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A cautionary tale: after living in Germany for generations, German Jews thought they were pretty well assimilated. The rest, as they say, is history.

• rayiner 4y ago
  Not just Germany. Jews across Europe, for example in Poland, had lived harmoniously with their neighbors for hundreds of years until their neighbors turned on them. When times get difficult, there’s really no telling what can happen. As I was telling my dad the other day, it’s nice as Bangladeshis that we have an ethnostate we can always return to.
  • lmz 4y ago
    > As I was telling my dad the other day, it’s nice as Bangladeshis that we have an ethnostate we can always return to. Does this extend to others too? Is it maybe best to make Germany an Ethnostate so when they are thrown out of some other country they have some place to return to?
    • klipt 4y ago
      Already happened, the Soviets expelled German minorities from Eastern Europe, and East Germany absorbed them. Of course, that expulsion was mostly because Germany invaded Eastern Europe in the first place.
      • xyzzyz 4y ago
        The expelled German Russians had little to do with the invading Nazi Germans.
        • type0 4y ago
          You probably mean Russian Germans like Volga Germans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_Germans#Deportation_and_genocide_of_the_Germans_from_USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_Germans#Deportation_and_...
      • hackandthink 4y ago
        I guess most of the 12-14 million people went to West Germany. "after WWII, the Allies carried out the largest forced population transfer -- nowadays referred to as "ethnic cleansing" -- in human history. Between 12 and 14 million civilians" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/expulsion-germans-forced-migration_b_1625437 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/expulsion-germans-forced-migr...
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