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When hearing the word "deportation", most people nod their heads: Of course, we've heard of it: Stalin, the Crimean Tatars, the peoples of the Caucasus, the Volga Germans, the Koreans of the Far East... My story will be about the deportation of Germans from Eastern European countries after the end of World War II. Although it was the most massive deportation of the 20th century, for some completely incomprehensible reason it is not customary to talk about it in Europe. The map of Europe has been cut and redrawn many times. When drawing new border lines, the last thing politicians thought about was the people who lived on these lands. After World War I, the victorious countries took away significant territories from defeated Germany and Austria-Hungary, naturally, along with the population. 2 million Germans ended up in Poland, 3 million in Czechoslovakia. There were also Denmark and France. In total, more than 7 million of Germany's former citizens ended up outside of Germany. Many European politicians (British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, US President Thomas Woodrow Wilson) warned that such a redistribution of the world carried the threat of a new war. They were more than right. The oppression of Germans (real and imaginary) in Czechoslovakia and Poland became an excellent pretext for unleashing the Second World War. By 1940, the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, populated predominantly by Germans, and the Polish part of West Prussia with its center in Danzig became part of Germany. Support me on Boosty: https://boosty.to/ivanzaitsevskii My VK: https://vk.com/publiczaitsevskogo My Telegram: https://t.me/IvanZaitsevskii #Deportation #IvanZaitsevsky #History #Germany #GreatPatrioticWar #SecondWorldWar #ThirdReich