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Orderly and Humane - The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War (Paperback)
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Orderly and Humane - The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War (Paperback)
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More than 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe were
driven from their homes in the wake of WWII, yet barely anyone
noticed or remembers Immediately after the Second World War, the
victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced
relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and
southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost
unimaginable-between 12,000,000 and 14,000,000 civilians, most of
them women and children-and the losses horrifying-at least 500,000
people, and perhaps many more, died while detained in former
concentration camps, while locked in trains en route, or after
arriving in Germany exhausted, malnourished, and homeless. This
book is the first in any language to tell the full story of this
immense man-made catastrophe. Based mainly on archival records of
the countries that carried out the forced migrations and of the
international humanitarian organizations that tried but failed to
prevent the disastrous results, Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion
of the Germans after the Second World War is an authoritative and
objective account. It examines an aspect of European history that
few have wished to confront, exploring how the expulsions were
conceived, planned, and executed and how their legacy reverberates
throughout central Europe today. The book is an important study of
the largest recorded episode of what we now call "ethnic
cleansing," and it may also be the most significant untold story of
the Second World War.
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