1938, WW2 Propaganda Book, Russlanddeutsche suchen eine Heimat, First Edition

With WWI, the situation changed for many subjects of German descent. A period of oppression began. During the Soviet Era, repression intensified and politically and ethnically motivated purges followed, in which at least 52,000 Russian-Germans were convicted and shot between 1937 and 1938 alone due to the German Operation order. By the end of 1941, around 900,000 were deported to Central Asia and Siberia.