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10 years ago a Swiss German lady and I were talking about the world etc.
She stated that her mother was part of the Ostflucht.
When you search you tend to get this version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostflucht
A very brief version of an earlier migration. The events of 1945 to 1952 have all but been erased.
She said that the Prussian empire extended to Russia and that throughout Europe there were enclaves of Germanic people who essentially traded in other greater areas. Ukraine would have had such an area within its boundaries. however Many of the modern countries were actually just a loose assembly of city states , even in the 1930s.
After the war,Germanic people were singled out and persecuted across this region.Allegations of collaboration with Nazi Germany were regular and they were regularly beat up, spat upon, raped and humiliated.
There was a huge “ largely unrecorded effort “ to patriate them to Germany and Switzerland. I state patriate rather than repatriate them as they had never lived in these countries.
It’s also very hard to find anything on this as their seems to be a political silence in place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_eastern_territories_of_Germany
This article touches on it further down and tries to gloss over what may be the truth that as many as 16 million Germans were “ displaced” after WW11 but that others say the figure was less than 1 million.
Don't forget Poland was partitioned and disappeared: divided up between Russia, Austria and Prussia. Only restored / gained independence after WW1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland
Read that part of the reason Hitler invaded Poland was the slaughter of many ethnic Germans. There was a risk that the Prussian enclave to which the Danzing Corridor was not allowed by the Poles could suffer the same fate. Clearly this was to start the conflict, wonder who was responsible for stirring this up: accounts of neighbours who had happily co-existed for years suddenly turning into a cold blooded purge.