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“We’re not Russians! Never let anyone label us that way. Just because a chicken lays an egg in an oven, that doesn’t make the egg a biscuit.” I remember hearing those words as a child. My mother went ...

The American Historical Society of Germans from Russia was founded in 1968, headquartered in Colorado. It relocated to Lincoln in 1973. On Feb. 4, 1977, the Panhandle chapter was chartered, providing ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Of the ninety thousand Germans that went into Soviet captivity, fewer than six thousand would live to see their homeland again, and those didn’t come until the ...