
Stauffenberg, Colonel Count Claus von,
St
barksee
Tannenberg
Stein, Karl vom und zum,
Steinbach, Erika,
Steinort (house, now Sztynort),
Steuben
(ship),
Strauss, Richard:
Ariadne auf Naxos
,
Strauss und Torney, Lulu von (
later
Dietrichs),
Stresemann, Gustav,
Sturm und Drang
,
Stutthof,
Sudetenland,
Surminski, Arno,
Sztynort
see
Steinort
Tannenberg (now St
bark): Memorial,
; and battle of Grunwald (1410); German victory at (1914); dedication ceremony (1927); Nazis demonstrate at Memorial; Hindenburg’s funeral at; visitors,
Tatars: invade Masuria,
Taurrogen, Convention of (1812),
Terrington, Vere Florence Anne Woodhouse, Lady (
née
Bousher),
Teutonic Knights; and Tannenberg memorial –
Thiepval (Belgium),
Thorn
see
Toru
Three Emperors’ League (Austria-Hungary /Germany/Russia),
Tilsit (now Sovetsk): and frontier; Russians occupy (1914); Nazism in; German character,
Timireva, Anna,
Tirpitz, Admiral Alfred von,
Todt Organisation,
Toru
(formerly Thorn) –
Tournier, Michel,
Townsend, Charles E.,
Trakehnen
see
Yasnaya Polyana
Trakehnen stud,
Treitschke, Heinrich von,
Trotsky, Leon,
Turks: as threat to Europe,
bark): Memorial,; and battle of Grunwald (1410); German victory at (1914); dedication ceremony (1927); Nazis demonstrate at Memorial; Hindenburg’s funeral at; visitors,
Tatars: invade Masuria,
Taurrogen, Convention of (1812),
Terrington, Vere Florence Anne Woodhouse, Lady (
née
Bousher),
Teutonic Knights; and Tannenberg memorial –
Thiepval (Belgium),
Thorn
see
Toru
Three Emperors’ League (Austria-Hungary /Germany/Russia),Tilsit (now Sovetsk): and frontier; Russians occupy (1914); Nazism in; German character,
Timireva, Anna,
Tirpitz, Admiral Alfred von,
Todt Organisation,
Toru
(formerly Thorn) –Tournier, Michel,
Townsend, Charles E.,
Trakehnen
see
Yasnaya Polyana
Trakehnen stud,
Treitschke, Heinrich von,
Trotsky, Leon,
Turks: as threat to Europe,
Ukraine: independence (1918); hostility to Poland,
Ulrich von Jungingen,
Ulrich von Jungingen,
Vassilevsky, General Alexander M.,
Versailles, Treaty of (1919),
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy,
Vienna, Congress of (1815),
Vilnius
see
Wilno
Vistula, River: as boundary; size,
Vladslo (Belgium),
Vlasov, General Andrey,
Volkssturm,
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet,
Voss (farmer),
Versailles, Treaty of (1919),
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy,
Vienna, Congress of (1815),
Vilnius
see
Wilno
Vistula, River: as boundary; size,
Vladslo (Belgium),
Vlasov, General Andrey,
Volkssturm,
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet,
Voss (farmer),
Wał
sa, Lech,
Walewska, Countess Marie,
Warsaw: National Library; rebuilt,
Weber, Carl Maria von:
Der Freischütz
,
Weber, Fritz,
Weigelt, Klaus,
Wieck, Dorothea,
Wieck, Michael,
Wieck, Miriam,
Wiesenthal, Simon,
Wilhelm Gustloff
(ship),
William I, King of Prussia and German emperor,
William II, German Emperor: in Königsberg; dismisses Bismarck; speaks at Marienburg on domination; visits Schlobitten; and Prussian power; friendship with Eulenburg; toasted as King of Prussia; abdicates (1918); Marion Dönhoff despises; has Kant’s statue head placed on Frederick William II’s memorial; at Rominten; reign,
Wilno (earlier Vilnius): University; incorporated in Soviet Union; Poland annexes (1920),
Wilson, Sir Arnold,
Wilson, General Sir Henry,
Wirballen (Lithuania),
Władislaw II Jagiełło, King of Poland,
Wolff, Karl,
Wolf’s Lair (Wolfsschanze),
World War I (1914 – 18): outbreak; Russian – German conflict; initial war of movement; cemeteries and memorials, –
Wrocław
see
Breslau
sa, Lech,Walewska, Countess Marie,
Warsaw: National Library; rebuilt,
Weber, Carl Maria von:
Der Freischütz
,
Weber, Fritz,
Weigelt, Klaus,
Wieck, Dorothea,
Wieck, Michael,
Wieck, Miriam,
Wiesenthal, Simon,
Wilhelm Gustloff
(ship),
William I, King of Prussia and German emperor,
William II, German Emperor: in Königsberg; dismisses Bismarck; speaks at Marienburg on domination; visits Schlobitten; and Prussian power; friendship with Eulenburg; toasted as King of Prussia; abdicates (1918); Marion Dönhoff despises; has Kant’s statue head placed on Frederick William II’s memorial; at Rominten; reign,
Wilno (earlier Vilnius): University; incorporated in Soviet Union; Poland annexes (1920),
Wilson, Sir Arnold,
Wilson, General Sir Henry,
Wirballen (Lithuania),
Władislaw II Jagiełło, King of Poland,
Wolff, Karl,
Wolf’s Lair (Wolfsschanze),
World War I (1914 – 18): outbreak; Russian – German conflict; initial war of movement; cemeteries and memorials, –
Wrocław
see
Breslau
Yantarny
see
Palmnicken
Yasnaya Polyana (formerly Trakehnen), near Kaliningrad,
Yeltsin, Boris,
Ypres (Belgium); In Flanders Fields Museum –
see
Palmnicken
Yasnaya Polyana (formerly Trakehnen), near Kaliningrad,
Yeltsin, Boris,
Ypres (Belgium); In Flanders Fields Museum –
Zeit, Die
(newspaper),
Zelenogradsk
see
Cranz
Zlomke, Dietrich,
Zollverein (German customs union),
Zweig, Arnold;
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
,
Zygmunt I Stary, King of Poland,
(newspaper),
Zelenogradsk
see
Cranz
Zlomke, Dietrich,
Zollverein (German customs union),
Zweig, Arnold;
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
,
Zygmunt I Stary, King of Poland,
Soviet housing on the river in Kaliningrad. © Willi Scharloff.
Eighteenth-century warehouses in pre-1945 Königsberg, with the castle tower in the distance. © Willi Scharloff.
Statue of Kant in Kaliningrad. © akg-images / Rainer Hackenberg.
Alfred Knox in ceremonial uniform. © Getty Images / Hulton Archive.
Kant’s tomb outside Königsberg cathedral. © Fred Frank.
Junker leader: Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau in Berlin. © akg-images / ullstein bild.
Käthe Kollwitz in a reflective mood. © Press Association Images.
Castle of the Teutonic Knights at Marienburg, now the Polish Malbork. © akg-images / Paul W. John.
Schlobitten: East Prussia’s Versailles. © Samlung Hans Joachim Kürtz, Kiel.
Marion Dönhoff. © akg-images / ullstein bild.
Red-brick defiance: the Tannenberg Memorial. © akg-images.
Immanuel Kant. © Bettmann / Corbis.
Hindenburg’s funeral. © Stapleton Collection / Corbis.
Steinort: what remains. © Claudio H. Artman / Alamy.
Agnes Miegel. © Süddeutsche Zeitung / Mary Evans Picture Library.
Thomas Mann outside the Nidden house with four of his children. © akg-images / ullstein bild.
Mann on the beach. © Topfoto / ullstein bild.
The Königsberg synagogue. © The Wiener Library Photo Archives.
Göring inspecting the kill at Rominten. Walter Frevert is behind him, to the left. © Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1990-0518-028 / photo: o.Ang.
The ruins of Königsberg cathedral. © Willi Scharloff.
Soviet triumphalism: the Monster goes up. © Willi Scharloff.
Hans von Lehndorff in old age. © akg-images / Interfoto / Friedrich.
ALSO BY MAX EGREMONT
NONFICTION
The Cousins
Balfour: A Life of Arthur James Balfour
Under Two Flags: The Life of Major General Sir Edward Spears
Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography
Balfour: A Life of Arthur James Balfour
Under Two Flags: The Life of Major General Sir Edward Spears
Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography
FICTION
The Ladies’ Man
Dear Shadows
Painted Lives
Second Spring
The Ladies’ Man
Dear Shadows
Painted Lives
Second Spring
Copyright © 2011 by Max Egremont
All rights reserved
Originally published in 2011 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Originally published in 2011 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Map by ML Design
eISBN 9781429969338
First eBook Edition : September 2011
First American edition, 2011
Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from Edmund Blunden’s “Can You Remember?” from
Edmund Blunden: Selected Poems
(1986), published by Carcanet Press.
Edmund Blunden: Selected Poems
(1986), published by Carcanet Press.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Egremont, Max, 1948 –
Forgotten land : Journeys among the ghosts of East Prussia / Max
Egremont.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-374-15808-8 (hardback)
1. Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)—History. 2. Germans—Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)—History. 3. Group identity—Prussia, East (Poland and Russia). 4. Egremont, Max, 1948—Travel—Prussia, East (Poland and Russia). I. Title.
DK4600.P775E47 2011
943.8’32—dc23
2011024559
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