As the decades continue since its' [sic] closure, the events surrounding the Second World War are still feverishly discussed. During the postwar years, peace treaties and conferences consumed the time of the allied leaders and the recently defeated. The important "Big Three" included the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. During one of the meetings, held in Potsdam, Germany, the leaders of these three countries made the decision to accept the massive expulsion of "Germans" from the Eastern European nations of Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary, and much smaller populations of "Germans" from Austria, Romania, and Yugoslavia. The Potsdam Conference, where the Potsdam Agreement was signed, legally gave these Eastern European countries, and Austria, the right to forcibly drive out thousands of people living within their borders....

The development of hatred for anything German in Poland, Czechoslavakia, and Hungary was created by or exacerbated by the Nazi occupation of each country. Exactly how the Second World War impacted these countries and their ultimate decision to expel their "German" populations at the close of the war will be examined in detail as well as the circumstances and violence surrounding the expulsions themselves and their life in occupied Germany.