In 1952 and 1961 thousands of East German people where expelled from their homes.
Why? Just because they lived close to the border to West Germany and the government was afraid that they might flee to the west.
In this video I wil explain how the re-settlements were organized and I will show what happened to the village of Jahrsau.


Important source that I used while creating this video is the book "Zwangsaussiedlungen an der innerdeutschen Grenze" by Inge Bennewitz and Rainer Potratz.

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