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The figure of 101,000 "unresolved cases" in Romania is included in the total German expulsion dead of 2 million which is often cited in historical literature. [116] 355,000 Germans remained in Romania in 1977. During the 1980s, many began to leave, with over 160,000 leaving in 1989 alone. By 2002, the number of ethnic Germans in Romania was 60,000.
In 1950 West German Government made a preliminary estimate of 3.0 million dead and missing whose fate needed to be clarified. [93] In 1953 the German scholar Gotthold Rhode made a demographic estimate of 3,140,000 total ethnic German dead in Central and Eastern Europe from 1939 to 1950.
The following studies were published by the West German government estimating expulsion deaths. In 1950 the West German government made a preliminary estimate of 3,000,000 German civilians missing in Eastern Europe (1.5 million from pre war Germany and 1.5 million ethnic Germans from East Europe) whose fate needed to be clarified. [136]
The estimates of 2.0 million deaths due to expulsions have been criticized by subsequent researchers. For example, according to the German historian Rüdiger Overmans it is only possible to establish the deaths of 500,000 individuals and there is nothing in German historiography which could explain the other 1.5 million deaths.
The Federation of Expellees (German: Bund der Vertriebenen, BdV) is the German non-governmental head organization of various organized groups of German refugees and expellees. The federation is committed to document the post- World War II flight and expulsion of Germans [ 1 ] as well as other forced displacements, and maintains an exhibition ...
The figure of 311,000 civilian deaths is included in the overall estimate of 2.2 million expulsion deaths that is often cited in historical literature. The West German search service issued its final report in 1965 detailing the losses of the German civilian population due to the flight and expulsions.
Flight and expulsion of Germans during and after World War II (demographic estimates) Background; 1944–50 flight and expulsion of Germans; German–Soviet population transfers; Potsdam Agreement; Wartime flight and evacuation; German evacuation; East Prussia; Post-war flight and expulsion; Czechoslovakia; Poland (incl. former German ...
Flight and expulsion of Germans during and after World War II (demographic estimates)Background; 1944–50 flight and expulsion of Germans; German–Soviet population transfers