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On April 6, 1948, a significant portion of the population of the village of Ecseny in Somogy County, Hungary, was expelled from their homeland. This was the result of Protocol XIII of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 calling for "the orderly and humane transfer of German populations now living in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary."

The families involved were descendants of German settlers who began to arrive in what would become the village of Ecseny as early as 1754. They formed an Evangelical Lutheran congregation at the outset that would survive as an underground movement until the...

On April 6, 1948, a significant portion of the population of the village of Ecseny in Somogy County, Hungary, was expelled from their homeland. This was the result of Protocol XIII of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 calling for "the orderly and humane transfer of German populations now living in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary."

The families involved were descendants of German settlers who began to arrive in what would become the village of Ecseny as early as 1754. They formed an Evangelical Lutheran congregation at the outset that would survive as an underground movement until the...

The isolation the Children of the Danube experienced from the upheavals of history in the rest of Europe would no longer hold true in the second half of the 19th Century and beyond. At the outset, Emperor Francis Joseph's attempts to preserve the position of the House of Habsburg in the face of the rising power of Prussia among the German states would inevitably lead to a disastrous war. Austria's defeat set the stage for the rise of the German Empire and the struggle for supremacy in Europe among the major powers resulting in the catastrophic wars of the next century which would destroy...

On April 6, 1948, a significant portion of the population of the village of Ecseny in Somogy County, Hungary, was expelled from their homeland. This was the result of Protocol XIII of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 calling for "the orderly and humane transfer of German populations now living in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary."

The families involved were descendants of German settlers who began to arrive in what would become the village of Ecseny as early as 1754. They formed an Evangelical Lutheran congregation at the outset that would survive as an underground movement until the...