Posted on 11/18/2017 11:34:02 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Between 1944 and 1947, an estimated 12 million ethnic Germans fled or were expelled from their homes. Overshadowed by the crimes of the Nazis, their stories have often received little international attention. But these days, as Bethany Bell reports from Germany, the new arrivals from Syria have awakened old memories about what it means to flee.
Christa Nolte carefully lifted a little book out of a box of family papers.
"This is what my grandmother, Anna, took with her when we fled," she told me. "It was important for her to save it."
It was a pocket-sized Lutheran hymnal, the Silesian Church's Songbook.
Christa was a war baby, born in April 1943. Her family came from the town of Goldberg in Silesia, which back then was part of Germany. Today it's in Poland.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Is it because like the Syrian ‘refugees’, they too have tried to take over the world and ruin Western civilization more than once?
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