Prussian Expulsion Order Issued
- When
- 26 March 1885
- Where
- Prussian Ministry of Internal Affairs (seat not specified in sources)
Prussian authorities ordered the expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews holding Russian citizenship in March 1885, later extending it to Austrian citizens.
On 26 March 1885, the ministry of internal affairs of Prussia ordered its provincial authorities to expel abroad all ethnic Poles and Jews holding Russian citizenship. In July 1885, the expulsion order was extended to include Polish Austrian citizens also. More than 30,000 Poles who had immigrated to Prussia from the Polish regions of the Russian Empire and Austria and did not obtain a German citizenship, were deported back to their country of origin.
Sources
- Prussian deportations Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-05
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