Sentence examples for expellees as from inspiring English sources

As such, refugees and expellees, as well as the associations into which they organised themselves, soon attracted the interest of the state.

Poland and the Czech Republic, which include former Prussian and German territories, tend to see the demands of the expellees as an attempt to claim victimhood status for Germans who were, of course, the aggressors during World War II.

The mustachioed man unbuckled his knife and cut upwards a hole in the tent and pulled the kid through after him, they moved across the rain-pelted road, behind them the tent exploded inward from shots and cries, other expellees pushed through holes as the whole thing began to move like an animal, desperate, until it finally crumbled on one side and then the other, an elephant brought to its knees.

Although organisations of expellees emerged to plead their case, mainstream Germany as well as foreign governments ignored them because their plight cast Germans as victims.

Most expellees fled to West Germany, in some partsaccounting for nearly a quarter of the population.

Opinion polls have shown that most Germans no longer have much sympathy for expellees.

Erika Steinbach, head of the expellees' group, professes to be pleased.

Many individual expellees joined in this collective suppression and did not even tell their children what had happened.

An outfit for surviving expellees said it was a bid to divide them (they want compensation for all Germans, not just good ones).

In 2008, she told The Independent: "It is especially the wartime victor countries like Britain that have difficulty in accepting the plight of the German expellees".

The issue was largely settled with Germany in 1997, but there are some 250,000 expellees and their relatives in Austria whose votes Mr. Haider is seeking.