Anonymous
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9/3/2025, 7:38:49 PM
No.514727311
>>514728554
>>514730239
>>514730627
>>514730906
9/3/2025, 7:38:49 PM
No.514727311
>>514728554
>>514730239
>>514730627
>>514730906
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>reminder that cities like Sighișoara, Tartu, Bolzano, Elbląg, Sibiu, Klaipėda, Toruń, Brașov, Strasbourg, Szczecin, Tallinn, Danzig (Gdańsk), Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Riga, and Breslau (Wrocław) were originally founded anb built up under German law and settlement
>reminder that millions of ethnic Germans lived in these places for centuries
>reminder that after WWII, around 12 to 14 million Germans were expelled from Eastern and Central Europe
>reminder that historians describe this as the largest forced migration in European history
>reminder that somewhere between 500000 and 2 million people died during the expulsions from hunger, disease, or violence
>reminder that almost all homes, farms, and businesses were violently seized without compensation
>reminder that in Poland, German houses were given to Polish settlers from the east
>reminder that in Czechoslovakia, the Beneš decrees legalized violent confiscation of all German property
>reminder that in Yugoslavia and Romania, Danube Swabians lost everything, often ending up in camps
>reminder that in Kaliningrad, Russians moved into German homes and the old Königsberg was wiped from the map
>reminder that descendants of the expelled never got their homes or businesses back
>reminder that what was taken was not only land and stone, but the very marrow of a people
>reminder that the cities they built, from Königsberg to Kronstadt, from Danzig to Dorpat now lie silent of their tongue
reminder that the homes and hearths of centuries were seized, their owners cast into exile without return
reminder that in the ashes of war the German spirit was shattered, its dominion broken, its legacy left to haunt foreign soil like a restless shade
>reminder that millions of ethnic Germans lived in these places for centuries
>reminder that after WWII, around 12 to 14 million Germans were expelled from Eastern and Central Europe
>reminder that historians describe this as the largest forced migration in European history
>reminder that somewhere between 500000 and 2 million people died during the expulsions from hunger, disease, or violence
>reminder that almost all homes, farms, and businesses were violently seized without compensation
>reminder that in Poland, German houses were given to Polish settlers from the east
>reminder that in Czechoslovakia, the Beneš decrees legalized violent confiscation of all German property
>reminder that in Yugoslavia and Romania, Danube Swabians lost everything, often ending up in camps
>reminder that in Kaliningrad, Russians moved into German homes and the old Königsberg was wiped from the map
>reminder that descendants of the expelled never got their homes or businesses back
>reminder that what was taken was not only land and stone, but the very marrow of a people
>reminder that the cities they built, from Königsberg to Kronstadt, from Danzig to Dorpat now lie silent of their tongue
reminder that the homes and hearths of centuries were seized, their owners cast into exile without return
reminder that in the ashes of war the German spirit was shattered, its dominion broken, its legacy left to haunt foreign soil like a restless shade
