Königsberg

Historic Prussian name of Kaliningrad

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August 2017 Died in August at the age of 99 after battling cancer, having returned to Germany and residing in a public assisted-living facility in Baden-Baden.
August 29 2017 Kurt Dahlmann passed away at the age of 99, concluding a life of military service, journalism, and political activism.
July 24 2017 Died on 24 July 2017, concluding a long career as a high-ranking Stasi officer.
July 24 2017 Passed away at the age of 90, having been a Major general in the East German Ministry for State Security.
2015 A photograph of Goldberg was mistakenly used on a monument to 'Protectors of Motherland' in Tobolsk, Russia, as a surrogate for a Red Army soldier. The image was subsequently corrected.
2010 German classical metal band Coppelius, named after a character from Hoffmann's 'The Sandman', releases their album Zinnober featuring a track titled 'Klein Zaches'.
December 2010 Goldberg was featured in the TV series Nazi Collaborators episode 'The Jews Who Fought for Hitler', first screened in the UK.

This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles E. T. A. Hoffmann, Kurt Dahlmann, Werner Goldberg & Bernhard Elsner, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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