Ostsiedlung

>>3044356
Firstly Germans created colonial cities and towns, then they converted the pagans under a german church hierarchy. They then absorbed the old Prussian population through intermarriage and outbreeding. There were some old Prussian communities which survived unto the 16th-18th centuries and only married within their own culture like the Sorbs of east Germany.

>>3044356
>After the conquest of Prussia by the Teutonic Order, how did they manage to turn them into Germans (aka German LARPers)?


Protestant reformation which elevated German into the language of the Church, thus making it the language of prestige. Before that the Germanization had rather meager results.

It's worth notice that Catholic areas like Upper Silesia or Warmia didn''t flip their language into German.

>>3044356
It was barely settled and Germans reproduced in record numbers. In order to compete and participate in the trades, they local tribes had to assimilate sooner or later. Also for the nobility the German culture was very attractive.