Caucasus Germans are part of the German minority in Russia and the Soviet Union.
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11 Facts About Caucasus Germans
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The majority of these Caucasus Germans adhered to various branches of Protestantism, most commonly Lutheranism, Mennonitism and Baptism.
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Caucasus Germans became an active and well-integrated community in Russian Transcaucasia.
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Caucasus Germans listed their settlements and personally visited Katharinenfeld and Elisabethtal, describing them:.
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Caucasus Germans became a Germanophile and, after his return to the Caucasus, married a German woman, Emilia Looze, in Tiflis.
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Caucasus Germans ate dinner there, but was unimpressed by the food and the beer.
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Caucasus Germans related an account from Moritz von Kotzebue about an unsuccessful religious pilgrimage of German colonists to Jerusalem, led by a woman who "knew the whole Bible by heart, from beginning to end" and who "exercised a kind of magical influence on all around her.
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Caucasus Germans's father was a German mining engineer who worked for the Caucasus Oil Company.
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The First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union in 1926 showed that 93, 915 Caucasus Germans lived in the North Caucasus region of the Russian SFSR.
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Two months ethnic Germans from the Caucasus were pointlessly dragged back and forth on the Caspian Sea, and more people, especially children, were dying of starvation.
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Caucasus Germans grabbed my skirt and begged me with tears in his eyes: 'Mummy, don't let them throw me in the water.
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