7 / 2, " the spouse and the descendants " of an expellee are to be treated as if they were expellees themselves, regardless whether they have been personally displaced.

The situation is further complicated by the fact that parts of the current Polish population in historical eastern Germany are themselves expellees ( or descendants of expellees ) who were expelled from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union and were forced to leave their homes and property behind as well.

The fact that some Germans settled in Poland after 1939 and the treatment under German law of these ex-colonists as expellees are issues which add to the controversy.

Most of the Pomeranian dialects have largely died out in the following decades as the expellees were assimilated into their new homes, although Pomeranian dialects are still spoken in Vorpommern ( Western or Hither Pomerania ), part of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

However, German expellees and refugees are now free to visit their former homes without difficulty.

The Federation of Expellees ( is the German non-governmental head organization of various organized groups of German refugees and expellees.

The town was resettled by Poles, many of whom were expellees from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union.

The German population was forcibly expelled and replaced by Poles, many of them expellees themselves from areas of eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union.

Its German population was expelled and the town was populated with Poles, many themselves expellees from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union.

Its German population was expelled and the town was populated with Poles, many themselves expellees from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union.

Its German population was expelled and the town was populated with Poles, many themselves expellees from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union.

Its former German population was expelled and replaced with Poles, many themselves expellees from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union, which encouraged and partly carried out the post-war expulsions of Germans from the areas under its rule, stopped delivering agricultural products from its zone in Germany to the more industrial western zones, thereby failing to fulfill its obligations under the Potsdam Agreements to provide supplies for the expellees, whose possessions had been confiscated.

Consequently, the American military administrator, Lucius D. Clay, stopped the transfer of supplies and dismantled factories from the Ruhr area to the Soviet sector on 3 May 1946 while the expellees from the areas under Soviet rule were deported to the West until the end of 1948.

The city was resettled by Poles, many of them, expellees from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union.

The German population of the areas east of the line was expelled, and the area was resettled primarily with Poles ( some themselves expellees from former eastern Poland ) and some Ukrainians ( resettled under Operation Vistula ) and Jews.

As a result of the Potsdam Conference, the town was transferred from Germany to Poland in 1945 and had its German inhabitants expelled and replaced with Poles, many themselves expellees from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union.

One reviewer argues that de Zayas over-emphasizes the role of the Bund der Vertriebenen ( non-governmental association representing the expellees ) and its property and territorial claims.

After joining with other expellees to form the Democratic Representative Caucus, Pankiw sat with other DRC members in the Progressive Conservative-DRC coalition.

VdU saw itself as representing the interests of former Nazi Party members, expellees from Central and Eastern Europe, returning war prisoners and other discontent portions of the Austrian population.

In November 1946 Pius XII invited Kaller to Rome, both were personally acquainted since their common time in Berlin ( Pius as Nuncio to Germany and Kaller as priest ), and the latter reported the pope on the destitute situation of the expellees from eastern Europe.

Some German expellees desire to resettle in their territories of birth, youth and early life, but legal procedures often make remigration difficult, even after Poland and the Czech Republic joined the European Union.

The Ashkenazi expellees and their High German Yiddish language left a significant imprint on Eastern Central Europe, in towns like Lviv ( Lemberg ), Lublin, Minsk and Chernivtsi ( Czernowitz ), but also in the Bohemian capital Prague as well as in numerous shtetls.

After World War II, with the factory closed, ethnic German expellees from their settlements in Eastern Europe settled in the abandoned grounds, and toxic material was removed from the area.

While France refrained from expelling the Saar population ( ethnic cleansing ), as France generally had not agreed to the expulsions approved by the Potsdam agreement by the allies ( a decision made without input from France ), it still strictly refused to absorb war refugees who were denied return to their homes in the eastern annexed territories or post-war expellees from there, in the French Saar protectorate or the French zone.

Given their Christian cultural background and high level of European-style education, the new emigrants were less likely to follow the example of the 1492 expellees by settling in the Ottoman Empire, where a complete culture change would be required.

Between 1953 and 1991 the West German government passed several laws dealing with German expellees.

Under previous governments, especially those led by the CDU, the West German government had shown more rhetorical support for German refugees and expellees.

Although the Social Democrats showed strong support for the expellees especially under Kurt Schumacher and Erich Ollenhauer, social democrats in more recent decades have traditionally been less supportive — and it was under Willy Brandt that West Germany recognized the Oder-Neisse line as factual as part of his Ostpolitik.

A European organisation for expellees has been formed-EUFV.

These German expellees were transported to the present day Germany ( including the former East Germany ), and they were replaced with Poles, many from former Polish provinces taken over by the USSR in the east.

This increase was primarily due to the high number of refugees and expellees.

It contains additional information from interviews with the children of the displaced, German expellees who migrated to the United States and Canada, new photos and new statistical tables.

These expellees and refugees ( known as Heimatvertriebene ) were given refugee status and documents and resettled by Germany.

He granted Gumbinnen town privileges in 1724 and from 1732 resettled the area with Protestant expellees from the Archbishopric of Salzburg, who had been exiled by Prince-Archbishop Count Leopold Anton von Firmian.

Polish settlers, partially expellees from the east of former Poland, arrived in the region to replace the German population that had fled or were forcibly expelled.

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