THE DAY IN HISTORY · JANUARY 19
January 19 in history
What happened on January 19: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 1946, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Expulsion of Germans from Hungary
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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