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NEMESIS AT POTSDAM: The Anglo-Americans and the Expulsion of the Germans. Revised edition

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This is a topic that myth makers like Stephen Ambrose would never have the courage to touch. Alfred De Zayas has had the deepest human decency to reveal to the world one of the greatest crimes committed by the Allies: the genocide of between 2,100,000 and 6,000,000 Eastern European Germans and the forced removal of millions of others from their ancestoral homes. Potsdam was where the Western Allies alloud a second Munich, this time with Stalin, by allowing the German men, women, children and babies of East Prussia, Pomerania, East Brandenburg, and Silesia to have their homes and oftentimes lives turned over to the Soviet Union and the vicious vengeful Poles and Czechs. This is the story of one of history's worst acts of barbarity and genocide. This was a shamefull and purely evil act that led to the untold suffering and agony. And it was committed with the sad permision of the Anglo-American Alliance that had proclaimed itself against genocide and expansion during the war and then had the audacity to proclaim the phrase "Never Again," even while they aloud little German girls to be raped and helpless babies to starve.

This book is about the expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War, whose impacts still last in the present of the 21st century. In this book, the effects of the decisions of the Allies at the Potsdam conference are described in a detailed way as well as the tragedy of these decisions. In a very good documented and researched as well as extensive manner, the author characterize the problem of the expulsion which based on the decisions of the "well-regulated and human" resettlement of 16 million German and led to one of the biggest postwar period crimes in which more then 2 million German lost their lives.
Alfred M. de Zayas is able to illustrate in an objective way the facts of the holocaust on the German independent of any ideology and without putting the blame on so. nor looking for excuses so that a dark but fast forgotten chapter of the 2nd World War will bear in remembrance. This topic is most times taboo but it is necessary to deal with that subject and to accomplish comprehension which is useful for underlining the efforts for peace.
This book prompt me to do some research on that subject but also to other related documentations of the 2nd World War among other things of de Zayas. He gave me understanding but also the impulsion to get closer to that topic. This book is a must to understand the German history completely and to be able to deal with that. The first German version of that book was published in 1977 under the title: Die Anglo-Amerikaner und die Vertreibung der Deutschen, Vorgeschichte, Verlauf, Folgen.

I find this a very exhaustive and reasoned review of this historical event. Few Americans know about any of this, and few would care, anyway, because, "the Germans deserved it". I guess that the US should return Texas to Mexico, by Polish logic. But who's kidding whom? Might makes right, it's not a good idea to lose a world war. My hope now is simply for reconciliation with Poland, and subsequent German investment in the East. The author presents a very balanced account, and does not ignore German wrongdoing. I wish more people cared about history and learned from it. Can anybody tell me if even Germans are aware or care about this topic? I'd welcome a response

Abraham Lincoln once said that "history is an agreed upon set of lies": I believe every word. The atrocities that were committed by the Allies to helpless civilians should never be forgotten and should be included in modern textbooks, lest we be damned to repeat such ethnic cleansing. Let us see history for what it is, not what others wish us to believe. I applaud Mr. De Zayas for having the intestinal fortitude to step forward and offer this intriguing account of the horrors of revenge.

This book is about the expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War, whose impacts still last in the present of the 21st century. In this book, the effects of the decisions of the Allies at the Potsdam conference are described in a detailed way as well as the tragedy of these decisions. In a very good documented and researched as well as extensive manner, the author characterize the problem of the expulsion which based on the decisions of the "well-regulated and human" resettlement of 16 million German and led to one of the biggest postwar period crimes in which more then 2 million German lost their lives.
Alfred M. de Zayas is able to illustrate in an objective way the facts of the holocaust on the German independent of any ideology and without putting the blame on so. nor looking for excuses so that a dark but fast forgotten chapter of the 2nd World War will bear in remembrance. This topic is most times taboo but it is necessary to deal with that subject and to accomplish comprehension which is useful for underlining the efforts for peace.
This book prompt me to do some research on that subject but also to other related documentations of the 2nd World War among other things of de Zayas. He gave me understanding but also the impulsion to get closer to that topic. This book is a must to understand the German history completely and to be able to deal with that. The first German version of that book was published in 1977 under the title: Die Anglo-Amerikaner und die Vertreibung der Deutschen, Vorgeschichte, Verlauf, Folgen.

This book is about the expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War, whose impacts still last in the present of the 21st century. In this book, the effects of the decisions of the Allies at the Potsdam conference are described in a detailed way as well as the tragedy of these decisions. In a very good documented and researched as well as extensive manner, the author characterize the problem of the expulsion which based on the decisions of the "well-regulated and human" resettlement of 16 million German and led to one of the biggest postwar period crimes in which more then 2 million German lost their lives.
Alfred M. de Zayas is able to illustrate in an objective way the facts of the holocaust on the German independent of any ideology and without putting the blame on so. nor looking for excuses so that a dark but fast forgotten chapter of the 2nd World War will bear in remembrance. This topic is most times taboo but it is necessary to deal with that subject and to accomplish comprehension which is useful for underlining the efforts for peace.
This book prompt me to do some research on that subject but also to other related documentations of the 2nd World War among other things of de Zayas. He gave me understanding but also the impulsion to get closer to that topic. This book is a must to understand the German history completely and to be able to deal with that. The first German version of that book was published in 1977 under the title: Die Anglo-Amerikaner und die Vertreibung der Deutschen, Vorgeschichte, Verlauf, Folgen.

It is sad that what DeZayas describes in this book is not better known. It is anything BUT a baseless canard that 2 million Germans were murdered and starved to death in the concentration camps and railroad boxcars of post war Poland and Soviet occupied NE Prussia. 15,000 million people (mostly women, children and the elderly) were forced from their homes and robbed of everything including the clothes on their backs. Millions of women were raped and gang raped 30 times over - not only in Polish-annexed Germany but also in Hungary and Romania. DeZayas is a brave and decent individual for covering this material in several books. America should grow up and admit the costs of Roosevelt's hideous friendship with Stalin. This book should be required reading in schools that cover the Holocaust or any other matters relating to WWII.

This book is about the expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War, whose impacts still last in the present of the 21st century. In this book, the effects of the decisions of the Allies at the Potsdam conference are described in a detailed way as well as the tragedy of these decisions. In a very good documented and researched as well as extensive manner, the author characterize the problem of the expulsion which based on the decisions of the "well-regulated and human" resettlement of 16 million German and led to one of the biggest postwar period crimes in which more then 2 million German lost their lives.
Alfred M. de Zayas is able to illustrate in an objective way the facts of the holocaust on the German independent of any ideology and without putting the blame on so. nor looking for excuses so that a dark but fast forgotten chapter of the 2nd World War will bear in remembrance. This topic is most times taboo but it is necessary to deal with that subject and to accomplish comprehension which is useful for underlining the efforts for peace.
This book prompt me to do some research on that subject but also to other related documentations of the 2nd World War among other things of de Zayas. He gave me understanding but also the impulsion to get closer to that topic. This book is a must to understand the German history completely and to be able to deal with that. The first German version of that book was published in 1977 under the title: Die Anglo-Amerikaner und die Vertreibung der Deutschen, Vorgeschichte, Verlauf, Folgen.

This book is about the expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War, whose impacts still last in the present of the 21st century. In this book, the effects of the decisions of the Allies at the Potsdam conference are described in a detailed way as well as the tragedy of these decisions. In a very good documented and researched as well as extensive manner, the author characterize the problem of the expulsion which based on the decisions of the "well-regulated and human" resettlement of 16 million German and led to one of the biggest postwar period crimes in which more then 2 million German lost their lives.
Alfred M. de Zayas is able to illustrate in an objective way the facts of the holocaust on the German independent of any ideology and without putting the blame on so. nor looking for excuses so that a dark but fast forgotten chapter of the 2nd World War will bear in remembrance. This topic is most times taboo for German. A lot of German still suffering (physically and psycological) from that history and they fear to be considered as a NAZI if mentioned that issue but it is necessary to deal with that subject and to accomplish comprehension which is useful for underlining the efforts for peace. This book prompt me to do some research on that subject but also to other related documentations of the 2nd World War among other things of de Zayas. He gave me understanding but also the impulsion to get closer to that topic. This book is a must to understand the German history completely and to be able to deal with that. The first German version of that book was published in 1977 under the title: Die Anglo-Amerikaner und die Vertreibung der Deutschen, Vorgeschichte, Verlauf, Folgen.

This is a heartbreaking work that is solidly documented and courageously exposes the ethnic based genocide that was the "Expulsions." Millions of innocent German men, women, children, and babies were murdered in some of the most disgusting ways imaginable during and after the closing days of the Second World War. The perpetrators, the Soviet army, Sudetenland invading Czechs, and "Oder-Neisse" invading Poles, showed the shameless lack of humanity that they possessed and the genocidal double standard they showed to their victims. The Western Allies were also responsible for the mass rapes, tortures, and genocidal "ethnic cleansings" of Germans in Eastern Europe, for Truman and the British Government sanction such a purely savage slaughter at the Potsdam Conference. (...) Victor Gollancz was right, these atrocities MUST be remembered and never forgotten. Dr. De Zayas is a man who gives honor to innocents caught in history's worst nightmare.