Local authorities forced most of the remaining ethnic Germans to leave between 1945 and 1950. Remnants of the ethnic German community survive in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. A significant ethnic German community has continued in Siebenbürgen (Transylvania) in Romania and in Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia) but most of it migrated to West Germany throughout the 1980s. There are also remnant German populations near Mukachevo in western Ukraine. Legacy The term is generally avoided today due to its usage by the Nazis. Instead, ethnic Germans of foreign citizenship living outside of Germany are called "Deutsche Minderheit" (meaning "German minority"), or names more closely associated with their earlier places of residence, such as Wolgadeutsche or Volga Germans, the ethnic Germans living in the Volga basin in Russia; and Baltic Germans, who generally called themselves Balts, and Estländer in Estonia. They were relocated to German-occupied Poland during World War II by an agreement between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, and most were expelled to the West after the war, under an allied accord called the Potsdam Agreement. See also Areas annexed by Germany German nationality law Goralenvolk Selbstschutz Imperial Germans, for a discussion of the different concepts and the shift of meaning between them. Fifth column Heimatvertriebene Umvolkung Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950) Demographic estimates of the flight and expulsion of Germans World War II evacuation and expulsion Pursuit of Nazi collaborators Nur für Deutsche Brandenburgers Notes References BibliographyNazi Fifth Column Activities: A List of References, Library of Congress, 1943The German fifth column in the Second World War, by L. de JongThe German Fifth Column in Poland, London: Hutchinson & Co Ltd, Luther, Tammo (2004): Volkstumspolitik des Deutschen Reiches 1933–1938. Die Auslanddeutschen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Traditionalisten und Nationalsozialisten, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2004 Douglas, R.M.: Orderly and Humane. The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War, Yale University Press, 2012. . Franzel, Emil: Sudetendeutsche Geschichte, Mannheim: 1978. . Franzel, Emil: Die Sudetendeutschen, Munich: Aufstieg Verlag, 1980. Meixner, Rudolf, Geschichte der Sudetendeutschen, Nuremberg: 1988. . Naimark, Norman: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe, Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 2001. Oltmer, Jochen: "Heimkehr"? "Volksdeutsche fremder Staatsangehörigkeit" aus Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa im deutschen Kaiserreich und in der Weimarer Republik, EGO – European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, 2011, retrieved: June 16, 2011. Prauser, Steffen and Rees, Arfon: The Expulsion of the "German" communities from Eastern Europe at the End of