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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