12 Facts About Volga Germans

Many Catholic Volga Germans chose South America as their new homeland because the nations shared their religion.

Additionally, many of the Volga Germans who had previously settled in Brazil later went to settle in Argentina, due to the difficulties of planting wheat in Brazil, among other reasons.

Deportation of the Volga Germans was the Soviet forced transfer of the whole of the Volga German population from the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to Gulag concentration camps of forced labor located in Siberia, Kazakhstan and even in arctic locations.

All the ethnic German communities in the Soviet Union, the Volga Germans represented the single largest group expelled from their historical homeland.

Volga Germans allocated NKVD and Red Army troops to carry out the transfer.

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The Volga Germans were to be sent to various oblasts in Siberia, Kazakhstan and others, beginning on September 3, and ending on September 20, 1941.

The deported and enslaved Volga Germans coined this phrase, whereas Soviet documents only referred to "labor obligations" or "labor regulations.

Volga Germans never returned to the Volga region in their old numbers.

At the time, around 936, 000 ethnic Volga Germans were living in Kazakhstan, as the republic's third-largest ethnic group.

Since the late 1980s and the fall of the Soviet Union, some ethnic Volga Germans have returned in small numbers to Engels, but many more emigrated permanently to Germany.

Greatest number of Volga Germans emigrated from Hesse and the Palatinate, and spoke Hessian and Palatine Rhine Franconian dialects to which the colonists from other regions, and even from other countries like Sweden, assimilated.

Volga Germans only borrowed a few but anecdotal Russian words, like Erbus, which they carried with them on their subsequent moves to North America and Argentina.