We were war victims too, Germans insist: 15 million ethnic Germans were expelled from East Prussia, Sudentenland, Pomerania, Silesia and other lands towards the end and shortly after World War 11. This process claimed the lives of 2 million of them and included the two worst maritime disasters in history, each of them far worse than better known disasters such as the Titanic.

We were war victims too, Germans insist: 15 million ethnic Germans were expelled from East Prussia, Sudentenland, Pomerania, Silesia and other lands towards the end and shortly after World War 11. This process claimed the lives of 2 million of them and included the two worst maritime disasters in history, each of them far worse than better known disasters such as the Titanic.