German expellees outnumbered French Algerian repatriates twelvefold per capita

Evidence

Some major differences between expulsion from the Eastern provinces and repatriation from Algeria can be stated from the outset. First, the difference in the number of migrants was large. While the repatriates numbered about a million, which made up less than three percent of the French metropolitan population, the expellees numbered more than twelve million. Almost eight million – constituting roughly a fifth of the population – ended up in the Western occupation zones (mainly in the British and American sectors), which became FRG territory in 1949. More than four million expelled Germans arrived in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ), the future German Democratic Republic (GDR), making up a quarter of its inhabitants. In a similar vein, the death toll amongst those expelled or repatriated was very different: while researchers have recently pointed to hundreds of disappearances among civilians at the end of the Algerian War, several hundred thousand people died or disappeared during the expulsion. In both cases the numbers of the dead have been highly disputed and politicized. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 45

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Over twelve million ethnic Germans were expelled from postwar Europe — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1530; French repatriates were a small minority while German expellees were one in five Germans — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1295; German expulsions were Allied-sanctioned while Algerian exodus came from decolonization war — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 46

Broader Connections

• Over twelve million ethnic Germans were expelled from postwar Europe #expands (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1530
• French repatriates were a small minority while German expellees were one in five Germans #expands (0.80) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1295
• German expulsions were Allied-sanctioned while Algerian exodus came from decolonization war #expands (0.80) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 46