[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] expulsion of Germans from the East at the end of the Second World War

[Helen Gillespie]

To all,

Some members of the listserv might have families that experienced the expulsion from Eastern Europe during the Second World War. Sometimes these folks did not talk about their experiences. 


The German magazine Der Spiegel regularly puts special issues covering specific topics.  In 2002, they covered the flight and expulsion of Germans from the East. Unfortunately it is in German.  The PDF versions (on the left side of the page) do include some photos.  Some are pretty grim.Although the articles don't cover Wolhynians specifically, their experiences would be about the same.


 
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/spiegelspecial/index-2002-2.html

My own family experienced some of this. 

 
Helen

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