My mothers grandparents were Volga German exiled by the Tsar. As a young child I was confused how they were from Russia but spoke German. The history of the migrants to Russia after the 7 years war is an interesting one.
They ask for german language proficiency. For older folks it is a rather easy test, but it is still required. Some are suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, and find it difficult to get help because most of their kids moved to Germany, and cant easily commute to Russia because of the war.
@trainbomb I never said Hitler's Germany did not go into Czechoslovakia and commit atrocities. I was remarking about the so-called German Bohemians or Sudeten Germans, German-speaking Czechs who became part of that country due to the Versailles treaty of no fault of their own and were later-- without exception-- stripped of their homes and forcibly expelled, never to be allowed to return, in 1945. My family lived in the same town for 400 years and were very active in their community. The town eventually became part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and I had great uncles and my great grandfather who were conscripted into the KuK (Austrian Army) and sent to fight and die against the Russians and Italians. Two were captured by the Russians and sent to Siberia where they later joined the Czech Legion and helped to fight for Czech Independence from Austria. Then my grandfather and uncles were in the Czech Army in 1938 when the West stabbed the country in the back and gave in to Hitler's demands. They escaped to France and later Britain and fought against the Germans to regain Czech independence. Their reward: since they grew up in an area that spoke German and had German-sounding last names, even though they fought in the "Free Czech" Army against the Germans and were descendants of men who fought for a Free Czechoslovakia against the Austrian Kaiser, their homes were stripped from them as were all of their possessions and they were forced to leave the country at the point of a rifle. Towns their families had lived in going back to the 16th Century. That's what I mean about listen to the story of the "German" Czechs who loved their country but lost their homeland.
What about the millions of native Americans you Germans genocided and displaced in North America? When will we get our land back and you Northern Europeans will go back to Europe? Go back home already!!
@@CapCodyWell there is one thing the Czechs and Polish can do to atone for the Horrific Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide of Ethnic Germans they committed. They can apologise and teach it in their Schools, thereby they will show that they are better than the Nazis by admitting they committed one of the Worst Crimes against Humanity and Attempted Genocides as well as the worst case of Ethnic Cleansing in History.
Czechoslovakians were so nice that they opened their doors to Germans and Germans repaid them by torturing and killing their families. Also some Germans have some nerve talking about atrocities and crimes against humanity after they tortured, gassed and killed more than 40 million civilians including children. Repent......
My father's family were Black Sea Germans who came to the United States between 1880 and 1906. I never knew what happened to the family that remained behind in Russia until recently. So sad!
My grandmother's family were Volga Germans. They came to America and settled in Fresno. They spoke German, kept their Lutheran faith, and German culture while in Russia. Due to Russia not wanting them when Nazi Germany and Hitler came to power and Germany not wanting them because they had lived in Russia, they were people without a country.
The point is that they seek their way to Russia (as it said many seek) and even inside Russia the grannies like those seek better locations they were exiled from
My mothers grandparents were Volga German exiled by the Tsar. As a young child I was confused how they were from Russia but spoke German. The history of the migrants to Russia after the 7 years war is an interesting one.
Even if they don’t want to go back, Germany should guarantee they have that opportunity. In Germany of course.
I think they have. There are big Russian-German communities all over our country.
We established a law in the 90s to give free passage to ethnic Germans from the former Soviet union, which is still intact :)
@@mzudemartin Yes, but it's not that easy anymore. They need to have good results in languages tests for example.
They ask for german language proficiency. For older folks it is a rather easy test, but it is still required. Some are suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, and find it difficult to get help because most of their kids moved to Germany, and cant easily commute to Russia because of the war.
What about the Germans kicked out of Czechoslovakia? Google that!
@trainbomb I never said Hitler's Germany did not go into Czechoslovakia and commit atrocities. I was remarking about the so-called German Bohemians or Sudeten Germans, German-speaking Czechs who became part of that country due to the Versailles treaty of no fault of their own and were later-- without exception-- stripped of their homes and forcibly expelled, never to be allowed to return, in 1945. My family lived in the same town for 400 years and were very active in their community. The town eventually became part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and I had great uncles and my great grandfather who were conscripted into the KuK (Austrian Army) and sent to fight and die against the Russians and Italians. Two were captured by the Russians and sent to Siberia where they later joined the Czech Legion and helped to fight for Czech Independence from Austria. Then my grandfather and uncles were in the Czech Army in 1938 when the West stabbed the country in the back and gave in to Hitler's demands. They escaped to France and later Britain and fought against the Germans to regain Czech independence. Their reward: since they grew up in an area that spoke German and had German-sounding last names, even though they fought in the "Free Czech" Army against the Germans and were descendants of men who fought for a Free Czechoslovakia against the Austrian Kaiser, their homes were stripped from them as were all of their possessions and they were forced to leave the country at the point of a rifle. Towns their families had lived in going back to the 16th Century. That's what I mean about listen to the story of the "German" Czechs who loved their country but lost their homeland.
Sad thing about sudenland, but there isnt anything to do about that
What about the millions of native Americans you Germans genocided and displaced in North America? When will we get our land back and you Northern Europeans will go back to Europe? Go back home already!!
@@CapCodyWell there is one thing the Czechs and Polish can do to atone for the Horrific Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide of Ethnic Germans they committed. They can apologise and teach it in their Schools, thereby they will show that they are better than the Nazis by admitting they committed one of the Worst Crimes against Humanity and Attempted Genocides as well as the worst case of Ethnic Cleansing in History.
Czechoslovakians were so nice that they opened their doors to Germans and Germans repaid them by torturing and killing their families. Also some Germans have some nerve talking about atrocities and crimes against humanity after they tortured, gassed and killed more than 40 million civilians including children. Repent......
My father's family were Black Sea Germans who came to the United States between 1880 and 1906. I never knew what happened to the family that remained behind in Russia until recently. So sad!
My grandmother's family were Volga Germans. They came to America and settled in Fresno. They spoke German, kept their Lutheran faith, and German culture while in Russia. Due to Russia not wanting them when Nazi Germany and Hitler came to power and Germany not wanting them because they had lived in Russia, they were people without a country.
That's so sad. I'm glad your family made it to America.
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Not "most of Russian Germans resettled in Germany", far from that
Glad my Volga German ancestors was smart enough to get out right before ww1 and moved to Iowa and then to wisconsin
"Do you want to go back?"
Ethnic German, "no."
What was the point of this video?
The point is that they seek their way to Russia (as it said many seek) and even inside Russia the grannies like those seek better locations they were exiled from
They want to go back to Moscow or Ukraine. Siberia kinda sucks, at least the weather does.
A way back where? Germany is just a refugee camp now