[2] Previously he was associated with the Centre for Research on Antisemitism (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung) at Technische Universität Berlin.
[3] Ingo Haar believes that civilian losses in the expulsion of the Germans from eastern Europe have been overstated in Germany for decades for political reasons.
Haar argues that Cold War political pressure influenced the findings of the Schieder commission and the 1958 West German government demographic study that estimated 2 million expulsion deaths .
Haar maintains that the actual number of deaths directly related to the expulsions is between 500 and 600,000 persons based on the findings of the German church search service and the report of the German government archives.
Dr. Haar maintains that the figure of 2 million expulsion deaths includes "a fall in the German birth rate, persons assimilated into the local population, military dead, murdered Jews and missing persons" [4][5][6] Haar has criticized the Federation of Expellees for inflating the numbers of German victims of the expulsion of Germans after World War II,;[7] the former expellees' president Erika Steinbach in her reply accused Haar of reducing the number of victims.