Mein Großvater wurde in Königsberg geboren und flüchtete mit einigen verwandten Familien in Etappen bis in die Pfalz. Manche blieben. Viel erzählte er nicht.. aber das, was er erzählte, war schlimm. Was die Frauen erlebt haben müssen, kann man sich nicht ausmalen. Danke für diesen Beitrag.
My family on my father's side left that area more than 100 years ago. They moved to Rostock and eventually Hamburg. I have friends who went to visit their ancestor's birth place. I never did. This document is very interesting. Thank you for sharing. Greetings from Canada.
Man hätte es auch etwas positiver berichten können und nicht so düster! Aus Deutschland wird durch die illegale Einwanderung; ein Alemanistan…. und viele Deutsche verlassen das Land …
Återställadet av Polen efter att landet delats av Preussen, Ryssland och Österrike vR väldigt viktigt och Polacker lever fortfarande under ryskt förtryck.
I wish the US spent more time getting these displaced European people to the USA after the war, maybe we wouldn’t have the issues we have today with things. Now we spend all our Money on people who only are a drain on our economy and welfare system. The west is lost.
There's only so much that the USA can do, and could do after the war. It a perfect world soviet communism would not have taken over half of Europe, but we don't live in a perfect world. It is up to you europeans to resolve your own issues.
So traurig . Bin Halbkroatin und habe 2004 meinem Mann geheiratet . Er ist Pole. Meine Oma ist von Russen vergewaltigt worden. Ihr Mann ist mit 42 im Jahre 1939 gefallen. Meine Oma floh mit drei kleinen Kindern .
For what? It doesn't matter anymore, what was done has been done. There's is no point in starting things again, it will only create more pain. All that is left now is for it to be acknowledged and people to make the greatest effort to not let it happen again!
@@zs5002 . Yes I agree but so has been every part of the world or another. Borders change over the transcourse of time, trying to bring them back to their original historical demarcations, just because is not only illogical but also a provocation that could lead to unnecessary animosity. Basically, do you really want to start a War over a piece of land that no longer matters or is necessary? Think of the human cost that a conflict would create. Just look at what happened to Argentina over some islands in the south Atlantic Ocean. A territory that they could neither manage nor is essential to their economy. All the human loss over prideful resentment.
What kind of nonsense is that? What about all the jewish people who only speak German or german Yiddish ? Specially when Germany today is the best ally of Israel....
The Polish government in London never agreed to the border change. In response, allays of Poland devolved that government by recognizing the communist government imposed on Poland by Russia. Many Poles transferred from territories annexed by Russia never unpacked their suitcases, hoping for the return to their houses in the east.
The hate was created by Austrtaians and Prussians who stole Silesia and other western Polish provinces in the late 18th century. The stupid German policy of Kaiser Wilhelm II enforced that hate and the Nazis made it even stronger. 1918, 1945 are the results of German imperialism and germanization of Slavonic peoples. History stroke back completely in 1945. It´s to be blamed on Germany itself !!!
"After WW II, the German region of Pomerania became Polish. The formerly German area was then repopulated by Poles, many of whom had been expelled from eastern Polish areas taken by the Soviet Union. " - only 10% are from the former eastern areas. and you omit that Germans were mostly expelled.
Meine Grossmutter izt mit 3 Kindern und meinem Grossvater aus Ostpreussen, Koslau in Mauren, gefluechtet. Smein Grossvater wurde auf der Flucht erschossen. Sie sind ueber das Danziger Watt mit Pferdewagen gefluechtet. In Ostpreussen hatten sie ein grosses Gut mit Trakenerzucht. Meine Grossmutter hat uns Kindern viel von der alten Heimat erzaehlt. Aber auch nach ueber 20 Jahren in Bayern ist sie nie ueber den Verlust der Heimat gekommen.❤
The Erzählungen über die Russen sind jedes mal die Gleichen... Alle waren froh, wenn es US Soldaten (oder einfach nur nicht Russen) waren, und in Angst, wenn es Russen waren.
this is such a difficult watch. people forget the price paid on all sides of the war, not jus the combatants either. these women and their families were treated like scum, like dogs, by an appalling enemy with no regard for human life. what a horrible experience they all mutually shared, in their own unique, but similar ways. god bless them all, and god rest their souls.
The only way you can answer this is … don’t start Wars then. You would still be a flourishing, wealthy Country and still have all your lands in the East. Germany started the worst War in the history of the world, lost millions of their young men and let the Russians in. Old women talking here and making the best of things - where are the old men ? I lived in Germany twice in the sixties and NEVER once saw an old man.
well i guess i can say the same for small town NC america. Now i have a Columbian neighbor, one from China, one from Thailand, one from Vietnam, many others from NY and NJ. Only 50 years ago we were all Southerners. House prices so high both my sons moved far way. ,
By the end, it was clear that they had as much in common, with their Polish neighbours, as with their German family, elsewhere. It shows that what makes us similar is more than what makes us different. Germans and Poles claim Copernicus as theirs. He was instead, a Renaissance man, of learning, tied more to his land, rather than any State.
