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Although the Soviet Union had agreed to allow France to participate in the German occupation, Great Britain and the United States were not even consulted about the fact that Poland was also, in effect, granted status as an occupying power.
The 10.7 million Germans residing in the territories annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union were forced from their homes with another 2.9 million ethnic Germans expelled from Czechoslovakia. Most ended up in the US and British zones of occupation after suffering incredible hardships during their flight west.
Nearly 2.2 million died of starvation and exposure along the roads, as the fighting ran over them, and at the hands of vengeful Poles and Russians.(1) These refugees further aggravated the problem of feeding the German population which had traditionally received most of their foodstuffs from what was now the Soviet Zone of occupation and the territories now annexed by the Poles and the Soviets.
( Source: President Truman Library)