During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, both German citizens and ethnic Germans from outside the German state fled and were ethnically cleansed through expulsion from various
German expellees, 1946
German refugees moving westwards in 1945
Karl Hermann Frank, Secretary of State and Higher SS and Police Leader in Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (right) was born in Carlsbad, Austria-Hungary (present-day Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic).
Adolf Hitler being welcomed by a crowd in Sudetenland, where the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party gained 88% of ethnic-German votes in May 1938
Kaliningrad Oblast
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Kaliningrad Oblast is the westernmost federal subject of Russia. It is a semi-exclave on the Baltic Sea within the historical Baltic region of Prussia, bordered by Poland to the south, Lithuania to th
Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)
…Statistical Office of Germany estimated that in mid-1945, 250,000 Germans remained in the northern part of the former East Prussia, which became the Kaliningrad Oblast. They also estimated that more than 100,000 people surviving the Soviet occupation were evacuated to Germany beginning in 1947. German civilians were…
Medieval castle ruins in Ushakovo
Memorial Museum of Kristijonas Donelaitis in Chistye Prudy
Resort town of Cranz (Zelenogradsk today) as it looked circa 1900. It was a destination for German artists and intelligentsia
World War I destruction in Stallupönen, modern Nesterov