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. ; Germany lost a quarter of its pre-war (1937) territory Among the eastern territories Silesia Neumark and most of Pomerania were taken over by Poland and East Prussia was divided between Poland and the Soviet Union followed by the expulsion to Germany of the nine million Germans from these provinces as well as three million Germans from the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia By the 1950s one-fifth of West Germans were refugees from the east the Soviet Union also took over the Polish provinces east of the Curzon line from which 2 million Poles were expelled; north-east Romania parts of eastern Finland and the three Baltic states were incorporated into the Soviet Union. .
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