Erika Steinbach (born July 25, 1943 in Rumia, Poland then occupied by Nazi Germany) is a German politician (CDU). She is a daughter of a Nazi Officer who was stationed in occcupied Poland during WWII. She is now a member of the Bundestag (since 1990) and president of the Bund der Vertriebenen (since 1998), although some does not consider her an expellee herself, as she is the daughter of a Luftwaffe officer who was only stationed in Rahmel during the war.
One of her aims is to build a monumental center against force migration in Berlin, devoted to the faith of Germans after the war and other victims of ethnic cleansing. She is a representive of the newly founded foundation Center against forced migrations (Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen). This iniatiative was unanonimously condemned by Polish and Czech politicians, because it is allegedly aimed at rewriting history of WW2 to show Germans as victims and Poles and Czech as perpetrators.
Recently, Erika Steinbach in the name of Heimatvertriebene sued German journalist Gabriele Lesser for publishing articles explaining Polish point of view to German public. The questioned article was published Sep 19th 2003 in the daily Kieler Nachrichten.