Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990 · THE MAP IN
Map of refugees in Europe in August 1945
Potsdam: borders move west
Refugees in Europe in August 1945: Potsdam: borders move west. The map shows who held what: Soviet-occupied or communist, Western bloc or democracy, Germany and Austria occupied.
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On the ground
- former German Pomerania, East Brandenburg and Silesia, placed under Polish administration at Potsdam; its Germans fled or were expelled
- former East Prussia and Danzig, divided between Poland and the Soviet Union; its Germans fled or were expelled
- the British zone of occupation, 1945–49
- the French zone of occupation, 1945–49 (the Saar under a separate French regime)
- the Soviet zone of occupation, 1945–49
- the American, British and French sectors of Berlin, 1945–49
- the German-speaking borderlands of Bohemia and Moravia, emptied of about three million Germans in 1945–46
- pre-war eastern Poland, ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945; most of its Poles moved west in 1944–46
- Finnish Karelia and Salla, ceded to the Soviet Union in 1940 and 1944; almost all its people moved to Finland
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