Then there's Freddie Walzel, whose parents were the last from Silesia, Prussia, to settle in Silesia, Md. Not surprisingly, German was his first language, and, unlike the others, he has twice gone ...

For 1,000 years the dynamic Germans pushed the Slavic peoples eastward, across the Spree, across the Oder, out of Pomerania and Silesia, out of the flatlands of East Prussia. Now Germans—at ...

April 11th 1741, After The Battle of Mollwitz Frederick, had learned a great deal about war and the people of the world were enthralled by such a small power like Prussia taking over Silesia.

Most of Silesia had been German for centuries, either as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire or latterly of Prussia and it became part of unified Germany in 1871. The population in the heavily ...

Prussia herself, undertook, at its close, the ignominious task of "pacifying" a country with an army of 30,000 men, a considerable fleet, an enthusiastic population, a just cause, and a strong ...

Largely German and Austrian since the late Middle Ages, it was incorporated into Prussia in 1742, then ceded to Poland in 1945. Decades of relative poverty and neglect followed – which helped ...

Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke the 28-year-old 3,000-meter world record at the Silesia Diamond League, while Mondo Duplantis broke his pole vault record yet again. Ingebrigtsen finished in a staggering ...

Katarzyna Depa moved to the industrial region of Silesia, Poland, four years ago to study. She's young and delicate, and doesn't fit the typical archetype of a Polish miner—but she spends her ...

April 11th 1741, After The Battle of Mollwitz Frederick, had learned a great deal about war and the people of the world were enthralled by such a small power like Prussia taking over Silesia.