Did East Germany (and anything else in the USSR's wake) experience a significant shift in its ethnic demographics in the years after WWII?

by HighOrderDet

That about sums it up. Plenty of anecdotes about the Russian army raping its way to Berlin, but what was the result? How many half-Soviet babies popped out once the Allies triumphed? I'm unsure of how census data was taken back then, and whether said data would be complete enough to observe a trend such as this.

Edit: Simply put, what are the chances that a random male born in Germany today will have heritage that traces back to Russia/fmr USSR?

Alofat

There were massive amounts of rapes, but only a very small percentage of those would have lead to pregnancies. Even then those babies would grow up as Germans, I don't see how there would be an ethnic shift?

BTW. next time you might want to ask questions like this with a more refined tone.