Displaced Communities
BALTIC GERMANS (150,000
displaced by Hitler & Stalin; 95%+)
GERMANS OF YUGOSLAVIA
(over 200,000 expelled, imprisoned, displaced, emigrated; 98.5% total)
VOLGA GERMANS (over 400,000 expelled by Soviets to Kazakhstan)
DUTCH GERMANS (3,691 expelled,
15% of German population)
GERMANS OF ALSACE-LORRAINE
(100-200,000 expelled after WWI)
GERMANS OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
(over 3,000,000 expelled
and displaced; 95% total)
GERMANS OF HUNGARY
(over 100,000 expelled, over
300,000 displaced; 88% of total)
GERMANS OF ROMANIA
(over 700,000 or 91.5% displaced by Hitler, USSR, & emigration)
US Internment of German-Americans, Japanese, & Italians
(10,906+ interned & blacklisted) NEW!
GERMANS OF POLAND, PRUSSIA
(over 5,000,000 expelled and displaced, nearly 100%) COMING SOON
GERMANS OF RUSSIA/UKRAINE
(nearly 1,000,000 to Germany and Kazakhstan) COMING SOON
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"British Political Responses to the German Refugee Crisis during Occupation" NEW!
From Poland, to Czechoslovakia, to Occupied Germany: My Flight from the Red Army to the West
(memoir about wartime flight & Jewish, Polish, & German daily life near Auschwitz) NEW!
Daily Diary of Forced Labor in the Mines of Soviet Ukraine NEW!
The problem of classifying German expellees as a 'genocide'
Why the German, Czech, and Polish governments reject expellee commemoration
Distorted historical memory and ethnic nationalism as a cause for forgetting expellees
Ethnic bias and nationalist revisionism among scholars as a cause for forgetting expellees
The History and Failure of Expellee Politics and Commemoration NEW!
Expellee scholarship on the occupations of Czechoslovakia and the Sudetenland, 1918-1945
Sexual Violence and Gender in Expellee Scholarship and Narratives
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In Memoriam: Your Expellee
Relatives & Survivors
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If you wish to make a donation directly to honoring or supporting the commemoration of expelled Germans, donate money or support to relevant government and legal proponents. The Federation of Expellees (Bund der Vertriebenen) and the Prussian Trust are two political lobbies in Germany funding restitution and commemoration interests. The Centre Against Expulsion (Zentrum gegen Vertriebung) is a generalized museum foundation being organised in Germany to commemorate the tragedies of expulsion in general, but plans to devote a portion to the over 10,000,000 expelled Germans. You can also contact or donate to the leading organisation for expelled Volga Germans and Germans in Kazakhstan, the Deutsch-Kasachstanische Assoziation der Unternehmer.
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