During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Reichsdeutsche and Volksdeutsche fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia,
German expellees, 1946
German refugees moving westwards in 1945
Karl Hermann Frank, Secretary of State and Higher SS and Police Leader in Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (right) was born in Carlsbad, Austria-Hungary (present-day Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic).
Adolf Hitler being welcomed by a crowd in Sudetenland, where the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party gained 88% of ethnic-German votes in May 1938
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