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by cafard 4722 days ago
"The real surprise is that any Germans whatsoever managed to survive the post-war forced expulsions and near-genocidal 1,200 calorie per day rations."

And yet they did, there's a bunch of them last time I looked. The expulsions were in the east, chiefly East Prussia and Silesia, or of Volksdeutsch from the former Hapsburg lands.