Deportation of Germans from Romania after World War II

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Flight and expulsion of Germans during and after World War II

(demographic estimates)
Background
1944–50 flight and expulsion of Germans German–Soviet population transfers Potsdam Agreement
Wartime flight and evacuation
German evacuation East Prussia
Post-war flight and expulsion
Czechoslovakia Poland (incl. former German territories) Netherlands Romania
Later emigration
Refugees in Schleswig-Holstein Emigration from Poland
Other themes
Wolf children
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Forced population transfer in the Soviet Union
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Policies
Dekulakization Evacuation Forced settlements Gulag
Peoples
Azerbaijanis from Armenia Balkars Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina Chechens and Ingush Chinese Crimean Tatars Estonians Germans from Romania Greeks NKVD operation Ingrian Finns NKVD operation Kalmyks Karachays Koreans Kurds from Transcaucasia Latvians NKVD operation Lithuanians Meskhetian Turks Poles 1944–1946 1955–1959 Between Poland and Soviet Ukraine Between Poland and Soviet Belarus Between Poland and Soviet Lithuania
Operations
June deportation German–Soviet population transfers Operation North Operation Osen Operation Priboi Operation Vesna Operation Vistula
WWII POW labor
POW Administration Japanese Germans Hungarians Romanians
Massive labor force transfers
Twenty-five-thousanders NKVD labor columns Virgin Lands campaign
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The deportation of Germans from Romania after World War II, conducted on Soviet order early in 1945, uprooted 60,000 to 75,000 of Romania's Germans to the USSR; at least 3,000 of the deportees died before release. The deportation was part of the Soviet plan for German war reparations in the form of forced labor, according to the 1944 secret Soviet Order 7161. Most of the survivors returned to Romania between late 1945 and 1952, with a smaller part settling in various parts of Germany.