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“The history of Prussia is not a history of the genesis of a nation. Having arisen originally as a military colony of the Teutonic Order”

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Book:Marx and Engels on Reactionary Prussianism

Source: Marx and Engels on Reactionary Prussianism

“Prussia, which was not a German region, had long before been a scene of activity of the Knights of the Teutonic Order. For a hundred years these ‘cur- knights’, as Marx called them, waged a war of extermination against the native population, the Prussians.”

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Book:Marx and Engels on Reactionary Prussianism

Source: Marx and Engels on Reactionary Prussianism

“in the historic Battle of Lake Peipus, Alexander Nevsky, in 1242, routed the cohorts of the Teutonic Order which had invaded Russian territory”

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Book:Marx and Engels on Reactionary Prussianism

Source: Marx and Engels on Reactionary Prussianism