For Richard Feb Unfortunately Haar   reviewed the book this is not about explsion  it is about ethnic cleanings before  done by Germans and scientists who supported this ideas Overmans book  Deutsche militrische Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg Is strictly about German military losses nothing more  nothing there about expulsion  I confess that I dont know what Nitschke has to say on this subject  She says Of around  million Germans within the lands of postwar Poland in  six million fled or were evacuated  million were expelled one million were verified as Poles  remained in Poland as a German minority and up to  million died p  Thus that means TOTAL  millions deaths  She also says Though estimates of the dead range widely as many as a million Germans perished during flight and expulsion from Poland in   It means in years     Take for consideration that so call wild expulsion started on May  and the  and first part of  was actually the flight  Next she says In the long fourth chapter Nitschke turns to the expulsions which came in three waves During a period of wild expulsions from May to July  the Polish military drove up to  Germans across Polands new western border  The second wave of expulsions came after the Potsdam conference but before the organized transfer of remaining Germans began in early  From August to December  Poles expelled close to  more Germans in poorly organized transports  The final phase involved the transfer of  million Germans in a process coordinated with British and Soviet authorities in occupied Germany in  and