sentences:  Many of those who were evacuated during the war returned to their homes in the east after May 1945; only to be transferred back to Germany in the following years.The West German Schieder commission estimated based on German ration card data from February/March 1944 that the total civilian German population ("des deutschen Bevölkerungsstandes") east of the Oder-Neisse line was 11,924,000 at the end of 1944.Including 9,758,000 in pre-war German territory; 134,000 in Memel  404,000 in Danzig and 1,602,000 on occupied Polish territory.