German Expulsions After WWII - Cold War DOCUMENTARY 

Would you make a video about the Pakistani ISI, the British MI6 and so on???

I disagree with your opinion that expelling hostile and rebellious minorities is immoral. The world is a cruel place where the single most important goal is survival and I don't think there's anything wrong with expelling a people group who is threat to the survival of a nation. German minorities living in Eastern and Central European nations where actively undermining their host nations and Soviet Union and it's satellite states had ample reasons for the expulsion of their German minorities.

@@elhombredeoro955 Did you even watch the video ? first there is the UN convention then forbid all kind of expulstion and ethic clennings as crime against humanity.ALso the most expulstion came form territories that belong to germany before stalin annex them.

It was not collective punishment nor "ethnic cleansing". The British and the Americans agreed to expulsion of ethnic Germans because they willingly gave up their Czechoslovak, Polish or Yugoslavian citizenship by accepting "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer" which was in fact oath of allegiance to Third Reich. They effectively took German citizenship. Many of them joined German armed forces which is another way to lose Czechoslovak, Polish or Yugoslavian citizenship. I know as a fact that in Yugoslavia they were placed in internment camps (just like in Denmark) because they were treated as foreigners (they no longer had Yugoslavian citizenship). Many died. At the time one did not need to be in internment camp in order to die of hunger. Some were brought to justice and executed after a trial because of war crimes they have committed as members of Prince Eugen Volunteer Division. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_SS_Volunteer_Mountain_Division_Prinz_Eugen Even today many countries can revoke ones citizenship under these conditions: Run for public office in a foreign country Enter military service in a foreign country Apply for citizenship in a foreign country Commit an act of treason (join SS).

Sounds exactly like my Omas life story

Wonderful story Guy. And I noticed you said she learned English when she came to Canada. In the USA, the latinos who come from other countries refuse to learn English and then they join gangs like MS-13 or the Latin Kings, etc. and begin to sell drugs for the the cartels and they begin to destroy America like termites destroy a house from within.

D W My Oma as well!

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Well...Europe has been fighting each other for hundreds of years...they started both WORLD WARS (Germany) which in turn caused millions to die n suffer! Ther terrorized All of Europe..so imho..it was like karma and now they were reaping what they sowed! Look at what they did in the Scandinavian countries....purposely Starving the people especially the children! I believe it was the winter of 43 or 44, not sure but I viewed film footage of it and it was horrific! I also saw a film on protestants n catholics hating Jews! When you think of all the damage done thru our all of Europe, it's hard to feel sorry for the Germans! Now look at Europe. It's nothing like it used to be...inept leaders welcoming "refugees" with totally different cultures n religions into Germany, France, England mainly, you will have disastrous results....they already have! Spain is doing a better job...as well as Poland n Hungary! So yes, we have had it good in America but it wasn't free....and we are now seeing the Evil n corruption in our own country! We may have to shed blood to take our country back! We are trying to be peaceful about it..but time will tell!

God Bless, my granddad was drafted in the Prussian Army for WWI. Came to America via Canada to Buffalo NY. My birthplace.

A pity this criminal survived

⁠@@patriciabrenner9216Your ancestors are the only criminals around here. How small brained has someone to be, to think a German soldier equals a criminal? Allied soldiers were criminals as well then.

I live in a town that lost 99% of its prewar populiation. Before WW1 my town belonged to Germany after WW1 Lithuania took it and right before WW2 Germany took it back. Until 1945 town was dominated by germans and areas around town was dominated by lithuaninans. 1944/1945 when soviets were nearing about 99.9% fled and only few ever came back.

@Majestic Satire yep

Yea, i heard that the croatian Ustasha in the partisan uniforms killed or exiled 200 000 Italian civilians in Istria. Correct me if i am wrong.

I always thought that the peninsula looked odd being apart of Croatia. It just looks like a weird appendage someone slapped onto the country and now I know that's kind of what happened

Is it now in Slovenia?

That is a very nice story to hear, putting the bad things behind them and moving forward as fellow human beings.

What are you waiting for?

It's Cheb Nazi shithole.

in lithuanian we call it tilžė, a highly significant place for book smugglers 1864-1904

oblast translates to county I think

Let us say none.

@@nondvcordvco4244 oblast is zone or region

They used to make really good cheese (Tilsit Cheese)there when it was a part of Prussia!! No more, it is now made in Schleswig Holstein and Switzerland!!

Oh German heartbreak... after they murdered and stole all over Europe.

Charles McCarron Yes, 500 000 Finnish refuges did not get much attention among the hoards of refuges throughout Europe during and after WWII! The key battles cost the Sovjets too much to stomach conquering Finland. It could have set them back months and months for the race to catch Berlin first. Fortunately for Finland, they preferred to be first in Berlin. Finnish observers hidden in the Russian rear were able to inform armistice negotiators that Soviet forces were moved from the Finnish front against Germany, which enabled negotiators to negotiate slightly better terms. But the terms were as such burdensome enough! Finland became under Soviet influence but remained independent and escaped occupation! Marshall Mannerheim was never happy being an ally with Nazi Germany. The Ribbentrop pact and Russian demands 1939 started the Winter War. It is questionable if Finland had any option to stay outside of Germany’s Barbarossa endeavor? I don’t think anyone could have been happy with what transpired once the WWII was in progress! I hope that shall be a warning to future leaders and generations never again!!

Charles McCarron Yes, I am aware if Hitler’s visit and that unique recording. Mannerheim recognized well the complicated scenario Finland was in. It was easy for Germany to find sympathizers in Finland 1941 for the Barbarossa endeavor after Finland had been forced to defend itself in the Winter War 1939-40. It would have been better if those sympathizers had tempered their desire for revenge! Mannerheim did know Russia well, being a former general in the Russian imperial army himself. He was also fluent in German and a skillful cautious diplomat. He would have preferred to stay in retirement but was called back to serve the country when the storms of war begun to brew. It is my understanding he would have preferred to keep Finland on the sidelines out of the war. But the complicated scenario with Ribbentrop’s secret schemes and how events unfolded caused matters to run out of Finland’s control. My generation born in the 50’s considered ourselves fortunate! Most of us had a good childhood growing up in peace and relatively good prosperity. Good opportunities in receiving an education and work. There were concerns due to the cold war but it stayed cold fortunately. Things did begin to decline slowly in 90’s and later. Even while some part of the population did very well till about 2010. I am now concerned where we are really heading!? USA was long a leading stabilizing factor. USA has today become a destabilizing factor! And unreliable to be trusted. EU’s problems have become more pronounced!

ctixbwi they were very fortunate to keep their independence unlike the Baltic nations.

@@elbucho8867 Yes, The years after WWII were still precarious. The USSR's focus remained primarily in central Europe. And possibly beyond. But Finland never felt at ease. It seems that neither did anyone else during the cold war years, when the concern of that it could turn hot any moment simply because of some silly miscalculation or inadvertent mishaps somewhere. The consequences were known by all to be terminal for all! Finland did have a bilateral trade with the USSR, which was beneficial for both helping reduce tentions. Much of that trade has unfortunately withered, very likely after Russia developed in to an oligarcy. Russia has severe problems today, which primarily are internal. Russia has much work ahead to overcome their current internal challenges. Venturing on the old path to seek domination of central Europe or all of it will only exhaust Russia and Europe. Peaceful co-existence is essential!

Given how the Finns helped the Nazis, I say well deserved! Let us not forget how many were in the Waffen SS!

Masuren was actually just the southern part of east prussia. You are right about the votes there but Pommern and Danzig were pretty much completely german. That also didn't really matter as much german speaking places became part of poland for strategic reasons anyway. In upper silesia were the held referenda too they chose to split the territory arbitraryly. My family also has a related background.

German colonist such as you ancestors were rightfully expelled from those originally Polish lands.

@@filipnalewaja5609Ridiculous smooth brain, all of Poland was settled by Germanic tribes 2000 years ago up to Crimea (Crimean Goths). Slavs arrived later. Educate yourself before you genocide innocent families

To be frank, some of them were planted there by the Empire, particulary the first generation of settlers living in Posen and West Prussia before 1914, but yeah... it's a very bad choice of words on his part.

Germans lived in Czechia since at least 1200s. BTW, this whole video had a tinge of Marxist propaganda - the 2015 hordes of violent Afghans and North Africans are put in the same bag as 1945 German families.

​@@cernejr What nation was it that launched two of the bloodiest wars in the history of Europe by attacking pretty much every country around them? The Afghans or the North Africans?

Wimbold germany didn’t start ww1

@@goldenfiberwheat238 July 28 [The ethnic German emperor of] Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia July 30 Germany sends Russia an ultimatum August 1 Germany declares war on Russia and mobilizes August 2 Germany invades Luxembourg August 3 Germany declares war on France. August 4 Germany invades Belgium

My family was expelled from Marineweirder, Prussia (now Kwigzyn, Poland) and lost everything due to these expulsions. This was a genocide-lite against the German people, and is never mentioned in schools.

We Germans don't like to talk about it very much. We don't want to give the impression that we're pushing the blame on someone else. Even though the Soviets were not much better in many cases.

@Anonymous Guy No it won't. Because poles can't win a war, not for themselves anyway.

The whole incident should be called Convas of Slavic vengeance 🤣🤣🤣

@Anonymous Guy And the new Russian border will be outside Warsaw.

Ah yes . The horrors of sudetland ...

In so called Sudetenland the good Germans vote 90% of their votes for NSDAP and before their neighbors and coworkers chased them the good Germans chased those neighbors and coworkers and expelled them from their own land of Bohemia. There is nothing like sudetenland and never was, its just nazi term propaganda.

Got what they deserved germans and austrians killed and Fried to destroy Czech republic, so karma.

So much for the socialist brotherhood of all men.

@@Yora21 This one was pretty much justified. Keeping Ukrainians in Poland and Poles in Ukraine could have ended up in another Volhynia. it might have been the best way to stop the tragic circle of revenge. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia

The Soviets deported over 200k citizens from Poland and the Baltic in their invasion of 1939-41.

Who were they?

Sure. That was also bad. Still not the same scale as with the germans. 3,5 mil poles and some million Ukrainians. Pointing out the worst crime of them all is still very valid. Funnyly was Poland very involved in the ethnic cleansing post ww2

True, that's why Baltic countries expel ethnic Russians. If Russia keeps expanding its territory, i feel no pity for those expelled Russians.

Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands" has some good work on this as does Robert Gellately's "Lenin, Hitler and Stalin"

There are some autobiographies I can recall. For example, I know of one autobiography written by an ethnic German, but I need to find the book again to find the title. Also, I think there was a single edition of the book too, so it might be harder to source. But if I find it I will put the title here so you can find it. It's written in German, English, and Gottscheerisch (I believe).

@Русское море you are the living stereotype of the guy who judges a book by its cover Read the fucking book first lol

@Русское море I would be careful. He makes a lot of claims in the book that have been debunked.

@Русское море: James Buck is a very untrustworthy writer, he made up a lot of his stories out of imagination. read "Other Losses" with care and distrust, and check what others say.

Actually in the countries where it happened we talk about it quite a lot. It shaped the lives, landscape and everything here. Greetings from the so-called Sudetenland.

It's still happening in Germany, they are allowing refugees to just flood through Europe from those other parts of the world. It really needs to stop, yet they are too afraid of being labelled Nazi to do so.

Sadly that's what happens when a group loses a brutal war. Here in Serbia there are 300 000 Serbian refuges from 1990's wars from regions where Serbs lived for over 300+ years. Alot were expeled after the war. In Kosovo in just few months after the war when 40 000 NATO troops were present, 700 civilians were killed in their houses that didn't leave. In Kosovo in 2004 German soldiers refused to defend private property, people and churches that were attacked in a riot by teens of thousands of albanians, while French soldiers opened fire on so called protesters..

@@1GTX1 The Yugoslav Wars were fucked up. Bosniaks killed Croats and Serbians. Everyone killed Bosniaks. Croations killed Serbians. Serbians killed Croats and Albanians. Albanians killed Serbians. It was one of the most fucked up conflicts in the last years of the 20th century.

@@1GTX1 Since the Second Word War German troops have lost their fighting ability. Don't expect anything. If they had shot a few people down there, the whole world would have accused them of being the same cruel occupiers of the Balkans as the Wehrmacht had been.

the worst treated were the Volga Germans who got deported to Siberia during WW2 due to fears of them collaborating with the nazi's. At least 1.5 million would be brought to siberia practically enslaved and would cause the region they inhabited for centuries to never return to the numbers it once was. They mostly then were spread around Central Asia and Siberia after WW2 becoming sigificant minorities in those regions though they decreased once Germany reunified with only the one in Kazahstan being sigificant

dont be sure they ever arrived in germany though

All his fault

@KA- BOOM!!! They were citizens of those Eastern European countries, they're descendants of German colonists which were settling in the east in previous centuries.

@KA- BOOM!!! Dutch are closely related to the Germans, so I guess they would try to assimilate them or promote pan-Germanic unity. I'm not sure what was actual Hitler's plan for the Netherlands.

Hitler was insane, yes! Buy the ordeal of civilians being " cleansed", killed or displaced is not only his fault, but also the result of communist tyrants who applied this as a purposeful policy, and the allies are also to blame for not defending eastern Europe, condemnig it to more than 2 generations of tyranny... Shame on the so called "humankind" and human rights and so called democrats....

@@carlosgauerke2466 how were the Allies going to stop Stalin? They would get steamrolled if they tried in 1945 in Europe (plus it was illogical)

@Русское море "The richest republic of the Soviet Union" sounds like the richest hut of the concentration camp.

@Русское море Ты мне напомнил старый анекдот. Приходит Андропов (А) к Брежневу (Б). А: Мы тратим уйму сил борясь с перебежчиками, а в результате имеем рост количества антисоветчиков внутри границ. Давайте откроем на месяц границы, пусть все недовольные уедут. Б: Ты что, хочешь, чтоб в СССР мы остались вдвоём? А: А второй кто?

@Русское море Its not like the Soviets did this thing called Holodomor that killed 6 million Ukrainians lmao

Русское море I’m sorry, what government did the US overthrow, and please tell me you’re not talking about that scumbag Yanukovych. He was overthrown in the Euromaidan protests. That was the people of Ukraine, not America

Русское море Actually, Stalin exploited the famine to explicitly target ethnic minorities, from Kazakhs to Volga Germans and of course Ukrainians. And many nations offered aid but it was rejected and the Soviets continued to export grain during the period despite people desperately needing that grain. It was intentional on the government’s part, it was calculated, and it was cruel

Why? Up to 1916 there had been no such country.

nonsense. Read a book.

@@thkempe Nonsense. Read a history book.

@@thkempe not at all, never...

@@KR-jt4ut reading might be too tough, a yt video, maybe?

No, they lived inside of Germany for generations. Slubice is not any less German than it's neighbour city Frankfurt. The border was drawn for strategic reasons after World War 2 and isn't defined by historical circumstances.

@@benmatlock5746 In the 1800's Germans had been invited to settle on Russian land by Catherine the Great They lived in small communities and some had settled deep inside Russia.

Oh well... Karma is a bitch.

They lived on slavic lands stołem by germans, so at the end they got what they deserved. Germans should be happy thath they were not exterminated after all their crimes.

​@@patriciabrenner9216 why Karma?

when you see of of your fav channel comment on a video and only four people like it

Dutch=deutsch

@Fabian Kirchgessner yet I would say that the Czechs got it harder-they were killed, enslaved and were to be annihilated by Germans-that IS genocide for you and also sudeten Germans did not help any Czechs that have escaped concentration camps or any Czech refugees/people who desperately needed help-even killed them and actively supported Hitler and the genocide of Czechs-didn't even one second considered themselfes guilty or evil by the actions that they made...Czechs on another hand only expelled the sudeten Germans-I would say that they were pretty kind to only expell the sudeten Germans after what they did to Czechs.

Germans and austrians starterd killing Czecha. Jewish neighbours collaborated massively with germans and austrians.

No, that's the anti-GDR myth.

The lesson is. Don't start stupid nationalist wars. It always turns out bad for everyone involved.

Good they were expelled. A pity they survived. Given what Germans had done, this lot paid a bit!

@@patriciabrenner9216 Are you insane? These were civilians living simple lives and they had been living in the region for 400 years...Misguided Hatred is never the answer...

The fate of your grandmother is shared by hundredthousand of east prussians. You can find a lot of informations in the internet. East Prussia was a country once belonging to the prussian kingdom. In the eighteenths century it had a low population due to pandemies and the prussian king Frederic the Great offered protestantic😮 refugees from the catholic austrian empire to give them farmland. So your grandmothers ancestors may have come from regions like Salzburg. My mother is also coming from east prussia. When the red army approached to the west her family were transported 1944 to Saxony and later she came to Hamburg. In 1945 the country senator (gauleiter) Koch, a terrible nazi forbad any escape and a tragedy happened. The russians attacked this country as the first german soil and made a propaganda story of it. The red army following the blood trace of the SS through her homeland (over 600 belorussian villages were massacred) was offered a revenge by Stalin. His official slogan was: „kill the germans in their caves!“ The russian offensive came with bitter fightings and some russian massacres, which was immediately used by the nazi propaganda. The civil population tried to flee in panic and long refugee treks of horsewagons filled the streets to the west. It was Winter and extremely cold and the treks were attacked by bombers and artillery. The only free road was leading over the frozen bay. Many wagons were breaking through the ice. Who made it alive arrived in cities further west like Danzig coming under siege. Passenger ships were the last way out but many were sunk by russian torpedos. The worst case was the sinking of the Wilhelm-Gustloff. Arriving in harbours further west the refugees were exposed to angloamerican airattacks. I It should also be mentioned that the inmates of concentration camps were often massacred by the ss guards. In East prussia 5000 women were shot or were forced to run in the icecold sea. Today the southern half of east prussia is belonging to poland. The northern half came to russia and is an enclave, isolated from the russian mainland by poland and the baltic states. It‘s mainly military area.

@@patriciabrenner9216 Shameful being. You are the very reason such disasters will happen again, no matter who will be the one to commit those deeds.

@@suchendnachwahrheit9143 Hum no. The Germans are the reason this happened. With their lebensraum and heimat and their looking down on others. They were a people of criminals.

The term butcher and butcher’s is subject to the era not the race.

not all areas did Germans support the Nazi's

Wouldn't it be ironic if Germans had to go back to empty lands in Eastern Europe from Canada if things go bad there

it is scary that Ukraine now tries to build a ukrainian-only state

​@@strelkanyou said that but dogwhistling an idea that a certain nationalities have no right to exist, this is the kind of shit Nazis would pull (think like Ukraine as Anschluss and Ukraine as also Poland in WW2)

That says a lot about those world leaders.

Also to compare the refugee crisis of >ethnic germans< into Germany after forced expulsion to a wave of volunteer refugees who leave their own countries to go to germany is pretty disingenuous but i doubt any viewer could take that serious. Sad!

@@barccy nobody denies that borders on the edges can be a bit wacky but there is always a central dominant ethnic group. A pole living on the edges of germany doesnt invalidate the "germanic" peoples. Kind of like orange and yellow, nobody can tell you when specifically yellow turns to orange but i can still tell the concept of orange and yellow apart. Same for nation states, is the ethnic border to the slavic/french/hungarian borders a bit wacky? obv but there is still a clear core territory and a core ethnicity. Germany and the german peoples were always a distinct group that negated itself from the romans, celts, slavs and hungarians.

@@barccy I wouldn't say that's the only reason an empire falls. Infighting is one but there's way more reasons such as economic trouble.

This is tangential to your post, but it seems like you would know. The Saxons are named after a long, curved blade they used called a saex. The Scythians are named after a long, curved blade they used called a scythe. Is there any proven connection between the two groups? This era is not my specialty, but it seems like that's too much for coincidence. Any ideas?

@@kentchamberlain5720 The Scythian and saxons are both indo european and thats more or less where the connection starts and ends basically.

There were roughly 1.5 million “Germans from Russia” in Russia in 1900. Roughly 250K left for Canada, the US and South America between 1900 and 1914. Famine due to farm collectivization in the 1920s killed about a 1/3 of those left. The remaining million were deported to Siberia and Khazatastan in the late 30s and early 40s. Few Volga Germans remained in Russia to be expelled to Germany by the end of WWII.

There is a reason it never gets touched... 😂

Most Germans were brutally evicted and ethnically cleansed from the Sudentenland by the Czech's after the war, but murder was uncommon. Most of it was forcing the Germans to leave their former homes and just walk across the border in very harsh conditions.

No, murder wasn't common. there are cases of marches where the Czechs guarding the Germans were as brutal as the nazis were, like the Brno march, but those were rare. Joint Czech-German historical commission counted some 10 000 people killed, and another 10 000 dead from other reasons, out of some 2 200 000 deported. Part of my family was also deported, by the way.

The Studentenland still suffers today from a lack of population

in the Hultschiner Laendchen, Deutsch Krawarn and the Troppauer area you will still find the native Germans from before 1945 and their descendents still. There are German cultural ties and good connections to the Germans remaining in the Ratibor area of what is now Poland, Silesia. ( Schlesien) But true in most of the romantic and beautiful Sudentenland there are few Germans left. Look at Freiwaldau /Jesenik and also Zuckmantel at all those villas and even factories. No wonder they kicked out the real German owners as they wanted to get those villas for near free, which they did. Gruss. R.

​@@robertomanz6399 They weren't exactly native.

@@tompeled6193 why?

@@botowner8623 They betrayed the Czech nation. They were traitors.

Yes, those who were Nazis had to leave the country, the others could stay. If your grandmother told you otherwise, now you know why...

@@mirekpavlik7334 Funny isn't it that after the war all said they weren't Nazis.

@@botowner8623 because suddeten germans destabilised czechoslovakia before ww2 and were hitlers excuse to invade czechoslovakia.

The Soviets took over parts of Poland and the polish population had to leave. So there were a lot of polish, who needed a new place to live. In the case of Stettin, I know, that some groups of germans first had to stay: Workers, who were responsible for electricity for example to keep the city working.

Stop beliving the kraut lies, there were no "german cities" german were a minority in all of these places.

Some towns unforunatly just never grew back and became a shadow of it's formerself and an eerie reminder

I also live in Canada and am of the same age.

@@ottomeyer6928 Did you come from Hungary?

I bet the Hungarians are also happy that he left their land. Win win situation!

@@gostavoadolfos2023 The economic damage in these countries was enourmous though. Braindrain on an unimaginable scale.

Germany and Poland had a problem to solve, constant deadly violence at their border, France and Britain had nothing to do with this but they used Poland to get their war with Germany. They had promised the Poles to come and help, they didn't, and they declared war on Germany instead... if they had stayed out of it, Germany and Soviet Russia would have destroyed each other, and the world would have been at peace much sooner and millions of lives would have been saved.

Well it *was* a new country(political entity), just an old nation.

Poland has been a country since the 0970's!....and prob much earlier than that.

The slavs arent native to Poland

In Czechoslovakia 90% of Germans voted for NSDAP party, but now they are all innocent and don't know what they have done...

@@mirekpavlik7334 So you are saying that you can injure and kill people because of what they voted? Take their posessions by force? What about their children? Should you maybe kill their parents and deport them like animals? I think it is better to treat people like people and not divide them into groups.

... because Poland and Czechoslovakia were already treating them like shit

@@mirekpavlik7334 So what? LOL

@@paulcooper126 so they're gone LOL

Many people were not happy, but there were plenty of old German people who were saying "Remember when we came here?"

Siege of India? Behenkelavde. India wasn't sieged, it makes no sense how can a whole nation of 3.2 million sq miles be sieged? Use your brain mate. It was attacked

the wolga germans were ask to sett le there by Kathrine the great of russia

Yes.

They were brought to Krasnoyarsk

They were expelled but returned back to Poland/Silesia

the polish republic was a new state

@@heartsofiron4ever yes and this is how alternative version of history is created...

@@heartsofiron4ever since Poland was a "new state" then Russia's claim that Poland took part of Russia's teritory is true and suddenly it turns out that it was Poland who actually invaded Russia and Germany beginning II World War. Give me a break

@@STRACHU100 true, the polish republic just wanted to unite the poles under one banner

@@heartsofiron4ever Its a bit more than that... We wanted to be free again and make our own future. Idea still illusive even today.

There is far more to it tan that though. First, your numkber is to high for that. Second, the ctieria of who was ethnical german was redicioulousoly lose. If you had a german ancestor 4 generations ago, but didnt even speak german to begin with, you were considered a german. And no not all the gertmans expelled after WW2 were these newly moved germans. Most were "germans" who lived their for generations already.

That was at least voluntarily done to the germans, even if based on lies. And many stayed behind, hence why there were still germans to kick out after the war.

"Wend" and "Sorb" in the context of 20th century Germany as synonyms, though, with Wend being considered pejorative nowadays.

I believe I was adding the transfer of Germans, which happened to the planned transfer of Slavs, which apparently didn't happen. It also includes actual Germans who were resettled in conquered areas during the war. There were also 2.7 million Volkesdeustche from Polish areas who participated in the virtual enslavement of the Polish population. As far as their actualethnicity, well, if they said they were German and the Nazis said they were German, who is to argue?

@Silvana Barilla NO, Wenden was used for West Slavs west of Oder in general.

What goes around comes around.

@@patriciabrenner9216 So when it is your turn you will be fine then?

@@Davey-Boyd My turn? The Germans did expel my family from Poland, I mean the ones they didn't murder. They had to flee for their lives. So it was these people's turn!

@@patriciabrenner9216 You are an evil piece of work aren't you

@@patriciabrenner9216 yes, but that was ordered by the NAZI government. Not even a proper GERMAN government, and especially not the GERMAN PEOPLE.

I liked your presentation. It had a lot of pictures in it and you've spoken freely.

german people should had voted out the psycho, but yet they were too intoxicated with his 'lebenstraum' idea

@@oraclerex once Hitler was elected with 33% of the vote, there was no possibility of voting him out again.

Their keeping their lives was already injustice.

@@patriciabrenner9216 stupid american

@@patriciabrenner9216ok Jew

Thanks for the story.

So pro Nazis deny what they did. I am happy they were expelled, not so they survived. Brutal what was the Germans did inj the East.

My uncle franz bauer also came from beli monastir and married my auntie her maiden name was knezevic my volksdecher uncle franz owned a flour mill in beli monastir i still don't know what became of them ,I live in the uk where my father lazar knezevic settled after 1945

@@victorknezevich7281 What became of them? They probably died.

@@victorknezevich7281 my grandmother was theresia bauer... and her father was also franz bauer, but ... i am sure there were many "franz"es ... perhaps we are distant relatives ...?

Not to mention how essential they were in the industrial and cultural life of the region. Before the end of WW1 ethnically the region was around 30% Serb, 30% German, 30% Hungarian and 10% Slovak, Ruthene, Romanian, Croatian and others.

a grear number of Serbs came from regions of Krajina and Lika.

@@kavbojctinko4131 Another case of expulsion.

My family left for Australia in 1861 Pomeranian Prussians (Wendish) from Wolin. We fought as ANZAC lighhorse WW1 and my great uncle was killed as a Bomber Gunner fire bombing Berlin in WW2. It seems no matter where we ""run"" in the world War will always be a constant pushed onto us by governments

Darker part ? Tell me alternative please ? Would you like expect the war to end and people would just go sign and dance together ? Rly after all the shit the nazis did to native population in occupied countries ? Like ok Hans I know you were responsible for the dead of my children but its okay no problem see you tommorow ?

hopefully it will never be repeated again

Exactly. As Czech, I can tell you, that the Czecho-German issues here simply stopped once the Germans were gone. Sad but true. So yeah, good riddance I guess.

@@PotatoSmasher420 Perhaps all countries should get rid of their "significant minorities" to avoid issues.

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki Indeed. Germanic presence in the now west Poland comes long before the west Slavs arrived.

@@PotatoSmasher420 Having talked extensively on this very topic with several Czech historians, its is easy to see that there was extensive collaboration with the Nazis by the German minorities in the region. The Czechs lost their freedom partially do to their German minority, mob justice and vengeance after was almost a natural consequences of the actions done by the Germans done during the war.

@Silvana Barilla Crap. Germans weren't ready to participate, there was huge movement for joining Germany or Austria that was inspired by the WIlson's ideas. They really thought that the victorius powers would gave MORE territories to the defeated Germany... Anyway, as the German-speaking parts of Bohemia and Moravia contained two thirds of the country's coal and large part of the industry, they were considered necessary for the survival of the country (which was true - after the Sudeten crisis, the republic was economically neutered) and were occupied during the winter of 1918. Most calls for independence died out in 1919, as the Germans saw that the living in Germany was far worse, and THERE WAS MINORITY RIGHTS PROTECTION in the Czechoslovakia. In fact, famous German politician and nazi collaborateur boasted that during his whole life and political carreer (he was member of Parliament) in Czechoslovakia, he never learned Czech. There were even German political parties in the government. What killed the relationship between the nations was the Great economical crisis, which hit German speaking areas with their light export-oriented industry extra hard, and Hitler's promises. Part of my family is Czech German, by the way.