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Gerhard Schulz, expelled from the Mark Brandenburg in 1945 as a child
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Laila Sieber / DER SPIEGEL
Gerhard Schulz was
able to save a photo.
His father can be seen next to a bicycle on the worn paper in black and white.
Serin Taher
has kept a USB stick with pictures of children.
An Afghan
pendant
reminds
Bobby Rafiq of
the country he came from, and
a side table takes on this role
in
Herbert Stauber's
family.
Arieta Ugljanin
only has memories.
Once a month the postman in Kosovo brought an envelope for the grandmother, she says.
"With her pension. And every time my grandma slipped me a note."
Five stories from eight decades in Germany.
Gerhard Schulz, Serin Taher, Bobby Rafiq, Herbert Stauber and Arieta Ugljanin have been expelled or fled - five of the more than twenty million people who have sought protection from dictatorships, bombs, religious fanatics and political persecution here since World War II.
Almost 80 million people around the world are currently on the run.
The number has never been higher.
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