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The Forgotten German Genocide - Revenge Cleansing in Eastern Europe, 1945-50 (Hardcover)
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The Forgotten German Genocide - Revenge Cleansing in Eastern Europe, 1945-50 (Hardcover)
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The Potsdam Conference (officially known as the "Berlin
Conference"), was held from 17 July to 2 August 1945 at Cecilienhof
Palace, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Brandenburg, and saw
the leaders of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United
States, gathered together to decide how to demilitarise, denazify,
decentralise, and administer Germany, which had agreed to
unconditional surrender on 8 May (VE Day). They determined that the
remaining German populations in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary
- both the ethnic (Sudeten) and the more recent arrivals (as part
of the long-term plan for the domination of Eastern Europe) -
should to be transferred to Germany, but despite an undertaking
that these would be effected in an orderly and humane manner, the
expulsions were carried out in a ruthless and often brutal manner.
Land was seized with farms and houses expropriated; the occupants
placed into camps prior to mass expulsion from the country. Many of
these were labour camps already occupied by Jews who had survived
the concentration camps, where they were equally unwelcome. Further
cleansing was carried out in Romania and Yugoslavia, and by 1950,
an estimated 11.5 million German people had been removed from
Eastern Europe with up to three million dead. The number of ethnic
Germans killed during the 'cleansing' period is suggested at
500,000, but in 1958, Statistisches Bundesamt (the Federal
Statistical Office of Germany) published a report which gave the
figure of 1.6 million relating to expulsion-related population
losses in Poland alone. Further investigation may in due course
provide a more accurate figure to avoid the accusation of
sensationalism.
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