This region was once the northern part of East Prussia, with the remaining southern portion now forming part of Poland's Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Following Nazi Germany's defeat in World War ...

Allied with France and Britain, Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian commander, agreed to help relieve the French, under attack from Germany, with an offensive in East Prussia. This required mobility ...

Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) was born in East Prussia (now Poland), the son of a lottery-office keeper. He went to the University of Leipzig to pursue a career in medicine. By the time he graduated in ...