Talk:Refugee ships
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The title of the page should be somehow changed, as the people fleeing Gdansk (then named Danzig) and nazi-occupied territories were not refugees according to the commonly known definition (see the "refugee" page of Wikipedia), i.e. they were not people who fled to a _foreign_ country to seek safety. Term "evacuation" is much better to describe the situation at that tragic time, as they were ordered to leave the occupied countries despite the fact whether they wanted to leave or not.
The historical fact that thousands (perhaps more than 15,000 altogether) German civilians and wounded soldiers were ruthlessly killed by Soviet submarines and aircraft should certainly find its place in Wikipedia for the people to remember the tragedy of WWII. However, we should be careful in not bringing any false implications or allusions in the definition. So, how can we change the title? I suggest "Tragedy of German evacuation in 1945".
