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  • Expulsion is one of words used to describe expulsions of mostly German and Polish popuations that followed World War II, indicating condemnation of the events. Alternative indicating neutral to apologetic stance is population transfer, on the other hand stronger detest is can be expressed by using a modern term ethical cleansing.

  • Expulsion was a euphemism for genocide in World War II; The Nazis used this term to describe the forced deportation of Jews and other victims to death camps during the Holocaust.

  • Expulsion, in the Book of Genesis, refers to the decree of expulsion from the Garden of Eden issued by God against Adam and Eve after they ate from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge. However, the expulsion was not the consequence of eating the forbidden fruit. They were expelled from the Garden of Eden for the reason that, as says the Bible text, "He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live for ever." (Genesis 3:22)

  • Expulsion is in football (soccer) used as a reference to a player being sent off the playing field, i.e. when given the red card.

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Vertreibung | Expulsion | Németek kitelepítése | Eksklusjon | Изгнание

 

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