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Demographic estimates of the flight and expulsion of Germans

Ingo Haar who is currently on the faculty of the University of Vienna said on 14 November 2006 in Deutschlandfunk that about 500,000 to 600,000 victims are realistic, based on a German governmental studies initiated in the 1960s.

The Russian scholar Pavel Polian in 2001 published an account of the deportations during the Soviet era, Against Their Will, Polian's study detailed the Soviet statistics on the employment of German civilian labor during the Stalin era.

The German historian Ingo Haar maintains that the figure of 473,000 confirmed dead provides realistic view of the total losses due to the flight and expulsions.

Ingo Haar maintains that the statistical basis of the data used by the Centre Against Expulsions is empirically unsound.

The German historian Ingo Haar believes that civilian losses in the expulsions have been overstated in Germany for decades for political reasons.



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