Overview
Diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Kazakhstan were established in 1991 after Kazakhstan gained independence from the Soviet Union . [1] Ethnic Germans and ethnic Kazakhs have a shared history dating back to World War II when ethnic Germans living in the Volga region of Russia were relocated or imprisoned in the eastern steppe of the Soviet Union in what is now the territory of Kazakhstan. [2] At the collapse of the Soviet Union, about one million ethnic Germans lived in Kazakhstan. [3] Read More…