0h 1min, may 1, 1945 y - Social and economic impact of WW2 on Germany

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-6.5 million Germans had been killed and roughly 20m were homeless
-7 million more women than men; a ratio of 170 women to every 100 men
-2 out of every 3 German men born in 1918 did not survive Hitler's war
-Over 1/4 of all houses were destroyed; in Berlin 75% of the buildings were uninhabitable and in Dusseldorf 9/10 houses were damaged
-There were 14 billion cubic feet of bricks and rubble to clear in Germany
-There was a mass migration of Germans resulting in around 1/2 million Germans dying as a result of flight and expulsion. Between 12 and 14 million ethnic Germans fled or were forcibly expelled from the Eastern terrirories

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