Original sentence: The president of the Federation of Expellees, Erika Steinbach, relying on a work by Heinz Nawratil has made the same argument, claiming that the lower numbers represent only "direct deaths due to expulsions" while the higher numbers also include deaths due indirect causes of expulsions; however, Ingo Haar explicitly rejects this "mistaken interpretation" of the estimates and points out that the deaths due to disease, hunger and other conditions are already included in the lower numbers
Edited sentence: The president of the Federation of Expellees, Erika Steinbach, relying on a work by an author associated with the extreme far-right, Heinz Nawratil has made the same argument, claiming that the lower numbers represent only "direct deaths due to expulsions" while the higher numbers also include deaths due indirect causes of expulsions; however, Ingo Haar explicitly rejects this "mistaken interpretation" of the estimates and points out that the deaths due to disease, hunger and other conditions are already included in the lower numbers