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Deported Germans

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Yvonne

Yvonne Report 17 Nov 2024 19:19

Does anyone know if there are any records or info available on Germans deported to Russia during WW2.

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 17 Nov 2024 20:24

Have you tried Google?

Any records would be on German or Russian.

Yvonne

Yvonne Report 17 Nov 2024 22:39

Yes I did have a look on Google but all I could find were articles about the deportations. I was looking more for actual records if there are any.

Jink20

Jink20 Report 17 Nov 2024 23:34

Wikipedia
Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union
In 2001, the Russian scholar Pavel Polian published an account of the deportations during the Soviet era, "Against Their Will". Polian's study detailed the Soviet statistics on the employment of German civilian labor during the Stalin era.[1]

Pavel Polian (2003). Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR. Central European University Press and Memorial.
***** ISBN 963-9241-68-7 ******

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_of_Germans_in_the_Soviet_Union
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Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_(1944%E2%80%931950)

See References at bottom of page for relevant titles which may interest you.
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Yvonne

Yvonne Report 17 Nov 2024 23:48

Thanks so much for that. I'll definitely check it out.

Jink20

Jink20 Report 18 Nov 2024 00:08

The foundation ZENTRUM GEGEN VERTREIBUNGEN (Centre against Expulsions)

https://web.archive.org/web/20110514100615/http://www.z-g-v.de/english/aktuelles/?id=56

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The West German Search Service working with the German Red Cross attempted to trace German civilians deported to the USSR and estimate the approximate number who died. The results of these West German efforts to trace the fate of those deported was detailed in the study Gesucht wird (lit.?'Looking for') by Kurt Böhme, published in 1965.
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The Federation of Expellees (German: Bund der Vertriebenen; BdV) is a non-profit organization formed in West Germany on 27 October 1957 to represent the interests of German nationals of all ethnicities and foreign ethnic Germans and their families (usually naturalised as German nationals after 1949) who either fled their homes in parts of Central and Eastern Europe, or were forcibly expelled following World War II.

BdV - Bund der Vertriebenen
Godesberger Allee 72 - 74
53175 Bonn

Tel: 0228 81007 0
E-Mail: info(at)bdvbund.de