Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "" video.
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I know a few eastern Germans and part German eastern Europeans, the part Germans had a very hard time but survived, usually they were dumped in rural Russia (which can get very rural, especially out east) and the locals helped them, for the eastern Germans they were sent to camps, many did not survive, the women were treated how we know, usually repeatedly for years, most of the children and elderly died, whole families were sent and the survivors were dumped back in eastern Germany much later, in one case all the way in 1964, so almost 20 years. In that case it was the first time they had been to Germany in almost a millennia (they were Transylvanian Germans), they had trouble with language, let alone culture and felt very alienated, they left once the the cold war ended (interestingly many of those I know of are now Canadians, probably happenstance).
It's a point of political dispute now, but the numbers were undoubtedly vast, huge amounts of Germans lived outside Germany, in the eastern regions of Germany or in Russia and they were all decimated. Of course the story of many Russians and most Cossacks and other minority groups is similar, sometimes worse as it happened to multiple generations over and over.
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