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The uprooting and resettlement of East Germans was designed to avenge and exorcise forever Fascist ambitions and to solve once and for all the problem of German minorities in East Europe. Towards this end the Soviet Union and the countries of East Europe acted jointly to eliminate the German-speaking population from their national territories.
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© 1970 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Schoenberg, H.W. (1970). Background, Flight and Expulsions of East Germans and Ethnic Germans. In: Schoenberg, H.W. (eds) Germans from the East. Studies in Social Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3245-2_2
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