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The question of the size of the postwar population of the Soviet Union is not the least of the enigmas which have been baffling students of Russian affairs. Hardly any estimate or evaluation of an economic, sociological or military character for the U.S.S.R. can be made meaningful without an accurate knowledge of the demographic base.

— Eugene M. Kulischer Kulischer (1949)

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Like a gigantic pump, the German Reich sucked in Europe's resources and working population.

The modern age did not so much invent new forms of migration as alter drastically the means and conditions of the old forms.

p. 96 cited in: S. Collinson (1999)

"Ethnic Germans were transferred into Germany, mainly from eastern Europe; it has been estimated that approximately 600,000 persons had been transferred into the German Reich by the spring of 1942."

p. 25 as cited in: David L. Sills (1968)

Today a host of foreigners unprecedented in number and unparalleled in character is living and working in Germary like a gigantic pump, the new German Reich is sucking in all it resources of Europe and masses of Europe's working population.

Man's history is the story of his wanderings. Some epochs of the remote past have frequently been called 'periods of great migrations.' This terminology presumes that at other times migratory movements were at a standstill, especially in the case of a so-called 'sedentary' people. Every epoch is a period of "great migrations".

p. 8 as cited in: Susanne Schätzle (2004)

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