/ Anti-German sentiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-German_sentiment ********* Dealing in Hate: The development of anti-German propaganda http://www.ihr.org/books/connors/dealinginhate.html *********** The story of mass deportations of Germans from the East is a terrible one. Alfred de Zayas, an expert on refugees, trained in history at Tuebingen and Goettingen, and in law at Harvard, gathered the expellees' first-hand reports in his book (DeZayas, Alfred, A Terrible Revenge: The ethnic cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944-50. New York: St. Martin's Press ). These Germans were civilians who had settled in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, mainly as farmers. Many had been there for several generations. Once the Germans were defeated, deportation orders were posted everywhere. Germans had to leave their homes within twenty four hours, taking with them only ten kilograms of personal belongings and leaving their households untouched. Men, women and children set out on the road often with no transportation organized for them. In fact, there was frequently no plan at all for handling these refugees. For most, no food or shelter was provided. They were simply ordered to get out. And so, fifteen million Germans were displaced in what amounted to ethnic cleansing. As they made their way back to a shrunken and defeated Germany, these helpless people provided a perfect target for the wrath of Poles, Czechs and Hungarians who had suffered under the Germans during the war years. Women were brutally raped, often until they died of the injuries or were shot by their rapists. Children starved en masse. No one intervened on behalf of those people caught up in the horrific ethnic cleansing of Germans living in the eastern territories. The unimaginable suffering of the expellees in those years was barely known outside of Germany. Very few foreigners paid any attention or made any effort to establish privately funded assistance. After all, those who were suffering were "bad guys". Source: primal-page.com Thus was the vengence taken on those that were not really the cause of the German atrocities during World War II. It was absulute mayheihem no one in control and what is believe to be innocent people took the wrath for those that were guilty. This was not something I knew much about and thought others would be interested in knowing the facts and the volumn of hatred for Germans after Germany was defeated. As normal in every war it would seem its innocent citizens that suffer the most on both sides of the fence. In this case after the war had finished. Continue reading at NowPublic.com: Hatred of germans after World War II - Ethnic cleansing | NowPublic News Coverage http://www.nowpublic.com/world/hatred-germans-after-world-war-ii-ethnic-cleansing#ixzz20drZYdkW http://www.nowpublic.com/world/hatred-germans-after-world-war-ii-ethnic-cleansing ________ Lavrentiy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence Krupnak" <LKrupnak@verizon.net> To: <german-bohemian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 5:35 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Expulsion discussions > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Laurence Krupnak" <LKrupnak@verizon.net> > To: <german-bohemian@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 10:23 AM > Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Expulsion discussions > > >> / >> >> Also, find reports, observations, etc. which were written during >> the time of the expulsions. Writings of the contemporary period >> often >> distort perspectives, called political correcting. >> >> The passions of the 1945-1950 ran deep. >> >> ______ >> >> Lavrentiy > > > / > > Contemporary authors who write about the expulsions (e.g., why > were > the expelled treated badly, etc.) often overlook the fact that the > German people were almost universally hated right after the war. The > German nation and German people inflicted great pain on others. > > _______ > > Lavrentiy > > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thus was the vengence taken on those that were not really the cause of the German atrocities during World War II. It was absulute (sic) mayheihem (sic) no one in control and what is believe to be innocent people took the wrath for those that were guilty. This was not something I knew much about and thought others would be interested in knowing the facts and the volumn of hatred for Germans after Germany was defeated. As normal in every war it would seem its innocent citizens that suffer the most on both sides of the fence. In this case after the war had finished.