Expulsion of Germans after World War II - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Expulsion Of Germans After World War Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Expulsion Of Germans After World War Ii - Historical Development
Expulsion of Germans after World War II - Germany. After World War II many expellees (German: Heimatvertriebene) from the land east of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Volga German: Encyclopedia Ii - Volga German - The Twentieth Century
After the Russian Revolution, the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Autonome Sozialistische Sowjet-Republik der Wolga-De...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transylvanian Saxons: Encyclopedia Ii - Transylvanian Saxons - Medieval Settlements
The initial phase of German settlement began in the mid-12th century with colonists travelling to what would become the Altland or Herman...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Evacuation Of East Prussia: Encyclopedia Ii - Evacuation Of East Prussia - German Propaganda
The Soviet army initiated an offensive into East Prussia on October 1944, but after two weeks it was temporarily driven back. After that,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sudetenland: Encyclopedia Ii - Sudetenland - History Of Sudetenland
Sudetenland - Early Origins and part of Austria. Sudetenland is a 20th century name and not a historical region and it is thus difficul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organised Persecution Of Ethnic Germans: Encyclopedia Ii - Organised Persecution Of Ethnic Germans - Specific Locales
Organised persecution of ethnic Germans - Australia. Persecution of ethnic Germans was much the same in Australia as it was in the Unit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beneš Decrees: Encyclopedia Ii - Beneš Decrees - Post-war Settlement In Europe And The Beneš Decrees
The Beneš decrees are most often associated with transfer (expulsion or resettlement) in 1945-47 of about three million former Czechoslo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Danube Swabians: Encyclopedia Ii - Danube Swabians - History
Danube Swabians - Origins. Beginning in the 12th century, German merchants and miners began to settle in the Kingdom of Hungary at the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beneš Decrees: Encyclopedia Ii - Beneš Decrees - Post-war Settlement In Europe And The Beneš Decrees
The Beneš decrees are most often associated with transfer (expulsion or resettlement) in 1945-47 of about three million former Czechoslo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Danube Swabians: Encyclopedia Ii - Danube Swabians - Culture
The Danube Swabian culture is a melting pot of southern German regional customs, with a large degree of Balkan, mostly Hungarian, influen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Volga German: Encyclopedia Ii - Volga German - Volga Germans In North America
Volga Germans emigrated to the United States and Canada and settled mainly in the Great Plains; Alberta, eastern Colorado, Kansas, Manito...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Volga German: Encyclopedia Ii - Volga German - The Present Day
The Volga Germans never returned to the Volga region. After the war, many settled in the Ural Mountains, Siberia, Kazakhstan (2% of today...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Evacuation Of East Prussia: Encyclopedia Ii - Evacuation Of East Prussia - Soviet Propaganda And Retribution
Since the times of Imperial Russia, the word "Prussia" was associated with militarism. In the Soviet Union "Prussian militarism and react...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Central Europe: Encyclopedia - Central Europe
Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. The term has come back ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Czech Silesia: Encyclopedia - Czech Silesia
Czech Silesia, one of the three Czech lands, is the Czech part of Silesia. It is located in the north-east of the Czech Republic. In the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organised Persecution Of Ethnic Germans: Encyclopedia Ii - Organised Persecution Of Ethnic Germans - Background
Historically, the persecution of German-speaking communities in Central and Eastern Europe was due to many causes. In most cases as in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beneš Decrees: Encyclopedia Ii - Beneš Decrees - Impact On Today's Political Relations
Up to some point the decrees affect the political relations between the Czech Republic and its neighbours, Austria and Germany (and on ev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Volga German: Encyclopedia Ii - Volga German - Volga Germans In North America
Volga Germans emigrated to the United States and Canada and settled mainly in the Great Plains; Alberta, eastern Colorado, Kansas, Manito...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transylvanian Saxons: Encyclopedia Ii - Transylvanian Saxons - Medieval Organization
Transylvanian Saxons - Legal organization. Although the knights had left Transylvania, the Saxon colonists remained, however, and the k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transylvanian Saxons: Encyclopedia Ii - Transylvanian Saxons - Privileged Class
Along with the (largely Hungarian) Transylvanian nobility and the Szeklers, the Transylvanian Saxons were members of the Unio Trium Natio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transylvanian Saxons: Encyclopedia Ii - Transylvanian Saxons - World War Ii And Afterwards
During World War II, many disaffected Transylvanian Saxons sided with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union. When Romania signed a peace ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transylvanian Saxons: Encyclopedia Ii - Transylvanian Saxons - Loss Of Elite Standing
Emperor Joseph II attempted to revoke the Unio Trium Nationum in the late 18th century. His actions were aimed at the political inequalit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pursuit Of Nazi Collaborators: Encyclopedia Ii - Pursuit Of Nazi Collaborators - Background
The main motives for the apprehension of suspected collaborators were: Trial and, if guilty, punishment of traitors, for example membe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Exodus From Eastern Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - German Exodus From Eastern Europe - Nazi-soviet Population Transfers
Main article: Nazi-Soviet population transfers. Following the Nazi-Soviet pact, Soviet leader Josef Stalin permitted the departure of Ger...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Germany Since 1945: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Germany Since 1945 - The Division Of Germany
At the Potsdam Conference in August 1945, after Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945, the Allies divided Germany into four mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Central Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Central Europe - Between The Alps And The Baltics
According to most English-language encyclopedias, such as the Encyclopædia Britannica, the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica and the Columbi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moravia: Encyclopedia Ii - Moravia - Geography
Moravia occupies most of the eastern third of the Czech Republic including the South Moravian Region and the Zlín Region, as well as par...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Czech Silesia: Encyclopedia Ii - Czech Silesia - History
Modern-day Czech Silesia is mainly that small part of Silesia that remained within Austria at the end of the First Silesian War (see War ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Democide: Encyclopedia Ii - Democide - Significant 20th Century Democides
The following based on Matthew White's web site [3] lists the significant democides where the death rate can be estimated to exceed 1,000...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moravia: Encyclopedia Ii - Moravia - People
The Moravians today are a Slavic ethnic group who speak various dialects of Czech. Some Moravians regard themselves as an ethnically dist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Exodus From Eastern Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - German Exodus From Eastern Europe - Emigration Of Germans From Eastern Europe
Main article: Emigration of Germans from Eastern Europe. Between 1950 and 1990, 1.4 million people emigrated from Poland to Germany claim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Exodus From Eastern Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - German Exodus From Eastern Europe - Expulsion
Main article: Expulsion of Germans after World War II. The remaining ethnic German residents, some of whom had become German citizens dur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Exodus From Eastern Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - German Exodus From Eastern Europe - Evacuation
Main article: World War II evacuation and expulsion. Late towards the end of the war German authorities ordered the evacuation of areas c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pursuit Of Nazi Collaborators: Encyclopedia Ii - Pursuit Of Nazi Collaborators - Means Of Pursuit
This pursuit takes many forms, both individual and organised. Several organizations hunt for and pursue individuals they believe complici...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Democide: Encyclopedia Ii - Democide - Accusations Of Democide
For books, articles, data, and analyses regarding democide, see Rummel's website. [2] Accusations of mass killings by a government are re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Democide: Encyclopedia Ii - Democide - Critics Of Rummel's Calculations
However, Rummel himself uses a broader sense of government responsibility, including all kinds of "reason-result" relationships between a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Czech Silesia: Encyclopedia Ii - Czech Silesia - Geography
The area lies to the east and west of the city of Ostrava and comprises much of the modern Moravian-Silesian Region and, in its far west,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Central Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Central Europe - Central Europe Behind The Iron Curtain
Following World War II, large parts of Europe that were culturally and historically Western became part of the Eastern bloc, which effect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moravia: Encyclopedia Ii - Moravia - People
The Moravians today are a Slavic ethnic group who speak various dialects of Czech. Some Moravians regard themselves as an ethnically dist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Germany Since 1945: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Germany Since 1945 - West Germany
The Western Allies turned over increasing authority to German officials and moved to establish a nucleus for a future German government b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moravia: Encyclopedia Ii - Moravia - History
Around 60 BC the Celtic Boii people withdrew from the region and were succeeded in turn by the Germanic Quadi and in the 6th century the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Germany Since 1945: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Germany Since 1945 - East Germany
Main article: History of East Germany In the Soviet occupation zone, the Social Democratic Party was forced to merge with the Communist P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Germany Since 1945: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Germany Since 1945 - The Unification Of East And West Germany
Main article: German reunification History of Germany since 1945 - Background. International plans for the unification of Germany were ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Germany Since 1945: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Germany Since 1945 - East-west Relations
Under Chancellor Adenauer West Germany declared its right to speak for the entire German nation. The Hallstein Doctrine restricted diplom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Expulsion Of Germans After World War Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Expulsion Of Germans After World War Ii - Summary Of German Expellee Population
Notes: Germany-The pre-war eastern German provinces that became Polish in 1945. Eastern Europe- Includes ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Expulsion Of Germans After World War Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Expulsion Of Germans After World War Ii - The Results
Up to 12.4 million Germans of the postwar population were forced to leave. The estimates of people that lost their lives differ. Accordin...   » Read the article