Around 12,000 people who were forced to flee their homes in former East Germany in 1952 and 1961 by Communist authorities could receive compensation from the German government. Marie-Luise Troebs, who was evicted from her home in Geisa in 1961, is leading a campaign for reparations of €20,000 each for the victims. The authorities justified the displacements by saying they needed to make way for infrastructure along the border and remove people considered a threat to order and security in the border area. Germany has been compensating victims of injustices committed under the former East German government since 1992, but so far it doesn't cover people who were forcibly displaced.

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