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The Teutonic Order's Baltic Crusade and the Making of Prussia
In Episode 218 of The History of Germany, Lucas and Luna trace the Teutonic Order's Baltic crusade from its thirteenth-century campaigns against the pagan Prussians to the creation of a monastic state that would eventually become the Duchy of Prussia. They examine the role of Hermann von Salza, the Order's grand master who balanced imperial and papal politics; the brutal conquest of the Prussian tribes and the subsequent colonization by German settlers; the rise of the brick-built fortress of Marienburg as a center of power; and the gradual transformation of the Order's mission…
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