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The Federation of Expellees or Bund der Vertriebenen (BdV) is a non-profit organization formed on 27 October 1957 to represent the interests of German nationals of all ethnicities and foreign ethnic Germans (usually naturalised as German nationals after 1949) who either fled their homes in parts of Central and Eastern Europe, or were forcibly expelled following World War II, and their families. Since 2014 the president of the Federation has been Bernd Fabritius, a Christian Social Union in Bavaria politician. ==Historical background== (詳細はethnic Germans fled or were expelled from parts of Central and Eastern Europe, including the former eastern territories of Germany (parts of present-day Poland), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia (mostly from the Vojvodina region), the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia (formerly the northern part of East Prussia), Lithuania, Romania and other East European countries. The Federation of Expellees was formed on 27 October 1957. Before its founding, the ''Bund der Heimatvertriebenen'' (League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights), formed in 1950, represented the interests of displaced German expellees. From 1959 to 1964, the first president of the Federation was Hans Krüger, a former Nazi judge and activist.〔dw-world.de: (League of German Expellees Unwilling to Investigate Own Past ), 14 August 2006.〕 After the war Krüger was a West German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), was a Member of Parliament from 1957 to 1965, served as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims for 4 months in 1963-64 in the First Cabinet of Ludwig Erhard. He stepped down from cabinet and other positions in 1964 amid controversy about his war-time background. Krüger was succeeded as president by Wenzel Jaksch in 1964 who held the position until his untimely death in 1966.〔(Biography at spd-wiesbaden.de ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Federation of Expellees」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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