For centuries Prussians had a strong ethic values and supreme soldiers. Regardless of battle their legacy traditions and values always lived on. Is there any remainder of this today? Has their legacy continued?
Was it or did WWII defeat their culture and ideology completely?
What happened to the Prussians
Joshua Thompson
Zachary Walker
They did not. The second great war was not a war against Hitler or Nazism or even Germany in general.
It was a war against Prussia, and they needed some sort of excuse to justify actually renaming, disorganizing, and erasing every single part of it.
Landon Diaz
they got genocided
Ian Sanders
After WW2, the Germans in East Prussia were either killed or fled West to what remained of Germany, Russia sent their own people to colonize Konigsberg and the Poles moved up north to the Baltic. So all land that they moved from were occupied.
Carter Myers
>Did WWII defeat their culture and ideology completely.
Unironically yes. The 'De-nazification' process was coupled with a 'de=prussianization' of Germany as the Allies believed it was Prussian morals, traditions, militarism etc. that was responsible for Nazism. So Prussia was 'de jure' abolished in 1947 and it's core lands with the exception of Brandenburg were ethnically cleansed from 1944-1948. After the war German liberals and democrats were eager to accept this new allied narrative (They never like Prussia's authoritarianism in the first place, even after 1871) and new history books were written, different schools of historiography introduced all to make the new (West) Germany more liberal and democratic. These days some Prussian virtues such as order, discipline and timeliness (In the bureaucratic manner) still exist among some older people. Unfortunately though for many Germans Prussia and the German Empire is seen as little more than a proto Nazi Germany. Ethnically speaking though the Rhineland has a lot of the descendants of the ethnically cleansed Germans from Prussia's former territories although I don't really know how many of them even know about their lost heritage.
Luis Cook
uncle joe strikes again.
Angel Torres
Redpill here is that Prussian originally referred to a tribe of Baltic people. They were more akin to Estonians and Lithuanians than Germans. German (and some Slavic) farmers colonized the area and started calling themselves Prussians. There's evidence of them (the Germanic variety) taking up land in the Americas (both North and South) after WWII.
Chase Miller
The Prussians live on in us Hans.
Nathan Thomas
It wasn't just East Prussia. Volga Germans and those living in the Soviet Union were deported to Central Asia by Stalin. Alsatian Germans were forbidden from speaking German and Francoized. Yugoslavia completely ethnically cleansed their German population as did Czechoslovakia with the Sudenten Germans. Romania and Hungary also cleansed many of their Germans. Germans living in Poland were then cleansed and then of course Germans from Eastern Germany itself were ethnically cleansed from Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia and Eastern Brandenburg. All in all 12-14 million people last I remember, making it the largest ethnic cleansing in modern European history.
Carson Barnes
Prussia would’ve stood in the way of their agenda that they push today. Out of all the European nations, Germany (and Prussia by extension) would have (and did) fought the Communist/Progressive forces.
Prussia needed to be destroyed in order to pave the way for the shit culture we live in now.
RIP Prussia and all her glory.
Jason Wood
German language was harshly repressed in the leadup to and during WWI in the States. You can thank the Anglos and Jews for that
Nathan Barnes
Lots of the Germans who migrated to the US in the 19th Century were Prussians as well
Jace Gray
Yep, most of which were just farmers and had no involvement in the war.
Kevin Hill
Allies pissed their pants at everything prussian and tried to brainwash it out of us.
If theyre still alive?
Let yourself get surprised....
Samuel Hall
prussian culture was built around 19th century military and industrial technology. after those systems became outdated, prussian culture was assimilated into the greater north german group, or became slavic after polish independent
Bentley Sanders
>lets replace the little culture we have with niggers, foreskin mutilation and mcdonalds
>lets not question why we put civilians on a military transport carrying ammo
Joshua Myers
Prussia have conquered Germany and now is known under this title. It maintained autonomy as a region within the country but after the WWII it was declared the source of militarism and all the evils and the autonomy was dismissed.
Samuel Cruz
>They were more akin to Estonians and Lithuanians
1. Estonians have nothing in common with Balts.
2. Prussians belong to the western balts, while Lithuania and Latvia belong to the degenerated branch of east balts.
James Perez
>has their legacy continued
The Chilean army still practices Prussian style military drill if that counts for anything
Robert Lewis
>(((berg)))
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Isaac Jenkins
Prussia didn't unite conquer Germany. It united it under a Federal system akin to Great Britain with each kingdom/duchy/free city/principality maintaining it's sovereignty within a larger Federal structure (The German Reich). After WWI despite losing land this system remained in place until 1935 (I think) when Hitler abolished the Federal system and turned Germany into a unitary state with power centralised in Berlin (Under his own person in other words). So technically the Kingdom of Prussia was 'de jure' abolished along with the other existing structures of government. In 1947 though Prussia was 'de facto' abolished by the Allies as you said - the source militarism and all other evils stemming from Nazism and Germany itself.
Yes I know. German churches, publishers, newspapers, language schools etc. were also suppressed or shut down. Some Germans were even hanged.
Aiden Long
No, Konigsberg did not contain many Jews. It was the main city of Prussia
Andrew Carter
Their thrid way got phucked by capitalists and commies.