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State capital: Berlin
Germany's defeat in World War I, and the subsequent overthrow of the Empire and the Prussian monarchy, ended Prussia's supremacy. As a result of the Treaty of Versailles and the ensuing plebiscite, Prussia lost part of Silesia, Posen, West Prussia, Danzig, Memel, northern Schleswig, some small areas on the Belgian frontier, and the Saar district. It became a state (Land) under the Weimar Republic with more restricted powers and with little influence on the government of the Reich. After the Nazis' rise to power in 1933, the Prussian constitution was set aside and its legislature abolished, although Prussia remained an administrative unit.
Prussia's transformation, from aristocratic heart of the Hohenzollern Empire to bulwark of the Weimar Republic, was one of the most dramatic aspects of Weimar history. The political division of Prussia was now the same as it had been when Prussia was a kingdom dominated by the German Empire. As a constituent state of the Weimar Republic, Prussia consisted of a number of provinces. These provinces were former duchies, principalities, or kingdoms annexed by or merged with Prussia during the course of the nineteenth century.
In 1945, after its defeat in World War II, Germany came under the control of the victorious Allies. The northern part of East Prussia was annexed by the Soviet Union; the rest of Prussia east of the Oder-Neisse line was transferred to Poland; and the remainder of Prussia was divided among the Soviet, British, and French zones of occupation. One of the few acts of the Allied Control Council was the formal abolition of Prussia. (en-US)
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The Times Atlas of World History. Edited by Geofrey Barraclough. Third Edition. Maplewood, New Jersey: Hammond, 1989.