Editing Potsdam Agreement (section)

===Expulsions===
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{{main|Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)}}

In the course of the proceedings, and after the German state [[War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II|killed]] around 5-6 million Polish citizens during the war, [[Polish communists]] had begun to suppress the German population west of the Bóbr river to underline their demand for a border on the Lusatian Neisse. The Allied resolution on the "orderly transfer" of German population became the legitimation of the expulsion of Germans from the nebulous parts of [[Central Europe]], if they had not already fled from the advancing Red Army.

The expulsion of ethnic Germans by the Poles concerned, in addition to Germans within areas behind the 1937 Polish border in the West (such as in most of the old Prussian province of West Prussia), the territories placed "under Polish administration" pending a Final German Peace Treaty, i.e. southern East Prussia ([[Masuria]]), [[Farther Pomerania]], the [[New March]] region of the former [[Province of Brandenburg]], the districts of the ''Grenzmark'' [[Posen-West Prussia]], [[Lower Silesia]] and those parts of [[Upper Silesia]] that had remained with Germany after the 1921 [[Upper Silesia plebiscite]]. It further affected the German minority living within the territory of the former [[Second Polish Republic]] in [[Greater Poland]], eastern Upper Silesia, [[Chełmno Land]] and the [[Polish Corridor]] with Danzig.

The [[Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)|Germans in Czechoslovakia]] (34% of the population of the territory of what is now the Czech Republic), known as [[Sudeten Germans]] but also [[Carpathian Germans]], were expelled from the ''[[Sudetenland]]'' region where they formed a majority, from linguistic enclaves in central [[Bohemia]] and [[Moravia]], as well as from the city of [[Prague]].

Though the Potsdam Agreement referred only to Poland, Czechoslovakia and [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Hungary]], expulsions also occurred in [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]], where the [[Transylvanian Saxons]] were [[Deportation of Germans from Romania after World War II|deported]] and their property seized, and in [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]. In the Soviet territories, Germans were expelled from northern East Prussia ([[Oblast Kaliningrad]]) but also from the adjacent Lithuanian [[Klaipėda Region]] and other lands settled by [[Baltic Germans]].