The group, which describes East Prussia as "the Atlantis of the German East," has more than 4,000 members and dozens of posts a day.Ĭhristine Schoenwiese recently co-founded an East Prussia meeting group in Leipzig. "It shouldn't be called northern Poland, it should be eastern Germany," wrote one user on a Facebook group organizing meetings for expellees of East Prussia, though the region has not existed as such for over 70 years.
In recent years, social media has enabled expellees and their descendents to gather both online and offline. Read more: Rupture emerges in AfD around extreme regional leader HöckeĬhristina Schoenwiese says the expulsions were 'hushed up' in the former East Germany These questions have dropped off the political agenda - and the AfD is trying to make use of that. But others see themselves as the true "victims" of World War II, and talk about an "ethnic cleansing of the German East." The rights of expellees and Germany's eastern border were once fiercely disputed topics. They gather in pubs to talk about their genealogy, attend memorials for their ancestors who fled from the Red Army, and use online forums to speak of their "Heimat" - an evocative German notion of "homeland."įor some, this takes the form of simply appreciating the varied cultures that comprise German history. Many of them have never visited the lands of their ancestors, but still feel tied to those places decades later. With ancestors who were expelled from the formerly eastern German region of East Prussia, Höcke is one of many such "expellees" and their descendants. This is the most complete guide to the rules of aviation available anywhere.Firebrand AfD politician Björn Höcke campaigning in Thuringia ahead of October 27 elections
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