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The following list of Eastern Bloc defectors contains notable defectors from East Germany, the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Albania before those countries' conversions from communist states in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
East German defectors (1 C, 36 P) G. German defectors to the Soviet Union (9 P) W. West German defectors to East Germany (17 P) Pages in category "German defectors"
East Germany [33] Kim Sung-bai: Republic of Korea Air Force: South Korea: 1953: North Korea [36] S. Lewes: British Army: United Kingdom: 1953: East Germany [33] Norman M. Lowell: United States Army: United States: 1953: East Germany [37] R. W. Luwman: Royal Netherlands Army: Netherlands: 1953: East Germany [38] Clifford F. Murphy: United States ...
Pages in category "East German defectors" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
West German defectors to East Germany (17 P) Pages in category "Defectors to East Germany" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Accordingly, before 1961, most of that east–west flow took place between East and West Germany, with over 3.5 million East Germans emigrating to West Germany before 1961, [56] [57] which comprised most of the total net emigration of 4.0 million emigrants from all of Central and Eastern Europe between 1950 and 1959. [58]
Russian émigrés and defectors from the Soviet Union formed the Russian Liberation Army or fought as Hilfswillige within German units of the Wehrmacht primarily on the Eastern Front. [7] Non-Russians from the Soviet Union formed the Ostlegionen (literally "Eastern Legions"). The East Legions comprized a total of 175,000 personnel. [8]
Pages in category "West German defectors to East Germany" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.