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Collective punishment
Punishment imposed on a group for actions attributed to some of its members, often used to intimidate, deter, or reshape a population.
Emigration
The act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another. After 1945, many displaced persons emigrated to the United States, Canada, Australia, and Latin America because they could not or would not return to their countries of origin.
Ethnic Germans
Of or belonging to a population group or subgroup who share a common cultural background or descent; the "Aryans" according to Nazi ideology.
Malgré-nous
French for "against our will." The term refers to approximately 130,000 men from Alsace and Lorraine who were conscripted into the German armed forces after Germany annexed these French territories in 1940. After the war, they faced suspicion from both French and German authorities.