 About 55,000 people died in the concentration camps, another 31,000 died serving in the German armed forces, and about 31,000 disappeared, mostly likely dead, with another 37,000 still unaccounted for.Thus the total victims of the war and subsequent ethnic cleansing and killings comprised about 30% of the pre-war German population.There are currently approx 8,300 people in former Yugoslavia who acknowledge some German heritage.