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Teutonic Knights: Centuries
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The Teutonic Knights were at their strongest at the end of the 14th century. They had great influence in the Baltic Sea and were very much a threat to the Nordic countries. Their presence was one of the reasons for Queen Margareta to try to establish a strong union between Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
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Amazing photos of the Hill of Crosses in Siauliai, Lithuania, a small hill where hundreds of thousands of crosses have been deposited by pilgrims since the town was raided by Teutonic Knights in the 14th Century. Link (via Geisha Asboi)
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The Kingdom of the Teutonic Knights was a buffer state between the Republic of the Two Nations and the Orthodox Empire. During the last century the Kingdom has fought off attempted invasions by the Russians as they push to gain a port along the Baltic Sea.
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During World War II, Nazi propaganda and ideology made frequent use of the Teutonic Knights' imagery, as the Nazis sought to depict the Knights' actions as a forerunner of the Nazi conquests for Lebensraum. Heinrich Himmler tried to idealize the SS as a 20th century incarnation of the medieval knights.
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