Why are LOADS of Germans in Kazakhstan?

Germans as a cultural group settled further to the east than many think. And in this video, you will see one such group and the tragic story of their being forced even further east than they could have imagined - Kazakhstan, in central Asia, and for many of them, their remarkable return to the West. This shows that between Germany and Kazakhstan, and Russia, and all the lands in between, there is great mixture of European cultures we often take for granted.

00:00 Beginning
00:43 Imperial Russia
02:46 Communist nutters
04:08 The Moral
04:54 War and After
08:37 Freedom
10:12 Most Kazakhs
11:59 Why?

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