West-bound refugee trek 1944

July 1944: A refugee trek of so-called Black Sea Germans in Hungary fleeing westward from the Red Army. The inhabitants of former German settlements in Southern Russia north of the Black Sea from Odessa in the West to the North Caucasus in the East are called Black Sea Germans. German settlers founded these settlements in the 18th and especially the early 19th century.

"Flüchtlingstreck in Richtung Deutschland", black-and-white photograph, Hungary, 1944, photographer: Dissmann; source: German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv), Image 183-W0402-500; wikimedia commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-W0402-500,_Fl%C3%BCchtlingstreck_in_Richtung_Deutschland.jpg.

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