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Postwar forced resettlement of Germans echoes through the decades

  • Written by Anil Menon, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Michigan
A trainload of expelled ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia arrives in Bavaria, Germany, after World War II.dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images

Seventy-five years ago, Allied Forces declared victory in Europe on May 8, 1945. Millions across the continent had been persecuted, displaced and killed because of their national, ethnic or religious...

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