In 1914–1915, the Russian Empire forcibly deported local inhabitants from Russian-occupied areas of East Prussia to more remote areas of the empire, particularly Siberia. The official rationale was to reduce espionage and other resistance behind the Russian front lines.[1] As many as 13,600 people, including children and the elderly, were deported.[2] Due to difficult living conditions, the mortality rates were high, and only 8,300 people returned home after the war.[2]
The deportations had not received much attention from scholars, as they were overshadowed by the much larger refugee crisis in the Russian Empire[3] and the expulsion of Germans after World War II.[4]
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