Featured German or... Dutch?

If any of them were called Hornung, you could be related to my late husband.

 

Thank you, Any, so kind of you! I cannot contribute much to most discussions because of lack of knowledge furthermore, recently there is nothing I can show and ask about (because of many reasons) but I still keep reading you and commenting, if I can.

Oh, absolutely, I myself belong to such a country, but in spite of that it keeps being done by the world powers, so the trouble is being resurrected continuously

One of my friends has her grandgrandma and pa who were among the Koeningsberg Germans sent to Siberia. Now she lives in Germany as they are given citizenship on the basis of their German origin. She has told me very sad and moving stories . Many like her moved to Germany after the collapse of USSR but it is difficult especially for older generations because they speak better Russian than German, and cannot fit well into the society although they receive a lot of support from the state and from people. Very sad

Exactly... Very clever, that guy was....

Absolutely! Especially for the Baltic states and Poland but also for the rest of Europe and beyond. And we have already seen ourselves given as trophies to Russia, so all of us (Eastern Europe) know how it feels and that it can happen again. And we are helpless. World powers don't change.

I don't see any chance that Russia stops making problems.

 

Yes, it is very sad. Also their culture, though German, is different from that of Germany.
There are also many ethnic Germans from Hungary and Rumania who had to flee and were taken in by Germany. They were descendants of people who went to H and R in the Middle Ages, and had developed their own culture. But they were forced from their homes and ended up in a new homeland that was foreign to them.

I agree. It is a worrying fact.

 

With families of 9, 11, 14 children there's no telling.

 

I should have been more clear, Hornung is a surname.

 

In-laws, outlaws, and gray area-laws ... could be. Some cousins ended up in Deadwood, South Dakota.