How Königsberg became Kaliningrad

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If you like my videos and want to make sure that I make more of them, you can support me here: https://ko-fi.com/sirmanatee • How did German Königsberg become Soviet Kaliningrad? This video gives a detailed overview of the city’s history from 1945 to 1970 and discusses the ideologies behind it, the material problems and why certain, rather controversial decisions were made. • Sources: • Brodersen, Per: Die Stadt im Westen. Wie Königsberg Kaliningrad wurde, Göttingen 2008. • Freeman, Jamie: From German Königsberg to Soviet Kaliningrad. Appropriating Place and Constructing Identity, Oxford New York 2021. • Gal’cova, Svetlana: Die Geschichte des Kaliningrader Gebietes in der sowjetischen Forschung, in: Nordost-Archiv. Zeitschrift für Regionalgeschichte 3 (1994), H. 2, S. 495-506. • Hoppe, Bert: Auf den Trümmern von Königsberg. Kaliningrad 1946-1970, München 2000. • Kossert, Andreas: Damals in Ostpreußen. Der Untergang einer deutschen Provinz, München 2010. • Sezneva, Olga: Living in the Russian Present with a German Past. The Problems of Identity in the City of Kaliningrad, in: Crowley, David Reid, Susan E. (Hg): Socialist Spaces. Sites of Everyday Life in Eastern Bloc, Oxford 2002, S. 47-64. • Smith, Mark B.: Khrushchev’s promise to eliminate the urban housing shortage. Rights, rationality and the communist future, in: Ilic, Melanie Smith, Jeremy (Hg.): Soviet State and Society Under Nikita Khrushchev, London 2009. • Music Used: • Dvorak - Serenade for Strings • Hallen - Die Toteninsel • Sibelius - Cassazione • Tchaikovsky - Valse Sentimentale • Chapters: • 0:00 Introduction • 0:41 Königsberg in Ruins • 2:57 A New History of East Prussia • 4:48 First Architectural Plans • 8:07 The Housing Problem • 10:39 Monuments • 12:13 The Fate of The Königsberg Castle • 14:49 The Current Situation • 15:43 Outro

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