Five years earlier, Gunter Grass had published Crabwalk, a fictionalised account of the 1945 sinking of a ship bearing thousands of
East Prussian refugees.
Von Boeselager's unit delivered a suitcase full of explosives which was later left by Claus von Stauffenberg in Hitler's
East Prussian military headquarters in July, 1944.
The Wolves of World War II: An
East Prussian Soldier's Memoir of Combat and Captivity on the Eastern Front is the true-life story of author and
East Prussian farmer Hans Thiel, who was conscripted into military service on September 1944, close to the end of World War II.
At first I put this inability down to the combination of their Swabian-pietistic and
East Prussian origins.
But the
East Prussian (since 1945 Russian) enclave on the Baltic has hidden treasures, old and new.
Particular attention will be given to those works set in the former
East Prussian territories where he spent his childhood and youth.
I don't fully remember Malaya (though I do recall a family walk in which we found a military helmet with skull still in situ); but in Germany I was quite old enough to realise the implications of the two elderly
East Prussian refugees living (unofficially, but we weren't telling) in our basement.
The ship never quite comes in for period seaside saga "Elze's Life," an
East Prussian spin on "Romeo and Juliet" from vet helmer Algimantas Puipa Visually ravishing but overlong, pic could reel in theatrical dates in appropriate territories but seems more likely to be hooked by fests looking for a rare catch from Lithuanian waters.
The Russian Peter and the Prussian Heloise are drawn to one another and fall in love, but this is the spring of 1945 in the
East Prussian sector of war, and Peter, for reasons not clear to the reader or himself, eventually takes out his service pistol and kills Heloise.
In 1861, an
East Prussian couple emigrated to Detroit, bringing with them four sons, five daughters, and a secret that would last for more than a century.