The majority of the remaining German-speaking population east of the Oder–Neisse line (roughly 10 million in the ostgebiete alone) that had not already been evacuated was expelled. Although in the post-war period earlier German sources often cited the number of evacuated and expelled Germans at 16 million and the death toll at between 1.7[37] and 2.5 million,[38] today, the numbers are considered by some historians to be exaggerated and more likely in the range between 400,000 and 600,000.[39] Some present-day estimates place the numbers of German refugees at 14 million of which about half a million died during the evacuations and expulsions.[39][40]