Teutonic Order Quotes

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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”
Mark Borisovich Mitin, 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”
Mark Borisovich Mitin, 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.”
Mark Borisovich Mitin, Marx and Engels on Reactionary Prussianism