Word: pomerania
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...Lucky One. Karl Schwarzenberg inherited a 200-acre farm near Stargard, in Pomerania, where Germans had lived since 1253. He prospered, especially during...
When the Red Army overran Pomerania, Karl Schwarzenberg lost his geese and chickens, two or three cows. In July, when the Polish military government took over, his horses and bank account were confiscated. He was given 24 hours to leave his farm. With his five children, two to 14 years old, he set out, some of his household goods piled in a hand cart, and wandered on foot for two weeks. Somewhere he was forced to leave one child in a hospital with scarlet fever...
...years the dynamic Germans pushed the Slavic peoples eastward, across the Spree, across the Oder, out of Pomerania and Silesia, out of the flatlands of East Prussia. Now Germans-at least ten million of them-were losing their lands to Slavs...
...what was once eastern Germany, an anguished tide of humanity, one of the greatest mass movements of Germans in history, flowed toward the borders of the shrunken Reich. At least 10,000,000 hungry Germans were being uprooted from their old homes in East Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, Sudetenland by the new Polish, Czech and Russian owners...
...Silesia, the Sudetenland, East Prussia and Pomerania, surly, stony-eyed Ger mans hid their belongings against the day when they would have to move. Some would go east, to Russia and forced labor. The lucky ones would go west, to a new and humbler life...