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Panic as the Red Army approaches

19th March 1944: There is chaos in eastern Poland as the Nazis depart and the German 'settlers' are abandoned to their fate

Mar 19, 2024
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Poles were evicted to make way for Ethnic Germans - Volksdeutsche - who were resettled in what became ‘Greater Germany’ in 1940

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