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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AHUK</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">1392-4095</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-4095</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
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    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">18_231-251_BURAUSKAITE</article-id>
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        <article-title>Nukentėjusieji dėl kilmės: Lietuvos etninių vokiečių tremtis 1945 m. | The Injured for the Origin: Deportation of Ethnic Germans from Lithuania in 1945</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="Author">
          <name>
            <surname>Burauskaitė</surname>
            <given-names>Teresė Birutė</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:birute.burauskaite@genocid.lt">birute.burauskaite@genocid.lt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AHUK_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
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        <aff id="j_AHUK_aff_000">The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania</aff>
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      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>18</volume>
      <fpage>231</fpage>
      <lpage>251</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>08</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>08</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Klaipėda University</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract>
        <p>The repressive politics of the Soviet Union between 1939-1941 and 1939-1958, which affected 1 in 10 Lithuanians, is well researched by Russian and Lithuanian researchers. The most important archival documents and research have been published. Few, however, know of the deportation from Lithuania to Tajikistan at the end of the Second World War of a small Lithuanian minority of German ancestry. In this article, the selection criteria and other circumstances that led to the deportation of this 908 person group, that were considered “enemies of the State” in 22-26 of April, 1945, is defined using the electronic database gathered at the Centre of the Research of Genocide and Resistance in Lithuania, documents from the KGB archive and diaries and memoirs of the deportees themselves. Comparisons are made between the treatment of “enemy nationals” of German, Japanese or Italian ancestry by the democratic allies – USA, Britain and Canada and totalitarian USSR.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>“enemy nationality”</kwd>
        <kwd>forced migration</kwd>
        <kwd>exile</kwd>
        <kwd>internees</kwd>
        <kwd>NKVD</kwd>
        <kwd>NKGB</kwd>
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