East European German admixture in Germany after WW2 - where they settled

[Peterski]

East European Germans in Germany, November 1946:



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Some interesting info about their regional distribution:

Germans from East Prussia settled mainly along the Baltic and North Sea coasts: "(...) The expellees from East Prussia moved westward along the Baltic Sea and piled up in large concentrations in both Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein on the southern coast of that sea and near the Danish border. (...)"

Eastern European Germans in West Germany in 1950:



Baden-Württemberg only:



https://www.leo-bw.de/media/kgl_atla.../HABW_12_6.pdf



Bavaria only:



Schleswig only:



There was a large gender imbalance in the expellee population, the men having been lost in the war:



Regional distribution of East European Germans (where they settled):



Breakdown of Eastern European Germans by their region of origin:



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But between 1950 and 1961 many Germans fled the GDR (Soviet/Communist Germany) and settled in West Germany - in total approximately 2,700,000 - including around 839,000 Germans who had previously fled Eastern Europe (and had initially settled in the GDR, later fleeing to West Germany):

"Of the approximate 2.7 million Germans who fled the GDR prior to 1961, 839,000 were expellees [from Eastern Europe]."

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Da...d/kwp_2070.pdf

[Lucas]

One map summarinzing all above

We also see from what parts of Eastern Europe they migrated and where. It is the same case as in Poland. Simple logistics forced migrants to move to most closer location. It wouldn't be logical to transport masses of Sudetenland Germans to Schleswig instead of Bavaria.

Small numbers for French Occuption Zone (Palatinate and south-western Baden-Wurrtemberg) caused by French refuse to receive refugees in first years after war.

In case of autosomal genetics it means that southern autosomally Germans migrated to similar territories. In case of Pommeranians migrating to Mecklemburg it was also not very disimilar area for them. But East-Prussians migrating to Lower Saxony were very different from local inhabitants...




Linguistically migrants arriving to similar areas too.

[Impaler]

148.596 in Romania, that's a lot.

[Golden Lining]

Actually, a lot of them moved to Southern Germany starting in the late 1950s. But it shows that the anthropological differences in Germany are much lower today than it was 100 years ago.