Bryan Pinkall's Doctoral Recital - The Volga Germans
Germans from Russia: Wolgaheimat Legacy
Ethnic Cleansing of Volga Germans by the Soviet Union, Part I
Russia's Volga Germans
98-year-old Volga German from Russia - Part 1: On learning Russian language
Volga-Germans mini-documentary
Volga-German Question Time!
Russian Most Prettiest Pedestrian Street with German Castle. Saratov the Jewel on Volga River
Volga German village of Seewald - 2007
James Mayfield speaks on ethnic cleansing of the Volga Germans of USSR (Part 2/3)
Russlanddeutsche Scherzreime - Volga germans quips
James Mayfield speaks on ethnic cleansing of the Volga Germans of USSR (Part 3/3)
6th Army in Stalingrad - Song of Volga
Religious singing by Lutheran Volga Germans in Russia - 2008
Bryan Pinkall's Doctoral Recital - The Volga Germans
Germans from Russia: Wolgaheimat Legacy
Ethnic Cleansing of Volga Germans by the Soviet Union, Part I
Russia's Volga Germans
98-year-old Volga German from Russia - Part 1: On learning Russian language
Volga-Germans mini-documentary
Volga-German Question Time!
Russian Most Prettiest Pedestrian Street with German Castle. Saratov the Jewel on Volga River
Volga German village of Seewald - 2007
James Mayfield speaks on ethnic cleansing of the Volga Germans of USSR (Part 2/3)
Russlanddeutsche Scherzreime - Volga germans quips
James Mayfield speaks on ethnic cleansing of the Volga Germans of USSR (Part 3/3)
6th Army in Stalingrad - Song of Volga
Religious singing by Lutheran Volga Germans in Russia - 2008
Volga German village of Seewald - 2013
Three Volga German Songs - No. 2 Soldatentod
Zweifel Lissje - Volga German Music at the AHSGR Convention in 2008
98-year-old Volga German from Russia - Part 2: On Deportation in 1941
Volga german waltz "Mei' Mother backt Kreppel"
Volga german polka "Ich und du"
Argentinian Tango in Volga german Hackbrett (Hammered Dulcimer)
Colin Sloan - Volga German Book Launch on Wednesday 25th September 2013
"Neujahrswinsche" - Volga German reciting the New Year´s Wishes plus childhood memories of Russia
Volga German tune - 1
Volga German Lutheran church in Walter, Russia
Volga Around Europe - Day 22 - Barcelona - DYD Lowrider Store - Interview
Russian Germans in Argentina
Rammstein - Rock on Volga festival ,full concert. (Multicam by VinZ)
GAZ Volga in German AutoVIDy
Volga Around Europe - Day 28 - Frankfurt (Germany) - Tampere (Suomi) - St.Petersburg (Russia)
Volga Tumbler, Wolgaer Positurtümmler, Lipsia-Schau Leipzig
Volga Around Europe - Day 27 - Strasburg (France) - Frankfurt (Germany)
German-Russian listens to "Schicksal" recorded in Kansas #3
The Great Battle on the Volga (Stalingrad)
Limp Bizkit - Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle) [Live in Rock over the Volga 2012 - Pro-Shot] HD
EGO GET YOUR GUN - Volga [Perception 5/5]
The Kraining Lifeline 1850-2010
Volga River in Dubna
Volga Dnepr [RA-82079] Antonov An 124-100 ► Close Up View ► ILA 2014 [HD]
Rammstein - 04.08.1997 Hamburg, Germany VIVA TV Interview, Unedited, Tape 1
German-Russian Settlement in Siberia 90th Anniversary Fest
Germans of the Volga in Argentina: Window of Hope
The Great Battle Of the Volga [Stalingrad] - World War II. Documentary
The Volga on the Route to Astrakhan on board the Dimitri Fourmanov
documental Alemanes del Volga en Argentina
Volga Famine of the 1920's
PUEBLOS AUTÓCTONOS DE RUSIA : LOS ALEMANES DEL VOLGA
DVD1 - Trở lại Volga - phần 2/5 DVD 1/5
Colloque Volga (13) - Richat Sabitov - Construction de l'identité régionale du Tatarstan
49 Nizhnjaja Volga ispytanie sedobnoj reziny chast 1
Paradox Megacampaign - Alea Iacta Est - Part 40 - Volga Bulgaria, gone bad as the Gonabadids
Let's Play #2 - Fifa 12 [Fortuna Düsseldorf] [Deutsch] - Testspiel gg. Volga
VOLGA river CHALLENGE 2012 vol.II 1/8 ALL BATTLES
Battle on the Volga pt 3
R.U.S.E. - Historical Battles: Battle of Stalingrad
WW2: How the Germans lost the Battle of Stalingrad
Los Waigandt - Alemanes (1984) -disco entero-
LOOKING FOR ELVIRA
Ethnic Germans: A Forgotten Genocide
CoopCast Show #15 - 2012 National Young Bird Show
German Shepherd Volga Starodjurdjevacka
How Do You Inspire Yourself?
GAZ Volga in German AutoVIDy
Colin Sloan-Volga German thanks and introductions.
Ethnic Cleansing of Volga Germans by the Soviet Union, Part II
Ethnic Cleansing of Volga Germans by the Soviet Union, Part III
John Stang - Volga-German History in Kansas
Volga-German Question Time
ALEMANES DEL VOLGA EN ARGENTINA[Material de Encuentro]
Alemanes del Volga (Crespo - Entre Ríos - Argentina[Encuentro] Pequeños universos, )
Three Volga German Songs by John Mueter No. 3 "Der Zecher"
The Volga Germans (German: Wolgadeutsche or Russlanddeutsche, Russian: Поволжские немцы, Povolzhskie nemtsy) were ethnic Germans living along the River Volga in the region of southeastrn European Russia around Saratov and to the south. Recruited as immigrants to Russia in the 18th century, they were allowed to maintain German culture, language, traditions and churches: Lutherans, Reformed, Roman Catholics, and Mennonites (Russian Mennonites). In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many Volga Germans emigrated to the Midwestern United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and other countries.
Nazi Germany rose in part on a pan-German appeal, claiming interests in lands where ethnic Germans had been long settled. After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 during World War II, the Soviet government considered the Volga Germans potential collaborators and transported them wholesale to labour camps, where many died. After the war, it expelled some ethnic Germans to the West. In the late 1980s, many of the remaining ethnic Germans moved from the Soviet Union to Germany.
The Germans (Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages. Legally, Germans are citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Of approximately 100 million native speakers of German in the world, about 66–75 million consider themselves Germans. There are an additional 80 million people of German ancestry mainly in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Argentina, France, Russia, Chile, Poland, Australia and Romania who most likely are not native speakers of German. Thus, the total number of Germans worldwide lies between 66 and 160 million, depending on the criteria applied (native speakers, single-ancestry ethnic Germans, partial German ancestry, etc.).
Today, peoples from countries with a German-speaking majority or significant German-speaking population groups other than Germany, such as Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg, have developed their own national identity and usually do not refer to themselves as "Germans" in a modern context.
Germans from Russia refers to the large numbers of ethnic Germans who emigrated from the Russian Empire, peaking in the late 19th century. The upper Great Plains in the United States and southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan have large areas populated primarily of descendants of Germans from Russia. Argentina, Brazil and other countries have smaller numbers of Germans from Russia.
Their mother tongue was High German and Low German, despite their having lived in Russia for multiple generations. The Germans in Russia frequently lived in ethnic German communities, where they maintained German-language schools and German churches. Many of the Germans lived in the lower Volga River valley (they were also called Volga Germans) and the Crimean Peninsula/Black Sea region. The smaller villages were often settled by colonists of a common religion, who had come from the same area, so one town might be all Catholic, or all Lutheran, for instance; the people often settled together from the same region of Germany and thus spoke the same German dialect. Also included were Germans of the Baptist and Mennonite faiths, seeking religious freedom.