The European Atrocity You Never Heard About
June 14th, 2012Via: The Chronicle of Higher Education:
What was different about the deportation of Loch and his fellow passengers, however, was that it took place by order of the United States and Britain as well as the Soviet Union, nearly two years after the declaration of peace.
Between 1945 and 1950, Europe witnessed the largest episode of forced migration, and perhaps the single greatest movement of population, in human history. Between 12 million and 14 million German-speaking civilians—the overwhelming majority of whom were women, old people, and children under 16—were forcibly ejected from their places of birth in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and what are today the western districts of Poland. As The New York Times noted in December 1945, the number of people the Allies proposed to transfer in just a few months was about the same as the total number of all the immigrants admitted to the United States since the beginning of the 20th century. They were deposited among the ruins of Allied-occupied Germany to fend for themselves as best they could. The number who died as a result of starvation, disease, beatings, or outright execution is unknown, but conservative estimates suggest that at least 500,000 people lost their lives in the course of the operation.
GOP Slams Effort To Study WWII Internment Camps in U.S.
A plan to study the treatment of Europeans interned by the United States government during World War II is languishing in the Senate following unexpectedly strong opposition from GOP lawmakers.
A narrow majority of Republican senators, led by Jeff Sessions of Alabama, rejected a proposal to form a congressional commission examining the wartime experiences of Axis citizens and European-born Americans, thousands of whom were held in American internment camps. Co-sponsored by Democratic Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa,
http://forward.com/articles/10953/gop-slams-effort-to-study-wwii-internment-camps-in/
This one is about German-Americans interned in the US (Italian-Americans were also interned):
WWII Violations of German American Civil Liberties by the US Government
http://www.foitimes.com/gasummary.htm
There are also a number of books on the subject, one of the first I heard of being James Bacque’s Other Losses:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1551681919/ref=nosim/cryptogoncom-20
and
An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945 John Sack
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465042147/ref=nosim/cryptogoncom-20
If you go to the Amazon links, you’ll find others