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Germans founded a lot of very temporary trading outposts in eastern Europe but during the period of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania they'd have a decently large population around the village of Kobryn and around the city of Polotsk.
The settlers had come like many other ethnicities, but mainly Germans, to settle in the lands of Russia. This is to work land which wasn't worked and in the case of Volga Germans they served the same purpose as Transylvania Saxons, to work the land and defend it. 



Freikorps Oberland was an organisation strongly tied to the early NSDAP and some of its prominent members would go on to become high ranking members. 




Should as well specify, he barely spoke Icelandic even as a child and his knowledge as a child was minimal. He is a blood son of Iceland, but the culture barely affected him unless through his dad who had moved there when he was a young man.





It also houses the Hohenzollern Crypt where 94 members of the House of Hohenzollern are buried. The oldest of them buried, Johann Georg von Brandenburg, was born nearly 500 years ago. 


Commemorative zinc plaque from 1920. The plaque is of a naked soldier protecting a seedling with his hand, supposed to be symbolic of the Freikorp soldier protecting Germany. 

They formed a part of the Hunnic Empire when it invaded, the Ostrogoths their overlords. They'd follow the Ostrogoths and Huns in raids into Rome which helped enrich them and after the fall of the Huns this helped give the kingdom power and stability.



There are a few legends, one which most famous involves 2 men making fun of a priest and steal items from the church, the priest then prays for God to punish these godless men. He was warned of a storm the same night and Rungholt perished, all but him and 2 church goers dead. 
https://twitter.com/wulfariks/status/1670499584248872961


The Dutch have been by far the most succesful in this battle, but for a long time the Saxons, Frisians and Dutch had been raising dikes and attempting to stop the periodic flooding of their lands that caused massive expulsions, death and damage. 

