The behavior of Soviet occupation troops was in many cases discretionary, in clear contradiction with the populist commitments of USSR politicians and the rules of international law. In this context, the deportation of working-class ethnic Germans from Romania to the USSR took place. The Soviet occupier made this decision and brought it to the attention of the Romanian government, together with the instructions for its application. The motivation for the deportation was to participate in the reconstruction and recovery of the damage committed by the German army on Soviet territory. The decision was implemented against the protests of the National Liberal Party president and the Memoir of King Mihai I of Romania, addressed to the president of the USA. In 1945, 1581 people, 817 men and 765 women were deported from Făgăraș County. Men aged between 17 and 45 and women aged 18-30 excepting disabled and women with children under one year of age, were considered fit for work. Everywhere, the Soviet authorities behaved abusively and hostilely, sometimes even fiercely. Armed troops blocked the exits from the villages and those on the lists were taken from their homes. The ethnic Germans were kept in the cold for a few days in an open-air camp in Făgăraș, until the train cars arrived to take them to the USSR. Many of them died during transport or in labor camps. Their deportation was the result of a collective incrimination and an unjust punishment for a guilt that belonged to others. Empty households were looted and minor children left alone at home were taken to the orphanage. Some of the deportees' homes were expropriated and nationalized. In the 1950s, some of those who survived the deportation received their homes back, as part of propaganda actions of the newly installed regime, presented as beneficent.
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