He is zwoar a Flichdling, owa a nedda Mensch, people used to say in my Bavarian hometown about those citizens who had mostly immigrated by force in the years after 1945, and this statement alone explains how widespread hatred and prejudices were at the time. People who were expelled from what is now the Czech Republic were often told lies that they were one of the main causes of the war, which the Bavarians could of course do nothing about. There was a very nasty swear word for Silesians that I will not repeat here, and in the case of Hungarians and Romanians many thought it appropriate to raise general doubts about their German origins. It was not at all the case that the refugees were valued here, and the main reason why they were abroad was that they were treated even worse in other countries, such as Austria. Times were also difficult in the American occupation zone, nobody liked to share, and it was felt to be unfair that the refugees were apparently given preferential treatment.