2024/01/01 by Felix Riefer · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics #German History and Society #European Politics and Security
paper · doi:10.35998/oe-2024-096
openalex publication_date 2024/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/05
In Germany, Russian Germans are viewed mostly through the lens of commonplace notions of the Soviet Union and Russia. Knowledge of the fate of the Russian Germans remains limited. It has been forgotten that, as members of a national minority, they were politically persecuted as a result of the Second World War and discriminated against for decades. The same applies to their struggle for emancipation, rehabilitation, and emigration from the Soviet Union. In Germany, they are often wrongly portrayed as a Russian diaspora.