In 1949, a politician named Paul Wagner was responsible for the passage of a resolution calling for a Day of the Homeland in Goettingen — a university city in Lower Saxony. The following year, a proclamation that honors the Charter of the German Expellees was introduced at Stuttgart Castle and this would become an important event that helped to create Day of the Homeland across Germany. 

During World War II, approximately 15-million ethnic Germans were expelled or forced to leave their homes in Central and Eastern Europe. Just one of the sad legacies of the Nazi Era. #OccasionalDigest #Germany