Escape and displacement of the Germans from the East - a topic that is still highly explosive today. A taboo in the GDR and the states of Eastern Europe until the turn, it was instrumentalized in the Federal Republic of Germany right from the start. Associations and politicians loudly demanded: "Silesia is our", asked for compensation for expropriations. The fate of the people who had to start the long march to the west was too short. The three -part series "The displaced" just wants to tell her story. Contemporary witnesses often report their dramatic experiences for the first time. It is important: Germans and Poles, Germans and Czechs have their say, because only those who hear both sides will find out what happened and why it happened. And only those who hear both sides miss the danger of trivializing the history of the displacement, brutal German rule in the east.
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