In autumn 1944 the Red army had already regained territory and the Sowjet soldiers came across the destruction left by the German Wehrmacht during their flight: burnt land, ruined villages and death.
Millions of Germans escape from East Prussia, Silesia and the Wartheland, because they know that Hitler's war of extermination will nox turn against themselves. What follows is the biggest mass flight in history.

"Hitlers letzte Opfer" contacts with the documentary series "Die Vertriebenen" from 2001.

Flight and ejection are pointed out with the examples of Königsberg, Lodz, Breslau, Prague and Brünn:
Königsberg was a fortress against a superior enemy. In the midst of winter people escaped to the West with everything they had. The terrible experiences made during this hard journey still shape the lives of many.
In Lodz the story of ejection began with the ejection of the Polish citizens in 1939 when the town was annexed by the Nazis and called "Litzmannstadt". In 1945 the Germans who were settled here escaped from the Red Army and the returning Poles.
In Breslau it was almost the same. After the recapture of the Sowjets Poles came to town. Some were returning to their old homes, but others were also ejected- now by Stalin in the East. Germans came to Breslau, too, but they were soon banished, when it was obvious that Silesia would fall under Polish administration.
1.5 million Poles and twelve million Germans lost their homes and some even their lives.
Also in Czechia anger and violence against the Germans were growing. Hitler had invaded the so called "Sudetenland" in 1938 and the Germans there welcomed their soldiers like deliverers. For the Czechs this meant treachery and after seven years of repression all their anger broke out.
In Brünn the strokes against the Germans were extremely hard: all men able to work were detained and women, children and old persons had to leave the town within 24 hours. 20.000 people had to go and the ejection was organized and monitored by groups of guerillas who acted very violently. The West reacted shocked and claimed a more human behaviour and an end of these "wild ejections" in Poland and Czechia. Commissions were set in to supervise the evacuations and the adherence of certain minimum standards.
But flight and ejection will always influence people's lives.

This documentary reconstructs the history of flight and ejection without disregarding the years of war between 1939 and 1945. Thus also Russians, poles and Czechs comment on the happenings of the past, which is most important for such a historically sensitive topic.