Demographic estimates of the flight and expulsion of Germans have been derived by either the compilation of registered dead and missing persons or by a comparison of pre-war and post-war population da
German expellees in Northwestern Germany, 1948
Covered wagon, Brunswick National Museum
Refugee camp in Bavaria, 31 December 1944
German children at the refugee camp, Western Germany, 31 December 1944
Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union was considered by the Soviet Union to be part of German war reparations for the damage inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union during the Axis-Soviet
The mother of a prisoner thanks Konrad Adenauer upon his return from Moscow, September 14, 1955. Adenauer had succeeded in concluding negotiations about the release to Germany, by the end of the year, of 15,000 German civilians and prisoners of war, more than a decade after the war with Germany had ended on May 8, 1945.
February, 1958. German scientists repatriated from Sukhumi.
August 1947, German women and girls released from Soviet captivity wait in 14 days of quarantine at the Polte Nord returnee camp, before finally going home.
A group of recently released German POWs waiting to be sent back home, before their repatriation in 1949