sentences:  In total, some 1,200,000 people managed to escape to Germany, while about 800,000 pre-war inhabitants remained in East Prussia as of the summer of 1945.The number of fatalities is disputed by historian Ingo Haar who maintains that they were inflated by the West German government during the Cold war, Haar pointed out that the West German search service was able to confirm 123,360 civilian fatalities in East Prussia due to the wartime flight and post-war expulsions
  
  The evacuation of Pomerania was also delayed.It was further complicated by the influx of the Germans evacuated from East Prussia.