ethnic Germans

Teutonic heritage population

Ethnic Germans are people of German ancestry or cultural heritage, regardless of citizenship or current residence.

The term distinguishes ancestry from nationality—ethnic Germans may live in Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, or the Americas while retaining German language, customs, or identity.

Historically significant in discussions of World War II displacement and postwar migration: Millions of ethnic Germans were expelled from Eastern Europe after 1945.

Related

BavariaSoutheastern German state
GermanCentral European language
German heritageRoots from Deutschland
minoritySmaller part of whole
expulsionForced permanent removal

citizenship laws · dual citizenship · right of return · displaced · repatriation · refugee status · folk costumes · Pennsylvania Dutch · migration · Iron Curtain · Alsace · historical treaties · Transylvania · resettlement · diaspora · Danube · motherland · ancestry

Opposites

ethnic identity

ethnic Germansethnic Russians

Slavic nationality group

non-Germans · ethnic minorities · Roma

citizenship vs. ethnicity

ethnic Germansguest workers

Temporary foreign employees

asylum seekers · foreign workers · newcomers

indigenous vs. settler/diaspora status

ethnic Germansindigenous peoples

Original inhabitants of lands

native populations · First Nations · Baltic Germans

Family

ethnic, ethnicity, Germanic

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