Emigration to and from the German-Russian Volga Colonies
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Publisher Description
This book covers the emigration of the "Catherine the Great" Germans into the Volga River area in the mid to late 1700's, the movement of the Volga German-Russians further east of the Volga River into Russia's Steppes, the western exodus of the Volga German-Russians to the United States, Canada, Germany, Brazil and Argentina in the late 1800's and early 1900's, the Stalin ordered deportation of all Volga German-Russians to Siberia in the 1940's, and their final emigrations back to Germany and their long gone Volga River Colonies. This is my fourth book on the history of the Volga Colonies.
Customer Reviews
A Concise Glimpse into Volga Germans, and who they (WE) are!
I learned many new things by reading, and with that, many new things to research! This is a quick read (maybe 3hrs?) but has a wealth of information, including many “shout-outs” (in the parlance of of our time) to where the hearty German people, far removed from Hitler’s Germany, were persecuted and disbursed. Apparently Catharine the Great’s offer was “too good to be true” and from that, generations later I was vehemently taught “Shame me once, shame on you. Shame me twice, shame on me!” My heart aches from the thousands upon thousands of individuals lost on the treacherous journeys both to and from the Volga. May we all return to those years of prosperity in our own lives. Until then, „Wir sind Wolgadeutsche!“
Bless.