 Some of them were forcibly settled by the Nazis in the German-occupied Poland, and had to move again in 1944–1945.The people affected by the resettlement were not persecuted, but they were given no choice to stay or live, and had to change their entire livelihood within weeks or even days.Deportations of locals on grounds of belonging to the intelligentsia or kulak classes, or of having anti-Soviet nationalist ideas occurred throughout 1940-41 and 1944–1951.