Why didn’t the German population leave Dar es Salaam before the outbreak of WWII?

What was the population of Germany before World War II?

List of countries by population in 1939

Rank Country/territory Percentage of world’s population
World
7 Germany subdivisions Germany – 69,314,000 Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia – 7,380,000 Austria – 6,658,000 Sudetenland – 3,261,636 Memel – 141,645 3.8%

What happened to German civilians after the war?

After the war, millions of German settlers were forcibly, even violently, expelled and sent back to Germany. Other ethnic Germans, whose families had lived in border regions like the Sudetenland for generations, also fled or were expelled. Allied opinion was divided about these expulsions.

What happened to German civilians during ww2?

Many German civilians were sent to internment and labour camps where they were used as forced labour as part of German reparations to countries in eastern Europe. The major expulsions were complete in 1950.

How did ww2 affect the German population?

Area bombing



Over the next 3 years: 61 German cities, with a combined population of 25 million, were attacked; 3.6 million homes were destroyed; 7.5 million people were made homeless; 300,000 – 400,000 Germans were killed in the raids; and 800,000 people were wounded.

How much of Germany’s population was lost in ww2?

Das Heer 1933–1945 by Burkhart Müller-Hillebrand



Overall Müller-Hillebrand estimated the total dead and missing at 4.0 million men.

How many Germans lived in Poland before ww2?

According to the 1931 census, around 740,000 German speakers lived in Poland (2.3% of the population).

What did Soviets do to German prisoners?

Approximately three million German prisoners of war were captured by the Soviet Union during World War II, most of them during the great advances of the Red Army in the last year of the war. The POWs were employed as forced labor in the Soviet wartime economy and post-war reconstruction.

What happened to most German soldiers after ww2?

In the years following World War II, large numbers of German civilians and captured soldiers were forced into labor by the Allied forces.

What did they do to German soldiers after ww2?

After Germany’s surrender in May 1945, millions of German soldiers remained prisoners of war. In France, their internment lasted a particularly long time. But, for some former soldiers, it was a path to rehabilitation.



What was Germany’s population in 1939?

79.7 million people

Following the annexation of Austria in 1938 and the Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia) in 1939, German territory and population encompassed 586,126 square kilometers and 79.7 million people, according to the 1939 census.

What was the population of Germany in 1700?

16 million

In terms of the boundaries of 1914, Germany in 1700 had a population of 16 million, increasing slightly to 17 million by 1750, and growing more rapidly to 24 million by 1800.



What was Germany’s population in 1913?

68 million

In 1871, Germany had a population of 41 million people; by 1913, this had increased to 68 million.

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