flight and expulsion of Germans
Also known as ethnic cleansing of Germans
exodus & deportation during and after the end of the Second World War from 1945 to 1950
Key facts
- Date
- 1944–1950
- Location
- Eastern and Central Europe
- Motive
- Anti-German sentiment Counter-insurgency
- Perpetrator
- Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin
- Deaths
- 500,000 to 2.5 million
- Displaced
- 12 million to 14.6 million
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- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1985-021-09, Flüchtlinge.jpg
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- Commons category
- Refugees of World War II in Germany
- start time
- 1944-00-00
- end time
- 1950-00-00
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