For nearly 50 years, the fate of the millions of ethnic Germans rounded up and expelled by the victorious Communists from the eastern provinces of the Reich and western Poland at the end of World War II has been passed over in silence by most of the rest of the world.
Little distinction was drawn between members of Hitler's armed SS legions and ordinary Germans whose families had lived for centuries in places like Silesia, West Prussia and Pomerania that were wrested from German control by the wartime Allies in 1945.
About seven million fled Communist retribution or were shipped out in cattle cars, and an estimated two million perished.
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