expellee

Examples

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• One month later, Polish Foreign Minister Geremek declared publicly that Poland rejected all compensation claims by German expellees.

  Academic text (2001)

• Reconciliation between Germans and Poles must not exclude anyone; it must embrace the expellees as well.

  Academic text (1990)

• The problem of expellees was closely linked to minority issues.

  Academic text (2001)

• The fate of German expellees is intended as a focal point.

  Academic text (2001)

• The expellees have not been chastened by their loss of access to governing circles in Berlin.

  Academic text (2001)

• After the war, only the Sudeten German expellees formed a cohesive and highly influential interest group in Germany.

  Academic text (2001)

• After 1989, legal, political, and moral questions concerning the rights of expellees to return and to claim expropriated property were on the agenda.

  Academic text (2001)

• Emotions remained strong enough that treaty negotiations were unable to resolve expellee issues between the Germans and Poles or the Germans and Czechoslovaks.

  Academic text (2001)

• The letter implicitly recognized the suffering of German expellees, thereby acknowledging their claim to victimhood for the first time.

  Academic text (2001)

• For these reasons, Havel dismissed expellee demands for restitution or compensation, just as he rejected calls to abandon the Benes Decrees.

  Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

D

deportee

vsexpellee

4 7.2

A person who is forced to leave a country and sent back to their home country

is forced to leave any place, not only by official orders

Surface Forms

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Etymology