50 Theses on the Expulsion of the Germans from Central and Eastern Europe 1944-1948

50 Theses on Expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe 1944-1948 Alfred de Zayas Verlag Inspiration Un Limited, Berlin/London 2012The 50 Theses is an updated summary of two earlier welldocumented publications by author, a respected historian. These are Nemesis at Potsdam (Picton Press, 2003) and A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of East European Germans, 1944-50 (Palgrave/Macmillan 2006).In recent years, has come to be seen media and international community as a particularly heinous human rights violation. At same time, a strong double standard has existed to suppress any mention of what Alfred de Zayas calls the greatest forced migration of civilian population history - expulsion of vast numbers of ethnic Germans from their ancestral homelands east-central and Eastern Europe at end of World War II. Approximately 19 million ethnic Germans had lived those regions, often for hundreds of years. Of these, de Zayas says that some 12 million were expelled, 4 million were allowed to stay their homes but for most part without rights or minority protection, one million died war, and final two million were killed or perished course of expulsion and its aftermath. We are told that numerically speaking, only so-called population exchange between Pakistan and India years 1947 and 1948 comes close.... Indeed, German expulsion far exceeds 'ethnic cleansing' conducted by Serbia former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1999.Article XIII of communique issued at end of Potsdam Conference July 1945 spoke of deliberations between U.S. President Harry Truman, British prime ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Atlee (the latter having supplanted Churchill during conference after British elections that month), and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin about transfer of It seems that Article XIII was inserted hurriedly because, aware that a brutal expulsion was already ongoing, Western Allies wanted to provide that expulsions would be orderly and humane and to place them under supervision of Allied Control Council Berlin.Orderly and humane predictably turned out to be a mere verbal cover for a brutal process. Statistical assessments of numbers who died vary widely. De Zayas himself accepts a two million figure, which is consistent with number of 2.225 million determined by a 1958 investigation by German Federal Statistical Office Wiesbaden. The same two million estimate was stated by German government 2006. At same time, however, in his Memoirs Konrad Adenauer noted: 'According to American figures a total of 13.3 million Germans were expelled... 7.3 million arrived Eastern zone and three Western zones [of Germany]... Six million Germans have vanished from earth... They are dead, gone.' It would seem, then, that number is open to question.The taboo against any mention of this particular ethnic cleansing still continues. De Zayas observes that the silence surrounding expulsion of Germans transgresses very ethos of scholarship and constricts both research and open discussion. It is noteworthy that Canadian historian James Bacque, his book Crimes and Mercies (Little, Brown and Company, 1997), says that my fellow author, Alfred de Zayas, a graduate of Harvard and of Goettingen, spent years researching and writing his book Nemesis at Potsdam, about expulsions from east of Germany. And then he had to spend ten years sending it round to almost a hundred publishers West before manuscript was finally accepted. The president of one of biggest houses New York returned manuscript with note that he would never publish a book sympathetic to Germans. Despite taboo, however, de Zayas and a few other scholars continue their efforts to make episode (if we may call something of such magnitude that) known. …

Récupéré en direct depuis OpenAlex et désinversé. Les résumés ne sont pas conservés dans cette base de données : les index inversés représentent 8,6 Go des 9,3 Go de texte de la base, et le serveur dispose de 13 Go libres.