Truth or Conjecture Author:Stamoos;aw Scjo, otzed Nazi authorities compel everybody to leave. The evacuation turned into flight n panic along snowbound, overcrowded roads in the immediate vicinity of the front. Exact detemination of the losses suffered by the German population as a result is impossible. Official west German publications fabricate fantastic figures of anything up to 3.2 milli... more »on killed. All these losses are dubbed vertreibungsverluste, losses due to expulsion, and are claimed to have been incurred after the territories along the Oder and the Baltic were retured to Poland. Careful analysis of the available statistical material explodes this myth, which is part and parcel of the West German propaganda of hatred and revenge.« less