Redigerer Fordrivelsen av tyskere etter annen verdenskrig (avsnitt)

===Folkemord eller etnisk rensing===
Hendelsene har vanligvis blitt klassifisert som befolkningsoverføring<ref>Frank, Matthew. ''Expelling the Germans: British Opinion and Post-1945 Population Transfer in Context'', [[Oxford University Press]], 2008<!-- ISBN needed --></ref><ref>Renata Fritsch-Bournazel, ''Europe and German unification'', p. 77, [[Berg Publishers]] 1992</ref> eller som etnisk rensning.<ref>{{Cite book| url=https://books.google.com/?id=M734r1ZXW2cC&pg=PA657&dq=expulsion+cleansing+germans&q=expulsion%20cleansing%20germans| title=Encyclopedia of the United Nations and international agreements| first1=Edmund Jan| last1=Osmańczyk| publisher=Routledge| year=2003| isbn=0-415-93924-0| page=656| url-status=dead| archiveurl=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20151122160615/https://books.google.com/?id=M734r1ZXW2cC&pg=PA657&dq=expulsion+cleansing+germans&q=expulsion%20cleansing%20germans| archivedate=2015-11-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| url=https://books.google.com/?id=L-QLXnX16kAC&pg=PA108&dq=expulsion+cleansing+germans&q=expulsion%20cleansing%20germans| title=Fires of hatred: ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe| first1=Norman M.| last1=Naimark| publisher=Harvard University Press| year=2001| isbn=0-674-00994-0| pages=15, 112, 121, 136}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| url=https://books.google.com/?id=ARxnK1u_WOEC&pg=PA53&dq=expulsion+cleansing+germans&q=expulsion%20cleansing%20germans| title=A clean sweep?: the politics of ethnic cleansing in western Poland, 1945–1960| author=T. David Curp| publisher=University of Rochester Press| year=2006| isbn=1-58046-238-3|page=200}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| url=https://books.google.com/?id=JFvq55U3wy8C&pg=PA175&dq=expulsion+cleansing+germans&q=expulsion%20cleansing%20germans| title=Ethnicity and democratisation in the new Europe| first1=Karl| last1=Cordell| publisher=Routledge| year=1999| isbn=0-415-17312-4|page=175}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| title=Jüdische Geschichte als allgemeine Geschichte| author=Dan Diner, Raphael Gross & Yfaat Weiss| publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht| year=2006| isbn=3-525-36288-9|page=163}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| title=Immigration and Asylum: from 1900 to the Present, Volume 3| author=Matthew J. Gibney| url=http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?gibney| publisher=ABC-CLIO| year=2005| isbn=1-57607-796-9| page=196| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922202147/http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?gibney| archivedate=2007-09-22| tittel=Arkivert kopi| besøksdato=2009-08-29| arkivurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922202147/http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?gibney| arkivdato=2007-09-22| url-status=død}} {{Kilde www |url=http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?gibney |tittel=Arkivert kopi |besøksdato=2015-11-20 |arkiv-dato=2007-09-22 |arkiv-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922202147/http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?gibney |url-status=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| title=Redrawing nations: ethnic cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944–1948. Harvard Cold War studies book series| editor=Philipp Ther, Ana Siljak & Eagle Glassheim| publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]]| year=2001| isbn=0-7425-1094-8| page=197}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| title=What is genocide?| url=https://archive.org/details/whatisgenocide0000shaw| first=Martin| last=Shaw| authorlink=Martin Shaw (sociologist)| publisher=Polity| year=2007| isbn=0-7456-3182-7| page=[https://archive.org/details/whatisgenocide0000shaw/page/56 56]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| title=Dictionary of genocide, Volume 2| author=Paul Totten & Steven L. Jacobs| publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]]| year=2008| isbn=0-313-34644-5| page=335}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| title=Expelling the Germans: British opinion and post-1945 population transfer in context. Oxford historical monographs| url=https://archive.org/details/expellinggermans00fran| author=Matthew James Frank| publisher=[[Oxford University]] Press| year=2008| isbn=0-19-923364-0| page=[https://archive.org/details/expellinggermans00fran/page/5 5]}}</ref>

[[R.J. Rummel]] har klassifisert disse hendelsene som ''[[democid]]'',<ref name="Rummel305"/> og noen går så langt som å kalle det [[folkemord]] (''genocid'').<ref>*{{Cite book| title=What is genocide?| url=https://archive.org/details/whatisgenocide0000shaw| first=Martin| last=Shaw| authorlink=Martin Shaw (sociologist)| publisher=Polity| year=2007| isbn=0-7456-3182-7| pages=[https://archive.org/details/whatisgenocide0000shaw/page/56 56], 60}}</ref><ref>*{{Cite book| url=https://books.google.com/?id=nMMAk4VwLLwC&printsec=frontcover&q=konigsberg| title=Genocide, a history| author=W.D. Rubinstein| year=2004| publisher=Pearson Education Ltd.| isbn=0-582-50601-8| page=260}}</ref><ref>*{{Cite web |url=http://www.ermacora-institut.at/wDeutsch/dokumente/pdf/gutachten_ermacora_1991.pdf |title=Gutachten Ermacora 1991 |author=Felix Ermacora |format=pdf |year=1991 |language=de |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516024318/http://www.ermacora-institut.at/wDeutsch/dokumente/pdf/gutachten_ermacora_1991.pdf |archivedate=2011-05-16 |tittel=Arkivert kopi |besøksdato=2010-06-19 |arkivurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516024318/http://www.ermacora-institut.at/wDeutsch/dokumente/pdf/gutachten_ermacora_1991.pdf |arkivdato=2011-05-16 |url-status=død }} {{Kilde www |url=http://www.ermacora-institut.at/wDeutsch/dokumente/pdf/gutachten_ermacora_1991.pdf |tittel=Arkivert kopi |besøksdato=2015-11-20 |arkiv-dato=2011-05-16 |arkiv-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516024318/http://www.ermacora-institut.at/wDeutsch/dokumente/pdf/gutachten_ermacora_1991.pdf |url-status=unfit }}</ref> Den polske sosiologen og filosofen Lech Nijakowski, blant andre,{{Hvem}} innvender mot bruken av begrepet «folkemord», og anser det som unøyaktig ''[[agitprop]]'' («agitasjonspropaganda»).<ref>[http://scholar.com.pl/sklep.php?md=products&id_c=1&id_p=2332& Nijakowski, Rozkosz zemsty, Socjologia historyczna mobilizacji ludobójczej] {{Wayback|url=http://scholar.com.pl/sklep.php?md=products&id_c=1&id_p=2332& |date=20160303223753 }}, scholar.com.pl; accessed 6 December 2014.</ref>