I wonder if in the next 50 years, or later, historians will look back at the forced dispossession of ethnic Germans from eastern and central Europe after WWII as a crime against humanity?
Christoph Donnellan: “What was done to ethnic Germans from the east after the end of WWII by Czech, Polish, and Soviet communist regimes was one ugly atrocity but no one seems to care about Germans, even women and children. Even Germans today don’t like to discuss the matter publicly or take their own side. In contrast, Jews make a federal case oout of every single historical sleight, real or exaggerated.”
From Metapedia: As for the period from the end of the Second World War to 1955 at least 8,800,000 Germans were killed by genocidal actions. Since 1955 new menaces exist which can turn into renewed genocide actions.
From Wikipedia: An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945 (ISBN 978-0465042142) is a book by John Sack, which states that some Jews in Eastern Europe took revenge on their former captors while overseeing over 1,000 concentration camps in Poland for German civilians. The book provides details of the imprisonment of 200,000 Germans “many of them starved, beaten and tortured” and estimates that “more than 60,000 died at the hands of a largely Jewish-run security organisation.” A professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University, Antony Polonsky, said that his “research appears to be sound”,[1] but he and other reviewers have questioned the “extent of Jewish persecution of Germans”, in Sack’s book.
PAUL JOHNSON WRITES IN MODERN TIMES:
Yet the end of 1938 marked the watershed in Hitler’s career, not least with the German people. He overestimated their will to power. They supported overwhelmingly his policy of German irridentism. They applauded the Anschluss: plebiscites showed 99 per cent approval in Germany and 99.75 per cent in Austria. 54 They wanted the Sudetenland back. But there is no evidence that they ever wanted to absorb large populations of non-Germans. There is ample evidence that most Germans did not want war. When on 27 September 1938 Hitler deliberately ordered the 2nd Motorized Division to pass through Berlin on its way to the Czech border, less than two hundred people came out to watch him review it from the Reichskanzlerplatz. He marched back into the building disgusted. Thereafter, his brutal moves on the European chessboard, however successful or even triumphant, evoked no spontaneous applause
from the German public. There was a total lack of elation when German troops marched into Prague.
Hitler sensed this vacuum in German hearts. But he no longer sought to fill it. He would go forward with or without their enthusiasm. All he insisted on was their obedience. From 1939 he ceased to play the politician, the orator, the demagogue. He became a militarist, working from army headquarters, and by means of secret gangster-pacts. His methods of government began to approximate to Stalin’s, losing their public dimension of approbation and leadership. He ceased to woo: he now sought only to force and terrorize. His speech to the Reichstag on 1 September 1939, justifying his war on Poland, was short and flat; the streets were deserted as he drove to make it. Nor did the crowds turn out when the troops returned victorious. As George Kennan noted from the American embassy, the Berliners refused to cheer or even give the Nazi salute: ‘Not even the most frantic efforts of professional Nazi agitators could provoke them to demonstrations of elation or approval.’ It was the same even when the German troops took Paris.
