sentences:  The West German search service was able to confirm the deaths of 86,860 civilians due to the wartime flight and evacuations from those areas.The plans to evacuate the German speaking population westwards from Eastern Europe including from cities and towns in the Eastern Gaue of Nazi Germany were prepared by various Nazi authorities towards the end of the war.According to postwar affidavit submitted in 1947 by the Nazi governor of Warsaw, "Gruppenführer" Ludwig Fischer