 Their number has been consistently decreasing since World War II.According to the 2001 census there remain 13 municipalities and settlements in Czech Republic with more than 10% Germans.The situation in Slovakia was different from that in Czech Republic, in that the number of Germans was considerably lower and that the Germans from Slovakia were almost completely evacuated to German states as the Soviet army was moving west through Slovakia, and only a fraction of those who returned to Slovakia after the end of the war were deported with the Germans from the Czech lands.