Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)
Population transfer during and after World War II
Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)
During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, from 1944-1950, about 12 million German citizens and ethnic Germans migrated from various Eastern and Central European countries into Allied-occupied Germany and Austria. The largest numbers came from former eastern territories of Germany surrendered to the Polish People's Republic and Soviet Union (about seven million), as well as from Czechoslovakia (about three million). Many also came from the pre-war Second Polish Republic, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and the Baltic states. The West German government estimated that 14.6 million Germans relocated, including a million ethnic Germans who had settled in territories conquered by Nazi Germany during World War II, ethnic German migrants to Germany after 1950, and the children born to expelled parents. The removals occurred in three overlapping phases, the first of which was the organized evacuation of ethnic Germans by the Nazi state in the face of the advancing Red Army...
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