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The Federal Law on Refugees and Exiles (German: Bundesvertriebenengesetz, BVFG; Gesetz über die Angelegenheiten der Vertriebenen und Flüchtlinge; literally: Law on the affairs of the expellees and refugees) is a federal law passed by the Federal Republic of Germany on 19 May 1953 to regulate the legal situation of ethnic German refugees and expellees who fled or were expelled after World War II from the former eastern territories of the German Reich and other areas of Central and Eastern Europe. The law was amended on 3 September 1971.
The major force behind the law was the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights party, which had among its supporters – besides German citizens, who had fled or were expelled from formerly German territory annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union – many formerly non-citizens, who experienced by the end of World War II and the post-war years of ethnic cleansing, denaturalisation, robbing and humiliation (1945–1950) carried out by the governments of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia.
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who were forcibly deported. By the definition of the West German FederalExpelleeLaw, enacted on 19 May 1953, refugees of German citizenship or German...
eligible for special resettlement and nationality acquisition. The FederalExpelleeLaw defines a qualifying person as any ethnic German who was domiciled...
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from 1951 to 1982 at 894,000; they are also considered expellees under German FederalExpelleeLaw. The German population east of Oder-Neisse was estimated...
from the Soviet occupation zone, was carried out according to the FederalExpelleeLaw of 1953. Identity cards A and B were for displaced persons and refugees...
reported an actual membership of 550,000. The German FederalExpelleeLaw of 1953 defines as expellee all German nationals and ethnic Germans with a primary...
and later in the reunified Germany. In 1953 the Federal Republic of Germany – by its FederalExpelleeLaw – naturalised many more East European nationals...
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the expellees in post-war West Germany, which granted the right of return to the German diaspora, was legally defined in the FederalExpelleeLaw of 1953...
maintained that death toll in the expulsions is 2,251,500 persons. The FederalExpelleeLaw (BVFG) defines the expulsion area (einheitliches Vertreibungsgebiet;...
Flucht und Vertreibung. The project was initiated by the Federation of Expellees, who dedicated a "Foundation Centre Against Expulsions" to the centre...
populations in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Eight million German expellees and refugees eventually settled in West Germany. Between 1946 and 1949...
Federal elections were held in West Germany on 15 September 1957 to elect the members of the third Bundestag. The Christian Democratic Union and its longtime...
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founded in 2000 as Preußische Treuhand GmbH by some descendants of German expellees, and supported by some officials of the Landsmannschaft Schlesien organization...
Czechoslovakia became clear, the German expellee lobby swung into action and organized protests all over the Federal Republic while bombarding the offices...
Federal elections were held in West Germany on 6 September 1953 to elect the members of the second Bundestag. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged...
German Reich within the boundaries of December 31, 1937, as a refugee or expellee of German ethnic origin or as the spouse or descendant of such person"...
of Germany. However, contrary to the official claims, the bulk of the expelleés would likely have no real intention of returning to their homeland. In...
as material to be used against the Soviet Union Federal ministry for expellees Integration of expellees into West German society The project had its roots...
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