1st Edition

Forgotten Voices The Expulsion of the German from Eastern Europe After World War II

By Ulrich Merten Copyright 2012
356 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsForeword I Background II The Flight and Expulsion of the German Population from East of the Oder-Neisse Line (Poland) III The Expulsion of the Ethnic German Population from the Former Czechoslovakia IV The Expulsion of the Ethnic German Population from Hungary V The Flight, Incarceration, and Expulsion of Ethnic Germans from the Former Republic of Yugoslavia VI The Fate of the Ethnic German Minority in Romania VII Conclusion: Integration and Reconciliation BibliographyIndex

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Ulrich Merten