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An Eye for an Eye: The Story of Jews Who Sought Revenge for the Holocaust

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John Sack has done the truth-loving community a great favor by publishing this thoroughly researched book. It deals with the manner of how the transition from German to Polish rule was effected in the areas ceded to Poland by the Allies. It is well known that Hitler had started "ethnic cleansing" of Poles from the "Warthegau" (areas annexed after the Poish campaign in 1939) and one can hardly wonder that the Poles most heartily reciprocated after Hitler's defeat. In view of the abundance of books about the Holocaust it is to Mr. Sack's credit to have shown to the world that Germans were also victims of Polish and Jewish revenge, when the opportunity arose. No past history of misdeeds was necessary, that they had been born of German parents sufficed. The fact that the author had to overcome a highly effective censorship before he was able to get the book published bodes ill for our society, which is so fond of its purported "freedom of speech." I am convinced that if Mr. Sack had not been Jewish the book would, in all probability, never have seen the light of day. If it had been self-published it would probably never have been reviewed and relegated to obscurity in spite of its intrinsic value. That Jews were in leading positions in the Polish State Security Office immediately after the war and that a number of them conducted themselves in an inhuman manner should surprise no one, unless one believes that Jews have transcended the bounds of the human race and joined the realm of the good angels. When it comes to war the worst of human instincts are released on both sides of the front. It needs to be remembered also that only the armies had stopped shooting on VE day while private wars, due to accumulated hatred by the oppressed, had continued for some time thereafter. In order to avoid another Holocaust we have to deal with the basic human phenomenon of hate, which cannot be legislated out of existence. Moralising will not do either. The roots of conflict must be exposed and intelligently dealt with by considering the grievances of both sides. This Mr. Sack has done in an admirable manner and An Eye For An Eye should be used in Holocaust education courses to show the universality of evil.

A professor at Harvard said that "every" German was responsible for the Nazi atrocities. After reading this book I ask him is every Jew responsible for the atrocities they committed on innocent German civilians?

Congratulations to John Sack. I have read this book borrowed from someone and I have to have it myself. Is there any way the publisher will publish it again? I want to leave this exciting reading to my children and I also know about scores of my Polish compatriotes as well as Germans and Czechs in Australia, who are truth hangry and who would buy this book immediately if available. As a Pole of origin I am glad, that someone from the Jewish community took up the challenge, since the tragedy of many Polish officers and soldiers from the Home Underground Army was, that they have fought Germans during the war (having among other goals to protect also Jews), yet after the war they found themselves in the same prisons run by Jews as German criminals. I suppose Mr John Sack suffered much himself first facing the truth, secondly probably he was isolated from his Jewish friends and singled out as a black sheep. Whatever happened, Mr John Sack, our warmest feelings are with you.

Horrifying account of atrocities committed against German civilians by Jews in the aftermath of World War II. Long-suppressed story -- by a fearless Jewish author and noted journalist -- of how Jews of the Polish Communist "Office of State Security" killed and brutally mistreated many tens of thousands of German men, women and children in concentration camps and prisons in conquered German territories. This story was featured on a "60 Minutes" broadcast segment. Antony Polonsky, Prof. of E. European Jewish History at Brandeis University, comments on An Eye for An Eye: "... Extremely gripping and compelling account of the appalling events which accompanied the end of the war and the expulsion of the Germans ... impossible to put down ... a major contribution to our understanding

I want to thank John Sack for his courage in researching this difficult topic. I have Jewish friends who admire John Sack as much as I do.

I myself had an American mother and a German father and spent my childhood in Germany during the Second World War. Then I married a German whose father (who was not a Nazi) died in one of the Polish camps after the war under mysterious circumstances, simply because he lived in that area. John Sack's research helped many sorrowing families to find out what actually happened to their relatives.

Millions of Germans still suffer guilt and sorrow for the holocaust but do not know how to express it because they were told over and over again that words can't express the dreadfulness of what their compatriots did. There are many memorials. There is a memorial march every year at Dachau. Children in Berlin made a wall of bricks with the names of all the Jews who lived in their neighbourhood. Teachers try to help children to come to terms with the terrible deeds of their grandparents. John Sack's book is a revelation in many ways. He understands the desire of a holocaust survivor for revenge, but it becomes evident that revenge will not heal the bruised, suffering human soul. Hatred creates more hatred. So we must know the facts in order that such things don't happen again.

I have lived in East Germany as a child in 1945 and was aware of the rabid brutality of the victors. Rapes, mass killings, and disrespect for basic human rights were a daily standard. - German misdeeds could not have been much worse. It does not surprise me that conditions behind the Oder-Neisse line was truly barbaric. John Sack has documented his sources with great thoroughness. I have no doubt that his description of the 1255 Concentration Camps in which thousands of innocent German civilians were murdered, differs little from those atrocities handed out by Eichmann, Mengele, and Heydrich. According to Sack, most of these camps were headed by Jewish administrators. Many are alive today in Israel and the USA.

The Allies of WWII have conspired to cover up these atrocities in a big way. John Sack is a courageous and tenacious writer.

This fantastic piece of investigative journalism brought howls of impotent rage against its author, a Jewish writer, who dared to discuss the Jewish revenge on the German and Polish civilians right after the end of WW2. One of these executioners, Shlomo Morel, still lives in peace in Israel despite the Polish government's efforts to have him extradited and tried for genocide. A must read for anybody who doesn't passively accept the whitewashed story of the 20th-century East European Jewry.

This is a well researched, well written, book, and a very compelling read. I won't reiterate what the other reviewers have said, but would like to point out a couple of biases in the book.

By picking and choosing his subjects (a few out of thousands of possible candidates), as well as adding his own rhetorical slant, Sack turns the book into a story of Jewish redemption. Really, I think Zionists and Neonazis will come away with their own polar opposite reactons to this book no matter what, but this may affect the moderate reader (although I think the majority of it's readers come from either the far right or the far left).

I would recommend "A Terrible Revenge" over this book if you want an introduction to the Expulsion, because it is unbiased, and because it covers the whole expulsion, not just the actions in Poland. Also, "A Terrible Revenge" does a great job explaining the social situation after WWI. This I found most interesting because most history books start WWII at Hitler's rise, but really the Germans had legitimate claims all over central europe.

But keeping these things in mind, this book does add a great human touch and I highly recommend it.

A telling account of the men and women who worked for the Office of State Security during and just after the Second World War and who were responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity, directed primarily against innocent Poles, Germans and Ukrainians. Many of these killers subsequently escaped to the USA, Canada, Israel and western Europe, and they remain in our midst, unpunished for their evil. Just recently one of the most infamous of their number, Shlomo Morel, a communist concentration camp Commandant, was discovered in Israel, but that state won't extradite him to stand trial in Poland for his crimes, rationalizing this by saying that the statute of limitations has expired! Just as no democracy should ever harbour Nazi war criminals in its midst, so too we must root out and punish those guilty of war crimes committed under Soviet tutelage. To refuse to do so, or to turn a blind eye on these mass murderers' deeds, would be to utterly invalidate any pretence of justice. This book belongs in the library of everyone interested in bringing all war criminals to justice, regardless of who their victims were, or who they are. A book that must be reprinted!

This book describes the atrocities that were perpetrated against the Germans living in Poland when the Soviet army "liberated" Poland. 1255 concentration camps were set-up resulting in the death of one and one half million Germans. At the end of this covert Holocaust, Poland was rid of all Germans. The persons who were involved in this crime never had to face justice.

Some say we must never forget. In order to do that we must study all the holocausts, not just one.

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