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During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and Volksdeutsche fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and from the former German provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, East Prussia, and the eastern parts of Brandenburg and Pomerania (Hinterpommern), which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union.
Pages in category "German exiles" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Frederick V of the Palatinate;
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The German-language writer Franz Kafka described the exile of Karl Rossmann in the posthumously published novel Amerika. [ 21 ] During the period of National Socialism in the first few years after 1933, many Jews, as well as a significant number of German artists and intellectuals fled into exile; for instance, the authors Klaus Mann and Anna ...
The German Expellees or Heimatvertriebene (German: [ˈhaɪmaːt.fɐˌtʁiːbənə] ⓘ, "homeland expellees") are 12–16 million German citizens (regardless of ethnicity) and ethnic Germans (regardless of citizenship) who fled or were expelled after World War II from parts of Germany annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union and from other ...
In addition, the German minority engaged in such activities as identifying Poles for execution and illegally detaining them. [29] To Poles, moving Germans out of Poland was seen as an attempt to avoid such events in the future and, as a result, the Polish government in exile proposed a population transfer of Germans as early as 1941. [29]
German people who were temporarily abroad, only during the Nazi years, are in Category:Exiles from Nazi Germany. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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