It is estimated that 2 1/2 million ethnic German refugees died, most from starvation.
Whose estimate is this?
If you can, clean up these stubs and figure out where they should go...right now they're either out of place or confusingly written
- See Silent Ethnic Cleansing for a description of the modern political...
- The Volksdeutschen had lived in lands, that were once part of the Holy Roman Empire of Germany. They came from lands, which at times were ruled by German or Holy Roman Empire connected rulers, were given German Rights as German settlers. In the case of Bohemia-Germans, they lived in a land for 1200 years part of the Holy Roman Empire and in earlier years German lands.
- The Bohemia-Germans (later known as Sudeten-Germans) and the people of parts of Silesia, Posen-West Prussia, formerly German citizens had since 1919 lived in a newly created "Polish Corridor" and millions were already chased out by brutal suppression from Polish and Czech Slavs between 1919 and 1939.
Anyone who wants to redirect this to Diaspora studies shouldn't unless they can present a convincing argument for doing so. Anyone who simply wants to delete stuff they find confusing should instead point out what they find confusing first.
Please. Work cooperatively and respectfully. --TheCunctator
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