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There is no doubt that the whole thing is very strange. For the German war criminals in World War II, no matter where they originally lived, they would try to escape East Germany as much as possible. Compared with West Germany, which tolerated war criminals, East Germany can be said to have liquidated war criminals more thoroughly.

Therefore, it is strange that a man with a medal for counter-guerrilla warfare still chooses to live in East Germany. At least it is unlikely that normal people would take such a big risk to do so.

What a puzzling combination. I think we may need some more detailed clues - Joan of Arc thought for a while and sighed, By the way, what is written in this lighter?

It's an ancient German slogan: Always chaste, abstain from sexual desires, be loyal until death, and pledge to be poor, followed by a poem praising the Teutonic knights who died in Lake Chude. Liang En said after translating it.

However, unlike the officially circulated version, this poem has been rewritten. It calls the knights who died in the battle martyrs, and praises them for occupying the vacancies left by Lucifer after his fall and becoming angels in heaven.

There is no doubt that this statement is unchristian, for martyrs can become saints who can perform miracles, but they cannot become angels.

Although the Teutonic Knights spread Catholicism to the ancient Prussians, they were also influenced by the ancient Prussian religion. Joan of Arc nodded after listening to Liang En's comments.

At least in my eyes they are pragmatists. Compared to the Knights Templar or the Knights Hospitaller, their piety is really hard to describe.

Two years before Joan of Arc was born, the famous Battle of Grinwald broke out. A 39,000-strong Polish-Lithuanian army under the command of Polish King Vladislav Jagiello launched a decisive battle with an army of about 27,000 Teutonic Knights near Tannenberg and Grinwald.

The Teutonic Knights lost all their elite in this battle. 8,000 knights were killed, 2,000 were captured, and most of the leaders, such as the Grand Master of the Knights, von Jungingen, were killed.

The Teutonic Knights never recovered from the fall, and Poland gradually regained its lost territory and gained towns such as Gdansk and the Baltic Sea outlet.

The Battle of Tanlonberg dealt a devastating blow to the Knights, and its significance was similar to that of the Battle of Hattin to the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Kingdom of the Knights thus embarked on the path of decline.

After the disastrous defeat in the foreign war, the Kingdom of the Knights fell into civil strife from top to bottom. The peasants were dissatisfied with the excessive taxation of the Knights and rebelled; the power struggle within the Knights became more and more intense; the centrifugal force of cities and local nobles became stronger and stronger because of the high taxes they paid.

In this case, the Teutonic Knights that Joan had seen with her own eyes gave her a very bad feeling, so she naturally did not think highly of them after hearing Liang En talk about the Teutonic Knights.

In the long period that followed, the Knights went from bad to worse. In 1440, 53 nobles and 19 cities established the Prussian Alliance in Marienburg to resist the tyrannical rule of the Knights.

In 1453, the Prussian Alliance formed an alliance with Poland, which triggered a war that lasted for 13 consecutive years, which did not end until the Second Peace of Torun was signed in 1466 (Thirteen Years' War).

This peace resulted in the Knights losing a large amount of territory, including Marienburg. Politically, the Kingdom of the Knights must recognize its submission to Poland, which caused great controversy within the Knights.

The German mission hoped to gain support from the Holy Roman Empire and the Holy See. In 1494, the leader of the German mission recognized submission to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I.

Affected by external and internal troubles, the Kingdom of the Knights at this time has reached the end of its rope. Luther's Reformation brought the Knights once again to a watershed in history.

In 1511, the 21-year-old Albrecht from the Hohenzollern family was elected as the 37th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. He was also the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights as a military order.

At the suggestion of Luther, the famous religious reformer at the time, Albrecht resigned as Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, secularized the Knights' country, changed it into a principality, and carried out religious reforms within the principality.

The conservative forces within the Knights and the German Catholic nobles were very dissatisfied with his conversion. However, in 1527, he married the daughter of King Frederick I of Denmark, a powerful northern country. The opposition had nothing to do with him.

Albrecht's conversion brought the Teutonic Knights' history as a military order to an end. Prussia, which originally belonged to the Kingdom of the Knights, had been Protestantized by Albrecht, Livonia was occupied by Poland, and Estonia was annexed by Sweden. The Kingdom of the Knights no longer had a territory of its own.

In 1809, after Napoleon invaded Germany, he announced the dissolution of the Teutonic Knights as a military organization. The Knights only had a place in Austria. It was not until 1834 that the Austrian Emperor reestablished the Order and made it a religious charity.

In 1929, the Teutonic Knights were reorganized into a purely religious order, and their name was changed from OT (Ordo Teutonicus) to DO (Deutscher Orden).

Today, the Deutsches Mission has become a charitable organization, has established numerous clinics, and initiated numerous tourism and archaeological projects in Israel.

Currently, the German Mission has approximately 1,000 members, including 100 Catholic priests, 200 nuns, and 700 staff. These priests and nuns were spread across the continent.

From this perspective, the Teutonic Knights have returned to their original goal when they were first established in the Middle Ages, which was to provide spiritual and medical help to Germans abroad.

But there is a question, why would the other party engrave information related to the Teutonic Knights in the lighter. After complaining about the Knights, Jeanne asked curiously. If I remember correctly, the two are incompatible.

Many people think that the Teutonic Knights have some special connection with the German crisps. After all, during World War II, their flags, military flags and a series of things, such as the famous Iron Cross, came from the Teutonic shape. knight.

Especially for people in China, the first thing they accepted about Western European history was the history from the former Soviet Union. In this part of history, they mainly adopted the Teutonic Knights, which the Poles said were the earliest ancestors of German militarism. Voice.

Therefore, even when Liang En studied the issue about the Teutonic Knights for the first time, he subconsciously felt that these people should have colluded with Lacui in World War II.

But this was not actually the case. In 1938, after Austria was annexed by Germany, the Deutsche Bundes was made an illegal organization and banned.

Although the Teutonic Knights' emblems and symbols were widely used, and Himmler also imitated the Teutonic Knights to establish a secret organization within the Guards, the Teutonic Knights were dominated by Germany throughout World War II. prohibit.

Fortunately, Mussolini took in the exiles of the Deutschland for unknown purposes, allowing the organization to survive in that chaotic era and be rebuilt in the following years.

In other words, the real Teutonic Knights and spicy Germany in World War II can be said to be incompatible. Therefore, it feels very strange to find such traces left by two incompatible parties in one place.

Incongruous places often hide secrets. Liang En said looking at these two things, So I believe these things are not as simple as they seem, and there should be some secrets hidden.