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100			_aMerten, Ulrich _91739
245		0	_aForgotten Voices: The Expulsion of the Germans from Eastern Europe after World War II
260			_c2013 _bTransaction Publishers, _aNew Brunswick (USA), London (UK),
300			_a336 pages
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520			_a"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. The root cause of this tragedy was ultimately the Nazi German regime. As a leading German historian, Hans-Ulrich Wehler has noted, "Germany should avoid creating a cult of victimization, and thus forgetting Auschwitz and the mass killing of Russians." Ulrich Merten argues that applying collective punishment to an entire people is a crime against humanity. He concludes that this should also be recognized as a European catastrophe, not only a German one, because of its magnitude and the broad violation of human rights that occurred on European soil."
648			_apostwar history _95955
650			_aethnicity _918
650			_aethnic Germans _95956
650			_aVertriebene _95621
650			_aforced migration _91740
651			_aEastern Europe _91741
856			_3Table of Contents and Summary _uhttps://www.routledge.com/Forgotten-Voices-The-Expulsion-of-the-German-from-Eastern-Europe-After/Merten/p/book/9781412852586
856			_3Supplementary maps and pictures _uhttps://forgottenvoices.net/
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