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 milit rische verluste im zweiten weltkrieg is strictly about german military losses nothing more nothing there about expulsion i confess that i don't know what nitschke has to say on this subject she says of around million germans within the lands of post war 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 poland's 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