This page was saved in 2011 or earlier, sadly without a link. Part of the page was copied in 2019; the link is https://gaf.news/2019/10/13/11-million-germans-were-murdered-after-wwii/. It was there in January 2022. The Wiki link above still works. Late 1945 onward was not a good time to be a German. Men who were there with the Wehrmacht are still prone to be apologetic.
History is never as 'clean' as taught in school, wars even
less so.
The good guy/bad guy paradigm that pervades educational and cultural
constructs is far too simplistic to account for such accuracy and
detail. Not to mention that their intent is not to educate but to
subjugate.
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20,000,000 Germans died in WW-II – more than half were non-
combatants.
Approximately 20 million central European Germans, members of one of
the German nation had lost their lives by the early 1950s. All had
perished at the hands of the victor nations who almost to a man took
their instruction from those who were neither European by race, nor
Christian by religion.
Four million persons perished because of the ethnic cleansing carried
out by, Russians, Poles, Czechs, and Serbs according to the former
German Prime Minister Konrad Adenauer,
Five million Germans starved to death in occupied Germany according to
estimates by the Canadian
James Bacque, and 2 million German Soldiers
died in allied captivity often while performing slave labor in
Auschwitz like - and worse - conditions.
General Eisenhower prohibited the German Public from sharing their own
meager rations with detained German soldiers on pain of death. Hence
from 1944 until 1948 a U.S. and Russian Holocaust for the Germans was
on going.
For more information on this topic see books by the following authors:
James Bacque (Other Losses) (Crimes and Mercies), Alfred M. de Zayas
(Die Wehrmacht-Untersuch ungstelle) and (The Nemisis of Potsdam),
Guido Knopp (Die Gefangenen), Erich Kern and Karl Balzer (Allierte
Verbrechen and Deutschen). A similarly important historical document
is the book titled (Alliierte Kriegsverbrechen) which translates to
"Allied War Crimes".
The book "Gruesome Harvest," should be on the mandatory high school and
college reading list for history and sociology.
It is one of the few books that are available in English that address
the murder of millions of non-combatant German civilians and German
prisoners of war from 1944 to 1950 as a matter of deliberate allied
policy not inefficient logistics as it is most often presented in
school text books.
This book is NOT "politically correct" by a long shot - Thank God for
that.
As to the correct observation that allied policy was to reduce the
German population through, murder in multiple forms, slave labor, and
starvation, and destroy the fabric of the society through mass rape of
the female population, other authors are critized for saying the same
thing but only decades later.
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5000 women were raped in Berlin in May and April of 1945. 1 in 10 died
as a result. At the end of World War II, Red Army soldiers are
estimated to have raped around 2,000,000 German women and girls. *, **
Antony Beevor estimates that up to half the victims were victims of
gang rapes. It has been stated that not only did each victim have to
carry the trauma with her for the rest of her days, it inflicted a
massive collective trauma on the East German nation.
"The social psychology of women and men in the soviet zone of
occupation was marked by the crime of rape from the first days of
occupation, through the founding of the GDR in the fall of 1949, until
- one could argue - the present."[ Naimark***]
German women who became pregnant after being raped by Soviet soldiers
in World War II were invariably denied abortion to further humiliate
them as to carry an unwanted child. As a result, according to the book
Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor, some 90% of raped Berlin
women in 1945 had venereal diseases as results of these consequential
rapes and 3.7% of all children born in Germany from 1945 to 1946 had
Russian fathers. The history behind this particular rape of the German
women by the Soviet troops was considered a taboo topic until 1992.
(See Red Army atrocities via Google)
Direct Footnotes:
*Beevor, Antony (2002-05-01). "'They raped every German female from
eight to 80'". London: guardian.co.uk.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,707835,00.html.
Retrieved 2010-04-06.
**Johnson, Daniel (2002-01-24). "Red Army troops raped even Russian
women as they freed them from camps - Telegraph". London:
www.telegraph.co.uk.
link -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/01/24/wbeev24.xml.
Retrieved 2010-04-06.
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11,000,000 German POWs at the end of WW-II - one million German POWs
died in prison of starvation and neglect.
The number of wounded during the entire conflict surpasses 6,000,000,
and the number of prisoners of war reaches 11,000,000. In all,
approximately 5,533,000 soldiers from Germany and other nationalities
fighting for the German armed forces, including the Waffen SS, are
estimated to have been killed in action, died of wounds, died in
custody or gone missing in World War II.
After the German surrender, the International Red Cross was prohibited
from providing aid such as food or visiting prisoner camps in Germany.
However, after making approaches to the Allies in the autumn of 1945
it was allowed to investigate the camps in the British and French
occupation zones of Germany, as well as to provide relief to the
prisoners held there. On February 4, 1946, the Red Cross was permitted
to visit and assist prisoners also in the US occupation zone of
Germany, although only with very small quantities of food. "During
their visits, the delegates observed that German prisoners of war were
often detained in appalling conditions. They drew the attention of the
authorities to this fact, and gradually succeeded in getting some
improvements made"
The Allies also shipped POWs between them, with for example 6,000
German officers transferred from Western Allied camps to the
Sachsenhausen concentration camp that now was under Soviet Union
administration. The US also shipped 740,000 German POWs as forced
labourers to France from where newspaper reports told of very bad
treatment.
Judge Robert H. Jackson, Chief US prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials,
in October 1945 told US President Harry S. Truman that the Allies
themselves:
"…have done or are doing some of the very things we are
prosecuting the Germans for. The French are so violating the Geneva
Convention in the treatment of prisoners of war that our command is
taking back prisoners sent to them. We are prosecuting plunder and our
Allies are practicing it."[*][**]
Greater than one million German POWs died in prison of starvation and
neglect. One million died after the war while in Soviet labor camps.
Their crime..? Being captured…!
Direct Footnotes:
* David Lubań, "Legal Modernism", Univ of Michigan Press, 1994. ISBN
13: 9780472103805 pp. 360, 361
** The Legacy of Nuremberg PBF
The number of German POWs held in captivity:
3,127,380 taken by USSR (474,967 to 1.094.250 died in captivity (35,8
%)
3,630,000 taken by Great Britain
3,100,000 taken by the United States
937,000 taken by France
Unknown number in Yugoslavia, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
(the death rate for German prisoners of war was highest in Yugoslavia
with over 50%)[87]
1.3 million total unknown
Direct Footnote - Kriegsgefangene: Viele kamen nicht zurück—Politik—
stern.de!
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Expulsions - 12,000,000 to 14,000,000 Germans were uprooted and
relocated during and after the war.
The movement of Germans involved a total of at least 12 million
people, with some sources putting the figure at 14 million, and was
the largest movement or transfer of ANY population in modern history.
The largest numbers came from the former eastern territories of
Germany acquired by Poland and the Soviet Union (approx. 7 million)
and from Czechoslovakia (approx. 3 million). It was also the
LARGESTamong all the post-war expulsions in Central and Eastern
Europe. It displaced more than twenty million people in total.
These events have been variously described as population transfer,
ethnic cleansing or democide.
Many deaths were attributable to the flight and expulsions, with
estimates ranging from 500,000 to 2,000,000 - where modern estimates
are close to the lower 500,000 figure.
Many German civilians were also sent to internment and labor camps.
The policy was part of the geopolitical and ethnic reconfiguration of
postwar Europe; in part “spoils of war,” in part political changes in
Europe following the war and in part recompense for presumed
atrocities and ethnic cleansings that had occurred during the war.
The displacements occurred in three overlapping phases.
1st of which was the spontaneous flight and evacuation of Germans in
the face of the advancing Red Army from mid-1944 to 1945
2rd a disorganized expulsion of Germans immediately following the
German defeat
3rd a more organized expulsion following the Potsdam Agreement, which
redrew national borders and approved "orderly" and "humane" expulsions
of Germans from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
The major expulsions were complete by 1950, when the total number of
ethnic Germans still living in Eastern Europe was approximately 2.6
million, about 12% of the pre-war total.
Up to 3.2 million Germans died as a result of these explications.
Estimates of total deaths of German civilians have ranged from 500,000.
[*][**] to a maximum of 3.2 million people. Although the German
government's official estimate of deaths due to the flight and
expulsions has stood at 2.2 million for several decades, recent
analysis has led some historians to the conclusion that the actual
number of deaths attributable to the flight and expulsions was much
lower - in the range of 500,000 to 600,000. The higher figures (up to
3.2 million) typically include all deaths related to the 1939-1945 war
including those serving in the German Armed Forces. The number of
deaths and their causes remain a topic of tense debate among
historians.
Direct Footnotes:
* (English) Frank Biess (2006). "Review of Dagmar Barnouw, The War in
the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans" (pdf). H-
Net Reviews: 2.
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.cgi?path=288521147364241.
** a b Overmans, Rüdiger (1985). "Relevanz der Ergebnisse.
Vertreibungsverluste" (in German). Deutsche militärische Verluste im
Zweiten Weltkrieg (3 ed.). Oldenbourg
link -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Germans_after_World_War_II
https://www.amazon.com/Gruesome-Harvest-Ralph-Franklin-Keeling/dp/1366777530
Gruesome Harvest
by
Ralph
Franklin Keeling or see
Ralph Keeling ex Wiki
On May 8, 1945 the shooting ended in Europe. But, shockingly, the war against
Germany went on. Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill had decreed that the German
people must suffer-and suffer they did. Driven from their homes, looted of their
property, decimated by famine and disease, raped, robbed, and enslaved, millions
of Germans-most of them women and children-bore the brunt of what Time magazine
called "history's most terrifying peace". Gruesome Harvest was one of the first
books in America to sound the alarm against the victor's postwar war against the
Germans. Bristling with contemporary documentation, burning with humanitarian
and patriotic outrage, this informed, riveting classic dares to tell the
shameful story of how American and Allied policy makers undertook the political,
economic, and social destruction of the German people even as they presumed to
instruct them in "justice" and "democracy." Today, as the propaganda war against
the Germans wears on in the media and academic life, Gruesome Harvest, written
in 1947 by a courageous American, when the decimation of the German race was
still official U.S.-Allied policy, tells a vital story, one that must not be
suppressed or forgotten. "If war should come, whichever side may claim ultimate
victory, nothing is more certain that victor and vanquished alike would glean a
gruesome harvest of human misery and suffering."-Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain, July 31, 1939, to the House of Commons.