The Federal Expellee Law (Bundesvertriebenengesetz, BVFG) is a German federal law of May 19, 1953 which regulates the rights of German refugees from Central and Eastern Europe and defines who is considered expellees. The major force behind the law was the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights party. May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The expulsion of Germans after World War II was the mass deportation of people considered Germans (both Reichsdeutsche and Volksdeutsche) from Soviet-occupied areas outside the Soviet occupation zone of Germany, and is a major part of the German exodus from Eastern Europe after World War II. The process, which... The All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights (Gesamtdeutscher Block/Bund der Heimatvertriebenen und Entrechteten / GB/BHE) was founded in 1950 as BHE (Block der Heimatvertriebenen und Entrechteten, Bloc of Expellees and Deprived of Rights) and changed the name to GB/BHE in 1952. ...