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1454: 775: 1469: 878: 1784: 1492: 136: 607: 2730:"Kai kurie ir iš nepriklausomos Lietuvos išvažiuoja į Vokietiją, nes čia ne visiems pavyksta atgauti žemę ir sodybas, miestuose ir miesteliuose turėtus gyvenamuosius namus. Vis dar yra net nebandomų sudrausminti piktavalių, kurie lietuvininkams siūlo "grįžti" į "faterliandą"." Tr.: Even some from independent Lithuania have emigrated to Germany, because not all are able to have their land, farms and city homes returned. Some still want the Lietuvininkai to "return" to 1897:. Lithuanians did not read Prussian Lithuanian publications and vice versa; the cultural communication was very limited. Attempts to create a unified newspaper and common orthography for all Lithuanian speakers at the beginning of the 20th century were unsuccessful. After 1905, modern Lithuanian orthography was standardized while Prussian Lithuanian orthography remained the same – German Gothic script, a noun was begun with a capital letter, the letters 222: 572: 2932: 2995: 870: 1408:. Only about 2,000 local Lithuanians chose to remain in the Klaipėda Region and virtually none in the Kaliningrad Oblast. The majority of Prussian Lithuanians today live in the Federal Republic of Germany. Together with 65,000 refugees from Lithuania proper, mostly Roman Catholic, who made their way to the western occupation zones of Germany, by 1948 they had founded 158 schools in the Lithuanian language. 1626: 295: 74: 33: 543:) to denote Lithuanians of Lithuania Major. As with other closely related groups with differing religions (e.g. Northern Ireland, former Yugoslavia), antagonism was frequent between the Lutheran Prussian Lithuanians and the Catholic Lithuanians of the Grand Duchy, despite the common language. For example, inhabitants of Lithuania did not trust Prussian Lithuanians in the 1515:, traditions and folk culture. For centuries Prussian Lithuanians lived in a political and religious environment that was different from that of other Lithuanians and evolved into a separate ethnic group. The common state united some aspects of, traditions and folk culture. who viewed its rulers as their own rulers. Hanging portraits of the rulers of the 1237: 1352:
managed to flee by land or sea into those parts of Germany captured by the British and Americans. Among the latter were the pastors A. Keleris, J. Pauperas, M. Preikšaitis, O. Stanaitis, A. Trakis, and J. Urdse, who gathered those from the Lithuanian parishes and reorganised the Lithuanian church in the western zones of
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For Prussian Lithuanians loyalty to the German state, strong religious beliefs, and the mother tongue were the three main criteria of self-identification. Due to differences in religion and loyalties to a different state, the Prussian Lithuanians did not consider Lithuanians of the Grand Duchy to be
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After World War II, virtually no Prussian Lithuanians remained in Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast and only a small number survived in the Lithuanian SSR. Their peasant culture, first threatened by Germanization in the German Empire and politically oppressed in the Nazi era, was now completely wiped out
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The evacuation started late; the Red Army approached much faster than expected and cut off the territorial connection with other German-held territories by January 26, 1945. Many refugees perished due to Soviet low-flying strafing attacks on the civilians columns, or the extreme cold. However, many
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in 1871, when part of Lithuania became integrated with the new nation of Germany, learning the German language was made compulsory in state schools. Studying the German language provided the possibility for Prussian Lithuanians to become acquainted with Western European culture and values. However,
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The Red Army made no distinction between Germans of Prussian Lithuanian or German ethnicity. During the evacuation of East Prussia, Prussian Lithuanians, like other East Prussians, fled in an attempt to escape. Mass murder, rape, and looting were the common fate of those who did not succeed. After
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policy as a threat to their own culture and began to support German political parties, and even started identifying themselves as Germans. During the 1925 census, 37,626 people declared themselves to be Lithuanians and 34,337 people identified themselves as Memellanders, a neologism to distinguish
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After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Prussian Lithuanian activists living in Germany were persecuted. In 1938, Prussian and Lithuanian place names in East Prussia were translated into German or replaced by German names often unrelated to the Lithuanian toponym. For example, Lasdehnen (Lazdynai)
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during 1945–50. However, their homes and farms were not returned as either Russians or Lithuanians had already occupied their property. Prussians who remained in the former Memel (Klaipėda) territory were fired from their jobs and otherwise discriminated against. After the collapse of the Soviet
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status or reunification with Germany. Soon Lithuanian policies alienated the Prussian Lithuanians. People from Greater Lithuania were sent to assume public administration posts in the region. According to the Lithuanian view, the Prussian Lithuanians were Germanized Lithuanians who should be
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criticizes the tendency to adopt German ways, since this was often associated with decadent noblemen. Donelaitis called for Lithuanians to do their duty, to not envy those who went to town, to not complain or be lazy, and try to work as much as was needed to be a good peasant:
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in 1947. By 1945, there were only about 20,000 inhabitants left in the Klaipėda Region, compared to the 152,800 in 1939. The government of the Lithuanian SSR followed Soviet policy and viewed the Prussian Lithuanians as Germans. About 8,000 persons were repatriated from
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in the late 19th century was not popular with Prussian Lithuanians. To them integration with Lithuania was not understandable and not acceptable. The idea of Lithuanian–Latvian unity was more popular than idea of Lithuanian-Prussian Lithuanian unity during the
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Memellanderers defined themselves separately not by ethnicity but by birthplace. Traditionally they were more inclined towards the German element and German structures but they did not regard themselves as German. They did not regard themselves as Lithuanian
358:(Lithuania Major, or Lithuania proper). Prussian Lithuanians contributed greatly to the development of written Lithuanian, which for a long time was considerably more widespread and in more literary use in Lithuania Minor than in Lithuania proper. 693:, founded in 1544. Martynas Mažvydas was a zealous Protestant and urged citizens to stop all contact between Prussian Lithuanians and Lithuanians living in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in a bid to curtail Catholic influence in the country. 826:
Germanization also provoked a cultural movement among Prussian Lithuanians. In 1879 and 1896, petitions for the return of the Lithuanian language to schools was signed by 12,330 and 23,058 Prussian Lithuanians from the districts of
1811:, while in Prussia it was influenced more heavily by the German language. Thus, while Lithuanians used Slavic loanwords and translations, Prussian Lithuanians used German loanwords and translations, and some Slavic loanwords. 1276:) sought reunification with Germany or to create an independent state of Memelland and had a membership of 30,000 individuals. Two dozen pro-Lithuanian representatives of the Prussian Lithuanian National Council signed the 1747:) was also called Kurschat, in the Prussian Lithuanian language special forms were used in speech: the form of a wife's surname was Kurßaitê / Kurßatė and the form of an unmarried woman was Kurßaitikê / Kurßaitukê. 1299:, a Lithuanian professional counterintelligence officer, shows around 60 percent of the local inhabitants supported the revolt, 30 percent were neutral and 10 percent were against, namely the supporters of a 1453: 1422:. Until 1990, this secondary boarding school was the only Lithuanian school outside areas controlled by the Soviet Union. It was attended by several well-known exiled Lithuanians, such as the singer 1857:. Many other authors who wrote in Lithuanian were not Prussian Lithuanians, but local Prussian Germans: Michael Märlin, Jakob Quandt, Wilhelm Martinius, Gottfried Ostermeyer, Sigfried Ostermeyer, 1612:
by the Soviets, who made no distinction between Germans and Lithuanians. The situation was somewhat better in the former Memel Territory but even there churches and cemeteries were destroyed.
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Due to the emigration of many Lithuanians overseas and the assimilation of the remaining Prussian Lithuanians in Germany, the number of Lithuanian schools has now dwindled to only one,
774: 2920: 854:. The Prussian Lithuanians could publish their own newspapers and books, even helping Lithuanians in Russia to bypass their press ban by publishing their newspapers, such as 732:, which remained open until 1924. From the mid-18th century, a majority of Prussian Lithuanians were literate; in comparison, the process was much slower in the Grand Duchy. 1371:
the end of war, some Prussian Lithuanians tried to return to their East Prussian homes, but they were discriminated against and denied food rations by the Soviets.
2100: 1404:'s visit to Moscow in 1958, the former citizens of Germany were allowed to emigrate, and the majority of Prussian Lithuanians in the Lithuanian SSR emigrated to 1365: 2482: 1445:. However, a separate ethnic and cultural identity for Prussian Lithuanians is not as strong as it once was, and cultural differences are gradually vanishing. 3114: 1457:
Lietuvininkai attire and church clothing from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century (left and right) and folk costume from the
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A difference existed between female and male surnames in everyday speech. For example, while officially the wife of Kurschat (Prussian Lithuanian
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movement, which then spread among Prussian Lithuanians. In 1811 a teacher's seminary for Prussian Lithuanians was established in Karalene near
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was based on the German style, while in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania it was primarily based on the Polish style. Prussian Lithuanians used
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There were 121,345 speakers of Lithuanian in the Prussian census of 1890. Almost all Prussian Lithuanians were murdered or
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themselves from Lithuanians. Inhabitants of the Klaipėda Region continuously voted for German or German-oriented parties.
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Until the mid-19th century Prussian Lithuanians were mostly villagers. Their feudal mentality is reflected in the poem
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Since the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, Prussian Lithuanians have typically been bilingual.
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In 1951 about 3,500 people from the former Memel Territory were expelled by the authority of the Lithuanian SSR to
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Union, some Prussian Lithuanians and their descendants did not regain lost property in the Klaipėda region.
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Loyalty to state power, great religiosity and mother language were three self-identifying priorities of
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Books and newspapers that were published in Lithuania in Roman type were reprinted in Gothic script in
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between 1517 and 1527. Prussian Lithuanians used various names for themselves: Prussians (Lithuanian:
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and more than 90 percent of the deceased were Prussian Lithuanians. To compensate for the loss, King
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and tended to eliminate them from posts in government institutions. When Prussian Lithuanian writer
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policy until 1873; Prussian Lithuanians voluntarily adopted German language and culture. After the
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congregational movement attracted large numbers of Prussian Lithuanians: evangelical fellowships (
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The Lithuanian language of Prussian Lithuanians could be divided into two main dialects:
221: 3119: 2431: 1990:(born Joachim Fritz Krauledat), Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist, frontman of 1971: 1930:) was published in Tilsit in Gothic style until 1940, when it was closed by the Nazis. 1717: 1546:. About 40 percent of Lithuanians belonged to such fellowships, whose members lived by 1379: 1305: 1253: 851: 787: 721: 643: 362: 286: 2858: 2833:
Christoph Kairies. Das litauertum in Ostpreußen südlich des Memelstromes im jahre 1921
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The territory where Prussian Lithuanians lived in ancient times was inhabited by the
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was followed by severe economical hardships and inflation in Germany. In 1923, the
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in chronicles. Local tribes were resettled, either voluntarily or by force, in the
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Pėteraitis, Vilius; Vaclovas Bagdonavičius; Albertas Juška; et al. (2003).
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Pakajaus Paſlas!: Lietuwos Brolams bei Seſerims Diewo-Ʒodi ir Surinkimus apſakas
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Die ländliche verfassung in den einzelnen provinzen der Preussischen Monarchie
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were used, and the construction of sentences was different from Lithuanian.
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Ko neįstengė suprasti Lietuvos valdžia ir klaipėdiškiai 1923–1939 metais?
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Litauisches Gymnasium/Vasario 16-osios gimnazija (Lithuanian High School)
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was not closed down until 1940, during World War II. Church services in
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on the basis of Teodor Lepner's 1744 book "Der Preussische Litauer",
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to repopulate the area. Many of these Lutherans were members of the
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and from the former Klaipėda Region, which was transferred to the
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in German) appeared in German texts of the 16th century. The term
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The German language used by Prussian Lithuanians belongs to the
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Towns were not large. People who emigrated to the major towns,
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Prussian Lithuanians with national costumes in the 19th century
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Lithuanians in Prussia according to censuses of years 1825-1837
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Nuſidawimai apie Ewangēliôs Praſiplatinima tarp Źydû ir Pagonû
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Literature in the Lithuanian language appeared earlier in the
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Another type of Prussian Lithuanian surname use the suffixes "
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All who remained at the war's end were expelled from Soviet's
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or sometimes a neologism unknown to Lietuwininkai themselves,
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Lithuanian language in Prussia by Franz Oskar Tetzner in 1902
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speakers, who formerly inhabited a territory in northeastern
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Lead sinful lives, loaf, sleep too long and eat too much.
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Lithuanian-speaking population in the Kingdom of Prussia
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Publications Funded by the Foundation of Lithuania Minor
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A 1938 reproduction of the Act of Tilsit, signed in 1918
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After 1525, the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
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But here we simple boors, held by the lords as knaves,
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Why do these countless ills torment the luckless rich?
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Communities of Prussian Lithuanians have developed in
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in the parts of Lithuania that had become part of the
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in 1700–1721 which killed 53 percent of residents in
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It is because they scorn the fruitful work of boors,
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and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. After the 1422
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Work on the quick each day, as simple folk must do.
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The Prussian Lithuanian newspaper 1593:Fed on unwinnowed bread and pallid buttermilk, 1304:re-Lithuanized. Prussian Lithuanians saw this 2914: 2452:Gruodytė, Stefanija; Matulevičius, Algirdas. 2400: 2398: 1499:The Prussian Lithuanians that settled in the 1244:The northern part of East Prussia beyond the 782:The first Prussian Lithuanian elected to the 700:population was dramatically decreased by the 8: 2546: 2544: 1260:(Memelland) under the administration of the 210: 2506: 2504: 2502: 2500: 2101:Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas 1654:. Unsourced material may be challenged and 750:was dedicated to German Emperor Wilhelm I ( 689:, who became among the first professors at 371:Lutheran-Protestants (Evangelical-Lutheran) 61:Learn how and when to remove these messages 2921: 2907: 2899: 2715:"Tries knygos apie lietuvininkų tragediją" 2168: 2166: 2164: 2162: 2160: 2158: 2156: 2154: 2124:Alfredas Bumblauskas; et al. (2013). 884: 220: 209: 2681:"Trys knygos apie lietuvininkų tragediją" 2651:Mažosios Lietuvos Bažnyčia XVI-XX amžiuje 2327: 2276: 2251: 2249: 2247: 2190: 1674:Learn how and when to remove this message 1366:Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–50) 195:Learn how and when to remove this message 177:Learn how and when to remove this message 118:Learn how and when to remove this message 2849:Algirdas, Matulevičius (June 30, 1994). 2817:Map of languages in East Prussia in 1900 2599:"Klaipėdos krašto aneksija 1939–1940 m." 2305: 2303: 1288:occupied the Klaipėda Region during the 673:became duke of Prussia and converted to 484:(Memelland) during the interwar years – 380:, when East Prussia was divided between 2857:(in Lithuanian) (27–28). Archived from 2767:Mažosios Lietuvos kanklės-arfa. 1984 m. 2073:Nijolė Strakauskaitė (March 30, 2007). 2065: 520:part of their community. They used the 480:. Another similar term appeared in the 2666:Lietuvos Evangelikų Liuteronų Bažnyčia 1503:over the centuries were influenced by 1501:monastic state of the Teutonic Knights 1248:was detached from East Prussia at the 652:Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights 456:), or simply Lithuanians (Lithuanian: 361:Unlike most Lithuanians, who remained 2604:Gimtoji istorija. Nuo 7 iki 12 klasės 1463:The History Museum of Lithuania Minor 440:), Prussian Lithuanians (Lithuanian: 7: 1999:, a Lithuanian-German sniper in the 1829:was published between 1881 and 1939. 1652:adding citations to reliable sources 626:tribes. The area between the rivers 3115:German people of Lithuanian descent 1964:(born Wilhelm Storost), philosopher 1733:Kairies, Resgies, Baltßus, Karallus 881:Lithuania Minor within East Prussia 575:Distribution of the Baltic tribes, 2380:Elena Bukelienė (March 15, 1997). 1823:The Prussian Lithuanian newspaper 1317:1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania 810:. The 7th stanza was dedicated to 702:Great Northern War plague outbreak 646:. This uninhabited area was named 25: 2329:10.15388/SocMintVei.2001.1-2.7236 2278:10.15388/SocMintVei.2001.1-2.7236 2192:10.15388/SocMintVei.2001.1-2.7233 42:This article has multiple issues. 2993: 2930: 2459:Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija 2316:Sociologija. Mintis Ir Veiksmas. 2265:Sociologija. Mintis Ir Veiksmas. 1624: 597:History of the Germans in Poland 134: 72: 31: 2717:(in Lithuanian). Archived from 2580:von Haxthausen, August (1839). 2430:Bernardas Aleknavičius (2006). 2382:"Ieva Simonaitytė ir žemaičiai" 2179:Sociologija. Mintis Ir Veiksmas 2097:Mažosios Lietuvos Enciklopedija 1698:". It has the same role as the 476:), were neither politonyms nor 388:. 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Low German
Low Prussian dialect
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Kursenieki
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Lithuanian language
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