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Dec 13, 2021 · Re. what happened to Prussia after WWII: East Prussia was split between Poland and the Soviet Union. West Prussia had been mostly Polish since after WWI, but now Danzig/Gdansk also became Polish. The other areas of the state of Prussia stayed mostly in Germany, but significant parts also became Polish (Silesia, the eastern half of Pomerania ...
What if Germany kept the Prussian and Silesian territories after they lost WW2? What if Germany was split in two as in the original time with an allied controlled west and a Soviet controlled East. The Soviet controlled eastern Germany would include Prussia, Silesia and the areas the Soviets controlled in the original timeline.
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Günther Grass, a famous author and nobel prize winner from Danzig wrote numerous books which somewhat pick up that theme and perhaps challenge the silence surrounding what happened in the east at the end of the war. As for Prussia, I don't think most people care at all. Prussia is not viewed particularly positively and mostly forgotten.
In winter and spring 1945, huge numbers of Germans from Pomerania, Silesia and East Prussia fled to the west before the approaching Red Army. Those who didn't manage to escape were in the difficult situation of people deprived of civil rights.
East Prussia and Danzig are going to be annexed by Poland and/or the Soviet Union in any scenario, so it would be ASB for those to states to survive after WW2. The real question is if Pomerania and Silesia could somehow be kept be Germany, and I presume that you believe this to be, at best, unlikely to downright implausible at worst?
The mutilated corpses of women and children lie in the East Prussian village of Metgethen in February 1945. After the German 5th Panzer Division briefly retook the area, an officer from the nearby Königsberg fortress expressed his horror: “All were completely undressed and huddled up in a pile.
Antony Beevor describes it as the "greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history" and concludes that at least 1.4 million women were raped in East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia alone. According to the Soviet war correspondent Natalya Gesse, Soviet soldiers raped German females from eight to eighty years old.
