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	Federation of Expellees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The federation's first president was Hans Krüger, a former Nazi official accused of war crimes, while the current president is CDU politician Erika Steinbach.
		Support for the aims of the Federation of Expellees within the German electorate remains low, and when in charge of government, both CDU and SPD have tended to favor improved relations with Central and Eastern Europe, even when this conflicts with the interests of the displaced.
		The situation is further complicated by the fact that the majority of the current Polish population in historical eastern Germany are expellees (or descendants of expellees) themselves': they were moved from territories annexed by the USSR and were forced to leave their homes and property behind.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federation_of_Expellees (1479 words)

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	www.fact-library.com /federation.html (280 words)

	ipedia.com: Federation of Expellees Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Bund der Vertriebenen (BdV) (German for "Federation of Expellees") is a non-profit organization formed to represent the interests of Germans displaced from their homes in Eastern Germany and other parts of Eastern Europe by the Expulsion of Germans after World War II.
		The situation is further complicated by the fact that the majority of the current Polish population in the former Eastern Germany are expellees (or descendants of expellees) themselves - they were moved from territories annexed by USSR and left their homes and property behind too.
		The expellees are organized in 21 territorial associations (Landsmannschaften) according to the areas of origin of its members, 16 state organizations (Landesverbände) accoring to their current residence, and 5 associate member organizations.
	www.ipedia.com /federation_of_expellees.html (934 words)

	Germany's Expellees and Border Changes - An Endless Dilemma? Look into one of the least-known chapters of World War II ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		While Silesian expellee and refugee groups in Germany merely protested the Bonn government's formal recognition of the Oder-Neisse line as the final border between Germany and Poland after German reunification in October 1990, the ethnic Germans in Silesia were shocked.
		Still, having lost most of their worldly possessions, the expellees and refugees formed a nucleus of malcontents among whom radical- rightists, and former Nazis and neo-Nazis found fertile soil for political parties and pressure groups pursuing a revisionist and irredentist policy.
		The expellee and refugee cause was aided by the Cold War, the division of Europe and of Germany itself.
	www.webcom.com /gerlife/Archives/1995/9506_01.html (3789 words)

	Historical Eastern Germany - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Much of the German-speaking population which lived east of the Oder–Neisse line that had not already been evacuated by German authorities or fled from the advancing Red Army in the winter of 1944–1945 was expelled without compensation, including those who were members of families had lived in the region for generations.
		According to the Federation of Expellees (Bund der Vertriebenen in German), 15 million Germans were displaced from their homes and over 2 million people were killed or died during the process.
		Some Poles were concerned about a possible revival of their 1939 trauma through a second German invasion, this time with the Germans buying all their land, which was cheaply available at the time.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Historical_Eastern_Germany (1289 words)

	FES-Library: FES-Net-Source: History and Politics
		The speedy integration of the refugees and expellees into West German society was the aim of the Allies' and Federal Governments' policies in order to prevent radical and revisionist tendencies and the emergence of a possible centre of conflict in the beginning Cold War.
		The disbandment of the Federal Ministry of Expellee Affairs in 1969 indicated that the integration of the immigrants was considered as completed and coped with.
		While the integration of most expellees and refugees continued and made a large number of personal success stories possible, the expellees' organizations themselves cultivated a fairly screened-off, closed world view, continuing to see themselves as victims of the War and maintaining their culture and customs with financial support from the state.
	library.fes.de /library/netzquelle/zwangsmigration/en-41intro.html (2421 words)

	UJC - Planned Berlin Memorial for WWII German Expellees Triggers Eastern European Unease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A private organization, the Federation for Expellees, launched a drive three years ago to create a memorial for the 12.5 million Germans who lost their ancestral homes in present-day Poland, Czech Republic and other eastern lands.
		The Federation for Expellees, founded in 1944, is led by a conservative politician.
		The Federation of Expellees wants to build a Center against Expulsions as a memorial and learning center in the German capital.
	www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=80896 (727 words)

	Radio Prague - News
		According to the chairman of the federation, Leo Zidek, some 240 people were killed and 200,000 arrested in the forty years of Communist rule.
		At the annual meeting of the Federation of Expellees in Berlin, its president Erika Steinbach criticised the Czech and Polish governments for failing to revoke laws from the post-WWII period that sanctioned the expulsion and confiscation of property of ethnic Germans.
		The Federation of Expellees is a non-profit organisation formed to represent the interests of an estimated 15 million ethnic Germans who were displaced from their homes in Central and Eastern Europe, mainly Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union, during the expulsion of Germans after WWII.
	www.radio.cz /en/news/57839 (761 words)

	EXPULSION OF GERMANS AFTER WORLD WAR II FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The expellee population which in totaled 11,926,000 increased to 12,400,000 in 1950 due to the natural growth in population.
		Although expellees (in German Heimatvertriebene) and their descendants were active in West German politics, the prevailing political climate within West Germany was that of atonement for Nazi actions.
		The expellees are still highly active in German politics, and are one of the major political factions of the nation, with around 2 million members.
	www.delfiores.com /Expulsion_of_Germans_after_World_War_II (3967 words)

	Federation of Expellees: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The federation is currently headed by the CDU[for more, click this link] politician Erika Steinbach (Erika steinbach (born july 25, 1943 as erika hermann) is a german politician controversial for her...)
		The expellees are organized in 21 regional associations (Landsmannschaften) according to the areas of origin of its members, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		Landsmannschaft Weichsel-Warthe Bundesverband e.V. Landsmannschaft Westpreußen (The landsmannschaft westpreußen (territorial association of west prussia) is a federation of heimatvertriebene...)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/federation_of_expellees (3188 words)

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		Steinbach heads the Federation of Expellees, an organization that represents the about 12.5 million Germans and their descendants who were driven away from former German territories in Eastern Europe at the end of World War II.
		It is seen as an attempt to rewrite history and to equate the suffering of German refugees after the war with what Poles and others suffered at the hands of Nazi barbarity.
		Pawelka -- a member of the Federation of Expellees -- who has embarked on a legal battle to achieve what he was denied so far in the political arena.
	courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/040Compecon/Centeur/Poland/040913expellees.txt (806 words)

	Poland: A Zero Sum Game? \| The Agonist
		Since the rise of the Bund der Vertriebenen (Federation for Expellees), the group making the loudest demands for compensation payments to German expellees, Poland has become even more sensitive to the matter of compensation.
		The stake in the game started by the [Federation for Expellees] and the Prussian Trust is the condition of the Polish-German relationship achieved in the last 30 years," Kalicki added.
		Even the controversial Federation for Expellees head Erika Steinbach hinted that her government should consider such a move.
	www.agonist.org /story/2004/9/3/233456/9628 (1562 words)

	Political Parties (Germany)
		It was the party of the expellees and with the ongoing integration of the expellees in the West German society the role of the party dwindled away.
		In 1961 it merged with the remnants of the DP to from the GDP.
		Founded in 1961 as a merger of GB/BHE and the remnants of the DP; after the unsuccessful Bundestag election 1961 most of the former DP members left the party; the short name was changed to GPD in 1966.
	www.fotw.us /flags/de}.html (1096 words)

	Germany
		Federation of Expellees (Bund der Vertriebenen / BdV)
		As the western occupation zones moved to unity in the last years of the 1940s, it became obvious that the governmental entity which would develop would adopt the fl-red-gold of the Weimar Republic and indeed, it was established as the National Flag on 9 May 1949, two weeks before the Federal Republic came into existence.
		The legal prescriptions are the Bekanntmachung betreffend das Bundeswappen und den Bundesadler (Proclamation on the Federal Coat-of-Arms and the Federal Eagle) of 20th January 1950, published in the Bundesgesetzblatt I 1950, p.
	www.fotw.net /flags/de.html (711 words)

	Erika Steinbach: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		She has also been president of the Federation of Expellees (Federation of Expellees: more facts about this subject) since 1998 (succeeding Fritz Wittmann (Fritz Wittmann: dr....
		She is the chairwoman of the newly founded Centre Against Expulsions (Centre Against Expulsions: the german centre against expulsions (ger.
		As part of the same controversy, the Federation of Expellees and Steinbach sued the German journalist Gabriele Lesser (Gabriele Lesser: gabriele lesser (born january 10, 1962) is a german historian and journalist, who...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/erika_steinbach (1173 words)

	German Youth of the East (Germany)
		Originally founded in 1951 as a youth organization of the refugees and expellees from the German East —lost to Poland and the Soviet Union—, it is still in existence nowadays as DJO-Deutsche Jugend in Europa (DJO-German Youth in Europe).
		Originally the DJO wanted the reunification of the lost "East German" territories with the Federal Republic ("West Germany") and the German Democratic Republic ("Central Germany").
		Over the years, and especially after the SPD became the leading party under Chancellor Brandt in 1969, they accepted the fact that these territories are lost to Germany.
	www.fotw.net /FLAGS/de}djo.html (507 words)

	Warsaw-Berlin Tensions Rise Over Expellee Claims \| Europe \| Deutsche Welle \| 06.09.2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The move by the Federal Office for the Sharing of Burdens has also caused problems for some of the Polish immigrants living here in Germany.
		In Poland, few will be happy as long as expellee lobbyists continue their work.
		Such sentiment hasn't stopped groups like the Federation of Expellees (BdV) and the Prussian Claims Society from pushing for settlements.
	www.dw-world.de /popups/popup_printcontent/0,,1319213,00.html (901 words)

	www.german-foreign-policy.com
		Schaefer had directed the federal government's foundation "House of History" until January 2006 and thereby was responsible for the exhibition "Flight, Banishment, Integration", which was designed and inaugurated during his term of office.
		Like its counterpart created by the "Expellees," this exhibition conceals the fact that the resettlement of German-language citizens of neighboring countries was the reactive result of ethnic subversion and political conspiracy.
		Thus in a letter for the procurement of biographical material from the circle of German "Expellees," it was explained that one wants "to present numerous personal stories" and therefore asks for the description of experiences during expulsion.
	www.german-foreign-policy.com /en/fulltext/55973 (1074 words)

	Expatica's German news in English: German post-war refugeesdeny wanting homes back
		She also criticised the plans by a hardline expellee group to sue Warsaw in Polish courts and the European Human Rights Tribunal for recovery of property confiscated when Europe's borders were re-drawn after the Second World War.
		Such a settlement could be reached by next year and would benefit both eastern governments and the expellees by creating certainty, she added.
		She asserted that under German law, the expellees could still play the card of their valid claim to the lost assets, yet Berlin was telling neighbouring countries that such a claim had no validity.
	www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_id=10391 (488 words)

	German revision of history. - Page 2 - OccultForums.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The bottom line is that in the case of the desire by some ethnic Germans who were expelled as a result of losing their lands in the Potsdam agreement want a memorial built to the millions of expellees who died during the expulsion.
		The families of the Expellees do have a right to bring their case before the Law in the 21st Century.
		As she was a daughter of German soldier, only stationed in Poland during the war, and escaped during an evacuation performed by Nazi rather than Polish authorities, Steinbach's status as an expellee, and hence her suitability to head the Federation of Expellees, has been questioned and remains somewhat controversial.
	www.occultforums.com /showthread.php?p=94754 (3779 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Some Germans have threatened to use EU courts to regain their property, and Poles deeply resent their portraying themselves as victims of a war that Adolf Hitler started by invading Poland in September 1939.
		How easily emotions are inflamed became clear last week when the main German expellee lobby group commemorated the Warsaw Uprising in a Berlin church, without inviting any Polish delegates.
		The head of the Federation of Expellees, Erika Steinbach, said at the event that her aim was reconciliation and dialogue.
	www.sltrib.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2386033 (988 words)

	16 - 22 September 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On 16 September, German parliamentarian Erika Steinbach, head of the Bund der Vertriebenen (Federation for Expellees), which represents survivors and descendants of the Germans deported from Central and Eastern Europe, came to Warsaw to confront her Polish opponents in public debate.
		In addition to expellees' groups, the plans are backed mainly by Steinbach's opposition Christian Democrats and the Liberals of the FDP.
		In the wake of the Federation for Expellees' proposal to locate the center in Berlin, a number of alternative sites have been proposed.
	www.tol.cz /look/TOLnew/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=50&NrSection=6&NrArticle=10700&ST1=body&ST_T1=wir&ST_PS1=4&ST_AS1=0&ST_LS1=0&ST_max=1 (965 words)

	Israel joins protest againts planned Berlin memorial for German expellees
		For some here, the millions of Germans who fled or were expelled from their homes in countries throwing off Nazi occupation after World War II are victims of Adolf Hitler.
		A private organization, the Federation for Expellees, launched a drive three years ago to create a memorial for the 12.5 Germans who lost their ancestral homes in present-day Poland, Czech Republic and other eastern lands.
		In the chaos that emerged during the Nazi defeat, with millions of Europeans fleeing advancing armies and formerly occupied nations re-establishing control, more than 2.5 Germans were expelled from areas that became Poland and 3 million from the Sudentenland in the present-day Czech Republic, along with millions of other Germans from other countries.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/947880/posts (821 words)

	CNN.com - Backing for Nazi expellees memorial - Aug. 18, 2003
		A leading German conservative has come out in favor of a planned memorial in Berlin to Germans who fled or were expelled from Eastern Europe after the Nazis' defeat, dismissing concerns expressed by the country's eastern neighbors and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder that it could gloss over Nazi atrocities.
		The private Federation of Expellees said Monday it had expressed interest in a former air-raid shelter in the capital as a site for the "Center against Expulsions," commemorating the estimated 12.5 million Germans who lost their ancestral homes in present-day Poland, Czech Republic and other eastern lands.
		The Federation of Expellees, which started its drive for the memorial three years ago, says it has brought Polish, Czech and other foreign historians and advisers on board.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/08/18/german.memorial.ap (481 words)

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