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  2. Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950) - Wikipedia

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    During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and Volksdeutsche fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and from the former German provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, East Prussia, and the eastern parts of Brandenburg and Pomerania (Hinterpommern), which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union.

  3. German diaspora - Wikipedia

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    After World War II, large numbers of Germans emigrated to Australia to escape war-torn Europe. New Zealand has received modest, but steady, ethnic German immigration from the mid-19th century. Today the number of New Zealanders with German ancestry is estimated to be approximately 200,000 (5% of the population).

  4. Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after ...

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    During World War II, expulsions were initiated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland. The Germans deported 2.478 million Polish citizens from the Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany , [ 30 ] murdered 1.8 to 2.77 million ethnic Poles, [ 31 ] another 2.7 to 3 million Polish Jews and resettled 1.3 million ethnic Germans in their place. [ 32 ]

  5. German Americans - Wikipedia

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    After 1970, the anti-German sentiment aroused by World War II faded away. [121] Today, German Americans who immigrated after World War II share the same characteristics as any other Western European immigrant group in the U.S. [122] U.S. Ancestries by County, Germany in light blue, as of 2000 census

  6. Emigration from the Eastern Bloc - Wikipedia

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    By 1960 the combination of World War II and the massive emigration westward left East Germany with only 61% of its population of working age, compared to 70.5% before the war. [67] The loss was disproportionately heavy among professionals—engineers, technicians, physicians, teachers, lawyers and skilled workers. [67]

  7. Immigration to Germany - Wikipedia

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    1.2 After World War II until reunification (1945–1990) 1.2.1 Forced emigration of ethnic Germans from eastern and central Europe. ... Immigration to Germany, ...

  8. German Expellees - Wikipedia

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    The German Expellees or Heimatvertriebene (German: [ˈhaɪmaːt.fɐˌtʁiːbənə] ⓘ, "homeland expellees") are 12–16 million German citizens (regardless of ethnicity) and ethnic Germans (regardless of citizenship) who fled or were expelled after World War II from parts of Germany annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union and from other ...

  9. Emigration from Poland to Germany after World War II

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    In addition to former German citizens, their descendants and family members (usually from the marriage of an autochthon and non-autochthon) and other Polish citizens also emigrated to Germany after World War II in numbers difficult to estimate. During the 1980s, about 300,000 Poles left Poland (usually illegally) and settled in Western Germany.