Displacements ethnic Germans from East Prussia, Danzig, Eastern Europe, Russia and the Balkans continued long after World War Two.
Maria Wiederhold’s brother George Heinrich Pallasch and his wife, Agnes nee Sieberg, and their family were not as fortunate as the Wiederholds.
Gerhard, the youngest son was killed near Moscow in November 1941. Their daughter, Charlotte's husband Horst Boelcke was captured in 1945 and went missing. Charlotte and her children were relocated.
In March 1945 bombs were falling all around George and Agnes’s long-time home in Langfuhr. The Russians arrived soon after, took over their house and ransacked it. The Poles moved into their house and took over George and Max’s business.
Food could not be bought nor stolen. By May, Agnes and George became ill and died shortly thereafter.
The remaining Pallasch family were evicted by the Poles – ethnic cleansing.
