The Institute for Research of Expelled Germans (Institut für Vertriebenenforschung) is an academic research organisation working to document the largely unknown story of more than 10,000,000 ethnic German civilians who were subjected to deportation, compulsory labour, expulsion, and in some cases starvation and ethnic violence following World War II. This process had varying support and involvement by the governments of the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, and Yugoslavia. We are a non-political research institute; in no way do we justify the atrocities of the Nazis or undermine the genocides committed against other ethnic groups by the Germans or Soviets during the same timeframe. We strongly reject any revisionist, Antisemitic, or pro-Nazi tendencies. We have no relationship with expellee groups, political lobbies, or legal representatives whatsoever.