Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)
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During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and Volksdeutsche fled or were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and the former German provinces of Silesia, Pomerania, and East Prussia, which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union. In 1957, Walter Schlesinger discussed reasons for these actions, which reversed the effects of German eastward colonization and expansion: he concluded, "it was a devastating result of twelve years of National Socialist Eastern Policy."
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See also
- Generalplan Ost
- Dutch annexation of German territory after World War II
- Expulsion of Poles by Germany
- Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany
- German reparations for World War II
- Istrian-Dalmatian exodus
- Operation Paperclip
- Organised persecution of ethnic Germans
- Population transfer in the Soviet Union
- Pursuit of Nazi collaborators
- Treaty of Zgorzelec
- Victor Gollancz
- War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II
- World War II evacuation and expulsion
- Deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II
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