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 | | By then a large portion of the German population had fled or were evacuated from Silesia out of fear of revenge by Soviet soldiers, but many returned after the German capitulation. |
 | | Under the terms of the agreements at the Yalta Conference of 1944 and the Potsdam Agreement of 1945, German Silesia east of the rivers Oder and Lusatian Neisse Rivers was transferred to Poland (see Oder-Neisse line). |
 | | Most of the remaining Silesian Germans, who before World War II amounted to about four million, were forcibly expelled, some of them imprisoned in labour camps, eg. |
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