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=== Expulsion to Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany=== In 1946, the Soviets began emptying [[Sambia Peninsula|Samland]] (or Sambia Peninsula) of Germans. In October 1947, the Soviets decided to resettle 30,000 Germans from [[Kaliningrad Oblast]] in the [[Soviet occupation zone|Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany]] by train. In 1947, the Soviet Union sent trainloads of orphans to the Occupation Zone; these train rides took four to seven days, partly without food or toilet facilities and some children did not survive.<ref>[http://www.politische-bildung-brandenburg.de/publikationen/pdf/wolfskinder.pdf Ruth Leiserowitz: ''Von Ostpreußen nach Kyritz. Wolfskinder auf dem Weg nach Brandenburg.'' (title translated: From East Prussia to Kyritz. Wolf children on their way to Brandenburg.) Brandenburgische Zentrale für politische Bildung, Potsdam 2003] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716234125/http://www.politische-bildung-brandenburg.de/publikationen/pdf/wolfskinder.pdf |date=2011-07-16 }}, {{ISBN|3-932502-33-7}}, p. 31</ref> On 15 February 1948, the Ministerial Council of the USSR decided to resettle all Germans in the former East Prussia, declaring them illegal residents in their own homeland. According to Soviet sources, 102,125 people were resettled in 1947 and 1948. Of those, only 99,481 arrived, though sources of the [[German Democratic Republic]] (East Germany) attributed this to "perhaps a Soviet calculation error." In May 1951, another 3,000 East Prussian ''Umsiedler'' Germans came to East Germany. Some orphans managed to flee from East Germany to [[West Germany]] where they had better living conditions.<ref>{{in lang|de}} [[Sabine Bode]]: ''[[Die vergessene Generation]]. Die Kriegskinder brechen ihr Schweigen.'' (title translated to English language: The forgotten generation. War children break their silence.) Erweiterte und aktualisierte Taschenbuchausgabe. Piper Verlag GmbH, München, March 2011. ISBN 978-3--492-26405-1. P. 141-142.</ref> At that time, some of the young orphans had no knowledge of their identity, information in search files was vague, and the occupational development difficult.<ref>{{in lang|de}} [[Sabine Bode]]: ''[[Die vergessene Generation]]. Die Kriegskinder brechen ihr Schweigen.'' (title translated to English language: The forgotten generation. War children break their silence.) Erweiterte und aktualisierte Taschenbuchausgabe. Piper Verlag GmbH, München, March 2011. ISBN 978-3--492-26405-1. P. 142.</ref>
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