the Hochmeister's ceremonial regalia itself even though they abolished the said order. The converse was true for Polish nationalism (see: Sienkiewicz "The Knights of the Cross"), which used the Teutonic Knights as symbolic shorthand for Germans in general, conflating the two into an easily recognisable image of the hostile. Similar associations were used by Soviet propagandists, such as the Teutonic knight villains in the 1938 Sergei Eisenstein film Aleksandr Nevskii. See also Iron Cross Knights Templar Prussian virtues Sovereign Military Order of Malta Teutonic Knights in popular culture Notes References External links The order's homepage in Germany The order's homepage in Austria Territorial extent of the Teutonic Knights in Europe (map) An Historical Overview of the Crusade to Livonia, by William Urban "The Early Years of the Teutonic Order", by William Urban Museum in the residential castle of the Teutonic Order in Bad Mergentheim Zwaetzen and the German Order in Central Germany "Massive Ceremonial Hall Discovered Under Crusader Castle in Northern Israel" – Haaretz, Nov.22, 2018 This contains a detailed chronological history of the Order, and is itself based on Heinrich von Treitschke Das deutsche Ordensland Preussens, in Historische und politische Aufsätze, vol. II. (Leipzig, 1871), and on Johann Loserth Geschichte des späteren Mittelalters (Munich and Berlin, 1903). 1190 establishments in Asia 1190 establishments in Europe Christian religious orders established in the 12th century Kingdom of Jerusalem