Original sentence: According to one argument, the purpose of expelling Germans from areas now belonging to other countries was to invalidate German territorial claims to the land.According to this line of reasoning, Germans were expelled to make housing available for Poles returning to Poland from western Poland, Germany and the USSR.After the end of the war, most of these people returned to Poland and needed housing and source of income in a country devastated by war, where housing stock especially in towns was destroyed on a scale unknown in Western countries (e.One justification offered for the expulsions is that the actual purpose of the policy was to punish the Germans for Germany's actions during World War II, including its expulsion of Poles from territories annexed to Nazi Germany; and at the same time to create ethnically homogeneous nation states that would not give rise to the kind of ethnic tensions that had preceded the war.The purported objective was to prevent a repetition of what happened in the Sudetenland where the Nazis based territorial claims based upon the large number of ethnic Germans living there
Edited sentence: According to one argument, the purpose of expelling Germans from areas now belonging to other countries was to invalidate German territorial claims to the annexed land.According to this line of reasoning, millions of Germans were expelled to make housing available for Poles returning to Poland from western Poland, Germany and the USSR.After the end of the war, most of these people returned to Poland and needed housing and source of income in a country devastated by war, where housing stock especially in towns was destroyed on a high scale (e.Millions of them died of starvation and frostbite.One justification offered for the expulsions is that the actual purpose of the policy was to punish the Germans for Germany's actions during World War II, including its expulsion of Poles from territories annexed to Nazi Germany.The expelled Germans were abandoned to impoverishment.The purported objective was to prevent a repetition of what happened in the Sudetenland where legitimate territorial claims were based upon the large number of ethnic Germans forced to live in an alien state.Thus, many Poles didn't behave and act better as Germans Nazis did