True. It's fiction, not history.
I realize that my upbringing makes me biased against them. Poles have romanticized their victory over the knights in 1410. In addition, the knights' evil has also been exaggerated in the Polish mind, though I don't think there is any denying that they were evil.
Instances of conversion by the sword are a major blot on Christendom, and there were few religious orders that were more notorious in this regard than the knights. Some of the Polish dukes in the North were complicit in it, too, I realize, but the knights were the main culprits in the extermination of the Old Prussians.
I am actually surprised to see someone defending the knights. Are they romanticized in German culture?
I’m not defending them. I’m absolutely indifferent about the knights. I’d probably find it interesting to read a history book on this episode, but that’s about it. I guess everybody here in Germany is on a similiar wavelength. Never heard anybody romanticizing about them.
If Poles are romanticizing this old victory that’Äs imo pretty poor.