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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From Poland, to Czechoslovakia, to Occupied Germany: My Flight from the Red Army to the West
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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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IN MEMORIAM: YOUR EXPELLEE RELATIVES & SURVIVORS
If you would like to submit a dedication to an individual or relatives related to the expulsions (along with a photograph), please inform us of your request in an email. Please include any of the following: a personal message, dates or lifespan, nationality, his/her ultimate fate, etc.
Josef Benesch (1920-1999): Born in Klatovy, Czechoslovakia, he came to the Unites States after serving in the Czechoslovakian resistance during WWII. He spent two years as a political prisoner at the infamous Bory prison in Plzen until his escape in 1950.
John Knodel, an ethnic Danube Swabian from Harta, Hungary, was imprisoned as a forced laborer in a Ukrainian coal mine for 33 months after World War II by the Soviet Union. Read his day-to-day diary in our article here.
