A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944-1950

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Summary: Simplistic, and In a Historical Vacuum
Review: Throughout the book, DeZayas completely avoids discussing the real reasons for the expulsions. To begin with, the taking away of prime industrial territory away from Germany was designed to weaken her in the event that she wanted to start another war. The rest was for the benefit of the Soviet Union. The shifting of Germany hundreds of miles westward had a strategic purpose in the event of another war. The awarding of these lands to Poland was designed to palliate the thievery of Poland's eastern half in 1939, and again in 1944, and to add legitimacy to the Communist government then being forcibly imposed upon Poland for the first time. Finally, Stalin wanted to create a frontier settlement so odious to Germany that Poland would (hopefully) be forever bound in a dependency relationship to the Soviet Union, and Communism, to defend it.

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Summary: the other Holocaust
Review: Yes, these are the horrorific facts which you will not find in any historical books. Has anyone ever wondered when reading about the Holocaust, where did all German minorities, which lived in eastern europe for centuries disappear? The Russians have avenged themselves and had completely erased German ethnies in Eastern Europe during ww2, not just those who collaborated with Hitler, but anyone who was German! Unfortunately these people will never pay for their crimes, because without their help it wouldnt have been possible to defeat Nazi Germany. But what is imperative today, is that people get to learn about this, acknowledge it as a crime against humanity, and understand that ultimately it was the German ethnies all throughout Europe, that had suffered the Nazi tyranny the most.