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*{{cite book|title=Death by government|authorlink=Rudolph Joseph Rummel|first=Rudolph Joseph|last=Rummel|edition=6|publisher=Transaction Publishers|year=1997|isbn=1560009276|url=http://www.google.de/books?id=N1j1QdPMockC&pg=PA305|accessdate=2009-08-27|page=305}} |
*{{cite book|title=Death by government|authorlink=Rudolph Joseph Rummel|first=Rudolph Joseph|last=Rummel|edition=6|publisher=Transaction Publishers|year=1997|isbn=1560009276|url=http://www.google.de/books?id=N1j1QdPMockC&pg=PA305|accessdate=2009-08-27|page=305}} |
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*{{cite book|title=Ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe|first1=Steven Béla|last1=Várdy|first2=T. Hunt|last2=Tooley|first3=Ágnes Huszár|last3=Várdy|publisher=Social Science Monographs|year=2003|isbn=0880339950|page=239}} "the expulsion of the Germans constitutes the largest mass transfer of a population in history" |
*{{cite book|title=Ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe|first1=Steven Béla|last1=Várdy|first2=T. Hunt|last2=Tooley|first3=Ágnes Huszár|last3=Várdy|publisher=Social Science Monographs|year=2003|isbn=0880339950|page=239}} "the expulsion of the Germans constitutes the largest mass transfer of a population in history" |
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</ref> and the largest of several [[World War II evacuation and expulsion|post-war expulsions]] in [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]] which displaced a total of about twenty million people.<ref name=Weber2/> |
</ref> and the largest of several [[World War II evacuation and expulsion|post-war expulsions]] in [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]] which displaced a total of about twenty million people.<ref name=Weber2/> |
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There is an ongoing debate as to the classification of the nature of the events which have been classified as either [[population transfer]],<ref>Expelling the Germans: British Opinion and Post-1945 Population Transfer in Context, Matthew Frank Oxford University Press, 2008 </ref><ref>Europe and German unification, |
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Renata Fritsch-Bournazel page 77, Berg Publishers 1992</ref>, [[ethnic cleansing]],<ref>*{{cite book|title=Jüdische Geschichte als allgemeine Geschichte|first1=Dan|last1=Diner|first2=Raphael|last2=Gross|first3=Yfaat|last3=Weiss|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|year=2006|isbn=3525362889|page=163}} |
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*{{cite book|title=Immigration and asylum: from 1900 to the present, Volume 3|first=Matthew J.|last=Gibney|authorlink=http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?gibney|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2005|isbn=1576077969|page=196}} |
*{{cite book|title=Immigration and asylum: from 1900 to the present, Volume 3|first=Matthew J.|last=Gibney|authorlink=http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?gibney|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2005|isbn=1576077969|page=196}} |
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*{{cite book|title=Redrawing nations: ethnic cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948. Harvard Cold War studies book series|editor1-first=Philipp|editor1-last=Ther|editor2-first=Ana|editor2-last=Siljak|first=Eagle|last=Glassheim|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2001|isbn=0742510948|page=197}} |
*{{cite book|title=Redrawing nations: ethnic cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948. Harvard Cold War studies book series|editor1-first=Philipp|editor1-last=Ther|editor2-first=Ana|editor2-last=Siljak|first=Eagle|last=Glassheim|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2001|isbn=0742510948|page=197}} |
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*{{cite book|title=Expelling the Germans: British opinion and post-1945 population transfer in context. Oxford historical monographs|firt=Matthew James|last=Frank|publisher=[[Oxford University]] Press|year=2008|isbn=0199233640|page=5}}</ref> [[democide]]<ref name=Rummel305>{{cite book|title=Death by government|authorlink=Rudolph Joseph Rummel|first=Rudolph Joseph|last=Rummel|edition=6|publisher=Transaction Publishers|year=1997|isbn=1560009276|url=http://www.google.de/books?id=N1j1QdPMockC&pg=PA305|accessdate=2009-08-27|page=305}}</ref> and [[genocide]].<ref>*{{cite book|title=What is genocide?|first=Martin|last=Shaw|authorlink=Martin Shaw (sociologist)|publisher=Polity|year=2007|isbn=0745631827|pages=56,60}} |
*{{cite book|title=Expelling the Germans: British opinion and post-1945 population transfer in context. Oxford historical monographs|firt=Matthew James|last=Frank|publisher=[[Oxford University]] Press|year=2008|isbn=0199233640|page=5}}</ref> [[democide]]<ref name=Rummel305>{{cite book|title=Death by government|authorlink=Rudolph Joseph Rummel|first=Rudolph Joseph|last=Rummel|edition=6|publisher=Transaction Publishers|year=1997|isbn=1560009276|url=http://www.google.de/books?id=N1j1QdPMockC&pg=PA305|accessdate=2009-08-27|page=305}}</ref> and [[genocide]].<ref>*{{cite book|title=What is genocide?|first=Martin|last=Shaw|authorlink=Martin Shaw (sociologist)|publisher=Polity|year=2007|isbn=0745631827|pages=56,60}} |
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*{{cite web|url=http://www.ermacora-institut.at/wDeutsch/dokumente/pdf/gutachten_ermacora_1991.pdf|title=Gutachten Ermacora 1991|first=Felix|last=Ermacora|authorlink=Felix Ermacora|format=pdf|year=1991}}</ref> |
*{{cite web|url=http://www.ermacora-institut.at/wDeutsch/dokumente/pdf/gutachten_ermacora_1991.pdf|title=Gutachten Ermacora 1991|first=Felix|last=Ermacora|authorlink=Felix Ermacora|format=pdf|year=1991}}</ref> |
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The area from which the German population was expelled comprised [[former eastern territories of Germany|pre-war German provinces]] transferred to [[People's Republic of Poland|Poland]] and the [[Soviet Union]] after the war ([[East Brandenburg]], [[East Prussia]] and most of [[Province of Pomerania|Pomerania]] and [[Province of Silesia|Silesia]]); [[Second Polish Republic|pre-war Polish areas]], during the war [[Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany|annexed]] or [[General Government|occupied]] by [[Nazi Germany]]; [[Czechoslovakia]], re-created from [[History of Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)|pre-war Czechoslovak]] areas [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia|occupied during the war]] and the [[Sudetenland]], [[Munich Agreement|annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938]]; [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], northern [[Yugoslavia]] (predominantly in the [[Vojvodina|Vojvodina region]]), and other states of [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]].<ref name=Kaiser409>{{cite book|title=Politics and war: European conflict from Philip II to Hitler|authorlink=David E. Kaiser|first=David E|last=Kaiser|edition=2|publisher=[[Harvard University]] Press|year=2000|isbn=0674002725|page=409}}</ref> The majority of the flights and expulsions occurred from the former eastern territories of Germany transferred to Poland and the [[Soviet Union]], and in post-war Czechoslovakia.<ref name=Kaiser409/> The expellees were taken in by the [[Allied Occupation Zones in Germany]] and [[Austria]]. |
The area from which the German population was expelled comprised [[former eastern territories of Germany|pre-war German provinces]] transferred to [[People's Republic of Poland|Poland]] and the [[Soviet Union]] after the war ([[East Brandenburg]], [[East Prussia]] and most of [[Province of Pomerania|Pomerania]] and [[Province of Silesia|Silesia]]); [[Second Polish Republic|pre-war Polish areas]], during the war [[Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany|annexed]] or [[General Government|occupied]] by [[Nazi Germany]]; [[Czechoslovakia]], re-created from [[History of Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)|pre-war Czechoslovak]] areas [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia|occupied during the war]] and the [[Sudetenland]], [[Munich Agreement|annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938]]; [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], northern [[Yugoslavia]] (predominantly in the [[Vojvodina|Vojvodina region]]), and other states of [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]].<ref name=Kaiser409>{{cite book|title=Politics and war: European conflict from Philip II to Hitler|authorlink=David E. Kaiser|first=David E|last=Kaiser|edition=2|publisher=[[Harvard University]] Press|year=2000|isbn=0674002725|page=409}}</ref> The majority of the flights and expulsions occurred from the former eastern territories of Germany transferred to Poland and the [[Soviet Union]], and in post-war Czechoslovakia.<ref name=Kaiser409/> The expellees were taken in by the [[Allied Occupation Zones in Germany]] and [[Austria]]. |
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