expellee

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Political pressure groups and leaders: employers 'organizations; expellee, refugee, trade unions, and veterans groups

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  • Germany and Poland averted a row over a controversial museum that is to depict expellee experiences, with a Polish envoy saying he was confident he could trust German Chancellor Angela Merkel. —  Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE
  • Controversial German withdraws expellee museum post bid - Summary —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • The enormous expellee leagues gained a stranglehold on politics. —  London Review of Books
  • She's an important figure in the German Federation of Expellees, which is an important pressure group in Germany (millions of people belong, and they vote) and she is a hyper-conservative, she's not really an expellee herself, and is involved in setting up a museum about the expulsions in Berlin which the Polish government vehemently objects to. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • Political pressure groups and leaders: employers 'organizations; expellee, refugee, trade unions, and veterans groups —  The 2000 CIA World Factbook
 

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