The Exodus of Romanias German-speaking Minority | People & Politics

Lawyer Heinz Günther Hüsch is estimated to have paid the former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu around €500 million for the privilege of taking around 220,000 Romanians of German extraction out of the country.More than forty years later, he has now broken his silence on the events surrounding the exodus.

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[paradanmellow]

@kekedog I see, thanks for sharing! It's good to know people get along despite politics :)

[kekedog]

@paradanmellow i am a chinese,but in my campus there are several german teachers who teaches german,and one of them's grandfather comes from Romania,and he is one of the ethnic germans in romania,and his wife is a romanian woman,and the teacher told me that germans and romanians lived friendly before 1945,and in fact,his grandfather have never been to germany before 1945,and he considered himself as a romanian rather than german,and his father even joins romanian army....

[paradanmellow]

@kekedog are you romanian or german? do you know from experience?

[kekedog]

@paradanmellow but before 1945,romanian people live friendly with german people,stalin is the massmurderer

[paradanmellow]

what's all the sadness about, they wanted to leave, so they did; no one invited them to colonize Romanian land in the first place

[2qoncept]

The exodus of the nazis to a new leberstraum



[1Project1Haiduc1]

I finished watching the video. I left my previous comment at the halfway point. It was actually more balanced than what I expected from the video's opening. Solid work by Deutsche Welle!

[1Project1Haiduc1]

Ask yourself how many Romanians wanted to leave Communist Romania as well, but couldn't because there was no "West Romania" where they could go to?

Overall an interesting report, but slightly one-sided. I have no doubt West Germany also benefited from receiving highly-skilled and well-educated Transylvanian Saxons and Banat Schwabians. 6,000 euros for an engineer... quite a low price for a skilled worker.

[LaVoix555]

Stupid, stupid Ceausescu

[webozzy21]

interesting report, thanks.