Forgotten Voices: Expulsion of Germans After World War II torrent

Forgotten Voices - The Expulsion of the Germans from Eastern Europe after World War II (2012) by Ulrich Merten.pdf

The news agency Reuters reported in 2009 that a mass grave containing 1,800 bodies was found in Malbork, Poland. Polish authorities suspected that they were German civilians that were killed by advancing Soviet forces. A Polish archeologist supervising the exhumation, said, "We are dealing with a mass grave of civilians, probably of German origin. The presence of children . . . suggests they were civilians."

During World War II, the German Nazi regime committed great crimes against innocent civilian victims: Jews, Poles, Russians, Serbs, and other people of Central and Eastern Europe. At war’s end, however, innocent German civilians in turn became victims of crimes against humanity. Forgotten Voices lets these victims of ethnic cleansing tell their story in their own words, so that they and what they endured are not forgotten. This volume is an important supplement to the voices of victims of totalitarianism and has been written in order to keep the historical record clear.

Supplementary maps and pictures are available online at http://www.forgottenvoices.net

356 pages
Publisher: Transaction Publishers (March 12, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1412843022
ISBN-13: 978-1412843027