By Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
The ultimate part and the aftermath of global struggle II observed thousands of refugees and displaced individuals wandering throughout japanese Europe in a single of the main brutal and chaotic migrations in global history.The genocidal barbarism of the Nazi forces has been good documented. What hitherto has been little recognized is the destiny of fifteen million German civilians who chanced on themselves on the mercy of Soviet armies and at the flawed facet of latest postwar borders. all over the place japanese Europe, the population of groups that have been confirmed for lots of centuries have been both expelled or killed. Over million Germans didn't survive.Many of those humans had supported Hitler, and for the Czechs, Poles, Ukrainians, and surviving Jews, their destiny should have appeared simply. despite the fact that, the nice majority--East Prussian farmers, Silesian commercial staff, their other halves and children--were guiltless. Their destiny, sentenced basically by means of race, is still an appalling legacy of the period.Alfred de Zayas's publication describes this terrible retribution. at the foundation of in depth learn in German and American documents, he outlines the lengthy heritage of those German groups, scattered from the Baltic to the Danude, and, such a lot movingly, reproduces the tales of surviors from the catastrophic exodus that marked the ultimate finish to Nazi fantasies of Lebensraum.
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The city of Eger was a German mercantile center that, since the twelfth century, had belonged directly to the kaiser, and not to a count or lesser nobleman. Its castle served as an imperial palace for the Staufer kaisers. It was from this palace that in the year 1213 Kaiser Friedrich II proclaimed a Golden Bull for Pope Innocence III on the touchy issue of investiture of bishops in the Reich. Not until 1322 did Kaiser Ludwig the Bavarian pledge the Egerland to the Bohemian King John of Luxemburg.
Both are now dead as welt. 13 The Polish military killed both my parents, Franz and Ida Busse, my aunt Klara Busse, and my fiance Erwin Dietrich. During the night of Monday to Tuesday, September 4th and 5th, my father and fiance had fled into the woods. There was a lot of shooting going on. We all thought that the Germans were coming. A woman came by who said it was Polish soldiers who were everywhere, not Germans. She said we had to run for our lives, which is what I did.
23. German refugees crossing the barbed wire between the Russian and British zones Red Cross). xl ii A TERRIBLE REVENGE 24. A Silesian expellee facing an uncertain future, 1948 (Swiss Red Cross) . 1 The Germans of East Central Europe G erman expellees? Who are they? Expelled from where? And where do they and their descendants now live? The German expellees from Central and Eastern Europe and two generations of their offspring live today in a diaspora, the world over, including the United States.
