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A collection of links related to the City of Königsberg and East Prussia. If any of these links are not working - or you have a link you believe maybe of interest here - please use the comment form to let me know about it.
Exceptional Site with 400+ side-by-side photos of 1939/to present day identical locations in Königsberg/Kaliningrad (Russian-German) The author of this site made it a life-time project to find images of pre-war Königsberg and compare them with present day Kaliningrad.
Extensive flickr photo site about Königsberg and other East Prussian areas! (German) Königsberg truly comes to life in the slide shows, which are extremely well laid out, blending images of different times until today, and include some photoghraphs of the incredible war-time damage inflicted on the city by the RAF bombing raids of 1944.
Max Popov (Moscow) collection of Konigsberg Photographs (Entirely Russian site) A site containing hundreds of pre-war images of Königsberg and surrounding areas. Well worth a visit.
History of a Konigsberger Family (German / English) This is a touching site dedicated to the author's Grand Parents who were orginally from Königsbergs, and contains some memories of family members of what it was like to live in that city.
Wilhelm Gustloff Maritime Disaster - Like the apparent silence around the wartime destruction of the City of Königsberg and the expulsion of over 10 million Germans from their homelands, present day accounts of WWII remain largely silent about the largest maritime disaster of all times, the sinking of the the ocean liner ‘Wilhelm Gustloff’ by a Russian submarine in Jan 1945. It had amongst fleeing German soldiers 10,000 civilian refugees ahead of Stalin's advancing Red Horde on board who formed the majority of the 7,700 victims that went down with the ship.
Impressive Interactive Map site for East Prussia
In Forgotten Land, English author Max Egremont describes his travels among the old lands of East Prussia, bringing to the task a deep knowledge of modern history and the proficiency of an experienced writer. The book is a mixture of history, travel-writing and personal interviews, a fascinating mix which builds up a compelling picture of these lands and the changes that the last couple of centuries, particularly the post-Second World War settlement, have brought to them.
Extensive Wikipedia article on East Prussia is an excellent summary of its historyand what happened to that largely forgotten region of Eastern Europe.