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Flight & Expulsion of East Central European Germans
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As early as summer 1941, the Polish and Czechoslovak government in exile in London, called for border changes after the victory over Germany. This should include specifically the removal of the German population in these areas as well as from the rest of the country. The motives for this demand were varied: In particular, the Soviet Union aimed at a reduction of its western border. In addition to this argument, the military-Soviet Union could hope that, with the expulsion and dispossession of millions of Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia permanently may act as a guarantor of a new status quo. In this calculus, the Tsarist Russia and later the Soviet Union already had applied displacement in the North Caucasus as a political tool.
The demanded the expulsion of the Germans were justified by the principle of the ethnically pure nation-state. Were added, especially in Poland, socio-economic objectives. Large areas of East Central Europe at that time were considered to be overpopulated.
At the Yalta Conference in February 1945, the Soviet Union continued through the separation of Poland in 1939 Soviet-occupied eastern territories, and 1941 to the Soviet Union, which had also been annexed as a result of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920-1921 Poland. A common assumption is that the transfer of the eastern territories of the German Reich to Poland was intended from the outset as a compensation for the loss in the East. But this statement was later part of the Soviet justification.
Indeed, not only the Polish Communists demanded considerable German territories without their native population, but also the bourgeois camp, albeit to a much lesser extent (it was a part of East Prussia and Silesia). The requirement of the Oder-Neisse line, it does not exist. In retrospect, was trying to justify the annexation in order to ensure that those areas temporarily non-Polish Slavs were settled, so they called in the Polish propaganda as "regained territories".
Around 14 million German between 1944/45 and 1950 were affected by flight and expulsion of up to 3 million died from the direct and indirect consequences. After several hundred thousand German were detained in camps or had to do forced labor for years. A large number of women of all ages were raped, there were approximately 240,000 deaths as a result of rape. The entire east and private property of the Sudeten Germans was confiscated without compensation, the German public and even expropriated church property in these areas was. Among the 14 million refugees and displaced persons came mainly from the late 1950s, about four million German emigrants, so that a total of 18 million lost their German homeland.
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Flight & Expulsion of East Central European Germans Part Eight |
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