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Expulsion of Germans from Hungary (1946)
On the Refugee crises map as “Budaörs: the first train”
19 Jan 1946 — The first train deporting Hungary’s Germans leaves Budaörs, outside Budapest, for the American zone. Over two years more than 200,000 Danube Swabians are sent west, selected largely by the nationality or mother tongue they had declared in the 1941 census.
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- Expulsion of Germans after WW2 (chapter 2 of Refugee crises)
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- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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