Between accomplice and victim: Civilians during the siege of Kö- nigsberg in 1945
... April 1945. It will discuss the scope of coercion and the living condition in the city, as well as the reasons why civilians decided to stay in Königsberg. Their large presence makes them impossible to overlook if one is to construct a view of the siege of Königsberg.
1. Галицкий К. Н. В боях за Восточную Пруссию. Записки командующего 11-й гвардейской армией. М., 1970.
2. Государственный архив Калининградской ...
I.P. Khmelnitsky at the Königsberg University of the 18th century
This article offers a review of the activities of I.P. Khmelnitsky at the Königsberg University of the 1760s, examines the ideational and philosophical context, and identifies the role and position of Khmelnitsky in the intellectual polemics of the mid-18th century. The author emphasises that D. Weymann referred to Khmelnitsky’s ...
A Königsberg society of friends without Kant
The legends about dinner parties of Immanuel Kant’s friends have been known since the times of his first biographers and other contemporaries. However, there were other communities of friends in Königsberg. Gathering friends at a dining table for the purpose of intellectual communication became a tradition in Königsberg in the 17th/18th centuries. This tradition created a sub-system of creative communication and leisure bringing together both ...
Dialektik als Logik des Scheins. Zu Kants Lektüre von Michael Piccarts Isagoge
An unrecognised copy (1665) in Kant’s private library of Michael Piccart’s Isagoge (1605), an introduction to the system of Aristotelian philosophy together with Kant’s own remarks ... ... 86). Hereby, dialectics is understood as part of an Aristotelian division of logic in analytics, dialectics and sophistics (Königsberg/Rabe versus Altdorf/Piccart). As will be shown by the paradigmatic case of the famous Königsbergian proponent of ...
Festung Königsberg in 1945: The garrison and its population. A reply to G. V. Kretinin’s remarks
... Zeugnis vom Untergang einer Stadt. Augsburg, 1998.
21. Wieck M. A childhood under Hitler and Stalin, Memoirs of a “certified” Jew. Madison, 2003.
Willems B. (translated from the English by I. O. Dementyev)
East Prussia, civilians, memory distortion, siege of Königsberg
23-31
Implicit memory, or Once again on German civilians in Königsberg during the fortress siege in February — April 1945
Within a polemic with B. Willems's article, the author analyses the size of civilian population of Königsberg remaining in the city during the siege of 1945. The article considers approaches of Soviet and German command to evaluating the role of civilians in defending the fortress during the siege.
1. Вик М. Закат Кёнигсберга: Свидетельство немецкого ...
The identity and collective memory of Kaliningraders in recent Polish studies
This paper is a review of recent Polish studies on identity and collective memory in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation. Polish authors ... ... регион. 2011. № 2 (8). С. 127—138.
2. Hojszyk W. Dzieje Kaliningradu i jego mieszkańców widziane z Olsztyna // Königsberg — Królewiec — Kaliningrad: dziedzictwo historyczne / red. K. Jarosz. Węgorzewo, 2013. S. 68—72.
3. Jarosz ...
