Original sentence: Around 100,000 Germans fled before the Red Army, but Romania did not conduct the expulsion of Germans as in neighboring countries at war's end.Due to this emigration from Romania the population of Transylvanian Saxons is dwindling.However, more than 80,000 Saxons were arrested by the Soviet Army and sent to labour camps in Siberia for alleged cooperation with Germany.Since the fall of the Eastern Bloc in 1989, numerous Germans have emigrated to Germany due to being considered Auslandsdeutsche, or "foreign Germans", by the German government; many are therefore allowed to enter Germany and become German citizens.When Romania signed a peace treaty with the Soviets in 1944, the German military began withdrawing the Saxons from Transylvania; this operation was most thorough with the Saxons of the Nösnerland
Edited sentence: 54,000 Transylvanian Saxons joined the Waffen-SS.After the Coup d'Etat by King Michael II against Marshall Antonescu, Romania signed a peace treaty with the Soviets in 1944.Around 100,000 Germans fled before the Red Army, though a number of them returned.Due to this emigration from Romania the population of Transylvanian Saxons is rapidly dwindling.During the 1950s political rights were restored and property was partially returned.During this period the German military began withdrawing the Saxons from Transylvania; this operation was most thorough with the Saxons of the Nösnerland.However, approximately 75,000 Saxons were deported by the Soviet Army to labour camps in Siberia in order to rebuild the war-tattered Soviet Union.Romania did not, however, conduct the expulsion of Germans as in neighboring countries at the end of the war.Since the fall of the Eastern Bloc in 1989, a great number of Germans have emigrated to Germany so-called Auslandsdeutsche, or "foreign Germans", though emigration had already begun in the 1950s and 1960s as part of the so-called Familienzusammenfuehrung (bringing families together); many are therefore allowed to enter Germany and become German citizens.The last forced labourers returned to Romania and/or Germany in late 1949.There are probably between 30,000 and 90,000 Saxons left in Romania.This trend, however, only represented a temporary occurence