Deportation of Germans from Romania after World War II

The deportation of Germans from Romania after World War II, conducted on Soviet order early in 1945, uprooted about 70,000 of Romania's Germans to the USSR; at least 3,000 of the deportees died before release. The deportation was part of the Soviet plan for German war reparations in the form of forced labor, according to the 1944 secret Soviet Order 7161.