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Russian-German history as migration history
Russian Germans are a global minority. Their history is often characterized by migration within and outside the Russian Empire spanning several generations. In the last third of the 19th century, popular migration destinations included North and South America as well as new settlement areas in Siberia and Kazakhstan. It was here that all Russian Germans were then exiled during and after the Second World War. Since the latest period of resettlement in the 1980s and 1990s, most Russian Germans have settled in Germany.
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The box from the Wolga
Audiences of the play "The box from the Volga" (Die Kist‘ von der Wolga) experience, first hand, the history of the Volga Germans and get to take part in important events from the past. The actors make history tangible by embodying key cultural heritage figures, some of whom are real, such as the...