Expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe
1945–1950 · Event
Some 12 million ethnic Germans are expelled from Poland, Czechoslovakia and beyond in the largest forced migration in European history; at least half a million die.
On these timelines: Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Master, Germany
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- Revolutions of 1989 (1989)
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569)
- Union of Lublin (1569)
- Hungarian Revolution (1956)
- Poland regains independence (1918)
- Ottoman Balkans (1354)
- Cyril and Methodius mission to the Slavs (863)
- Euromaidan (2013)
Around 1945
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)