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East Prussia

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East Prussia

Former easternmost province of Prussia, between the Vistula and Neman rivers. In 1919 the creation of the Polish Corridor separated it from the rest of Germany, and in 1945 the province was divided between the USSR and Poland.



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On July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, a Catholic, and three others carried a bomb into Hitler's bunker in East Prussia intending to kill him, but it misfired and Hitler escaped death.
Yet Kasson has failed to deal with the obvious point that Sandow from East Prussia and Houdini (a Jew whose family had emigrated from Hungary), however they were interpreted, were themselves outsiders in American society.
She tells of her life as Hitler's personal secretary, working with him on his special train; at Berchtesgaden, his Bavarian residence; and in the Wolf's Lair, his field headquarters in East Prussia.
 
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