The German plan did not contemplate giving up East Prussia. It was a land of rich farms and wide meadows, where Holstein cattle grazed, pigs and chickens scuttled about inside stonewalled farmyards, where the famous Trakehnen stud bred remounts for the German Army and where the large estates were owned by Junkers who, to the horror of an English governness employed by one of them, shot foxes instead of hunting them properly on horseback.
