From 1954 to 1961 the Schieder commission issued five reports on the flight and expulsions. The head of the commission Theodor Schieder was a rehabilitated former Nazi party member who was involved in the preparation of the Nazi Generalplan Ost to colonize eastern Europe. The commission estimated a total death toll of about 2.3 million civilians including 2 million east of the Oder Neisse line.
Hmm, maybe some bias in those numbers.
It also seems that the agreed upon number more is 500,000-600,000 according to historians. The inflated numbers are basically black book style. Possibly rolling military deaths into civilian deaths and counting any German people who stayed as deaths when they really just stayed.
There was also the issue that the Nazi party had wide support in the eastern territories and keeping them there would have essentially given the west a 5 million strong nazi stay behind army (of which a good amount were families of soldiers fighting there or just straight up colonizers who moved there for libenstraum reasons)
Hmm, maybe some bias in those numbers.
It also seems that the agreed upon number more is 500,000-600,000 according to historians. The inflated numbers are basically black book style. Possibly rolling military deaths into civilian deaths and counting any German people who stayed as deaths when they really just stayed.
There was also the issue that the Nazi party had wide support in the eastern territories and keeping them there would have essentially given the west a 5 million strong nazi stay behind army (of which a good amount were families of soldiers fighting there or just straight up colonizers who moved there for libenstraum reasons)