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Evangelical-Lutheran
church in Walter (Gretschino) - Volga Region |
Opera
house in Odessa |
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Girls'
school in Chortitza, Ukraine |
Column
of refugees |
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Parlor
in peasant dwelling - (Kamenka) -Elisabethdorf, Volhynia
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Catholic
church in Bähr (Kamenka) - Volga Region |
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Passport |
Farm
in Straßburg near Odessa |
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Großliebenthal
near Odessa |
Gnadenburg,
Caucasus: Plan of a typical Russian-German village |
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Blessing
the harvest in the Crimea |
Steam-powered
mill in Nikopol, Ukraine |
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Sugar
factory in the Golovtschino area, Kursk |
Driving
to a wedding |
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Evangelical
church in Eugenfeld, Tauren |
Klemens
Cathedral in Saratov, Volga region |
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Peter
and Paul Evangelical Church, Moscow |
St.
Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Odessa |
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Parish
church in Karlsruhe, Beresan region |
Mennonite
house of worship, Orloff, Molotschna |
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Mennonite
parish church, Karaganda, Kazakhstan |
Combination
house of worship and school, Hochheim, Ukraine |
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Central
school in Orlovskoje, Volga region |
German
Gymnasium (high school) Omsk, Siberia |
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Pedagogical
Institute, Engels |
Memorial
in the Mölln Cemetery |
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Government
building of the Volga- German Republic in its capital, Engels
(Pokrovsk), 1938 |
Refugee
column to the Wartheland, 1943/1944 |
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"Refugees"
by Viktor Aul |
Germans
floating down the Wyschegda (Komi ASSR, 1948) |
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German
women working in the woods in their place of exile (Udmurtische
ASSR, 1952) |
"Woman
in the Trud Army," Jakob Wedel, Russian-German painter and
sculptor |
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Demonstration
on Red Square in Moscow |
The
Family Scholenberg, Kara-Balta, Kirghiz, asks for permission
to immigrate to Germany |
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The most important settlement
areas of the Russian-Germans, 1939 compared with 1989 [See
also map entitled, "Former and present areas of settlement
of the Germans in the Soviet Union"] |
Agricultural - Urban Germans
- Mother tongue |
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Delegates to the All-Union
Conference of the Russian-Germans in Moscow, 1989 |
Asowo Rayon (district),
Playing children |
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 The
German Rayon
(district) Halbstadt in
Krosj Altai was already in
existence before WWII
(1928-1939). The German villages in
this region were founded
shortly before WWI. |
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"German Street" in Saratov,
Volga |
Sign welcoming visitors
to Halbstadt |
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Asowo (near Omsk): Habitations
constructed of containers, built with the support of the
Federal Ministry of the Interior, Bonn |
Single family houses in
Stepnoje (Volga region), likewise sponsored by the Federal
Ministry of the Interior |
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German festival Heimat
(home) 1992 in Volgorad, Kamyschin and Moscow |
Former church, now a factory,
in Dobrinka, oldest German settlement on the Volga, 1992
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A Russian-German woman
in Dobrinka reads her Bible every day, 1992 |
St. Paul's letter to the
Philippians, 1:1 - 2:24 |
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Map of the Rayon
(district) Halbstadt/Altai |
Student choir - Halbstadt |
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Wreath at the Friedland
cross, 1992 |
and the graves are left
behind |
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"St. Nicholas is coming,"
Russian-German children's group in Langen, Hessen 1995 |
Russian-German choir,
Karlsruhe |
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Youth on an outing. Photo:
Rainer Schmidt |
Alois Reiss |
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Bundestreffen of
the Landsmannschaft of the Germans from Russia |
Meritorious Service Medal
for Alois Reiss |
