Some 301,000 civilians died due to the wartime flight and post-war expulsions.[45][46] 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.[46][47] 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,[48][49][50][51] 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[52]