Renowned German author says that the expulsion of Germans after WW2 was the largest ethnic cleansing ever to take place in Europe

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Posted by Themetalin

29 Comments

  1. MysteriousAndLesbian on

    You gave him attention. He won what he wanted. Just ignore shit like that as people will say random bullshit just to get views and attention

  2. The same fate awaits the russians after this stupid war is over. If you use your people living in foreign countries as a Casus Belli for war, prepare for the ethnic cleansing of said people.

  3. Maybe they never heard it happen, because they were more interested to hear about something else that occured during that time period? I wonder what could have that been

  4. i seem to recall an even greater genocide taking place before this, wonder if those two are somehow related

  5. Germans like to cry about it a lot apparently.

    When I was at (a German) school, the day we talked about this the teacher was like “Oh these poor people, were forced out of their homes”, like wtf? Didn’t we just had the German occupancy and their doings as topic for the last month? The fuck did they expect back then? “Haha sorry we wanted to kill the entire east European population, but now we’re friends”…

  6. Maybe don’t start a war against the whole world and it would not happen? Totally optional.

  7. Definietely many people in Western Europe have never heard about WWII and how did germany start it invading Poland, killing millions jews in gas chambers, russians and other slavic nations not only with bullets but with starvation and basically everyone around Europe. Thank you for reminding us about that.

  8. This is textbook propaganda post.

    That he is a renowned author is completely irrelevant, but they hope you overlook that or misread it as historian or that he somehow speaks for Germans in general. Also, he doesn’t seem to be very renowned when you actually search him up.

    Account is one year old. Comment and post history hidden. Nothing in the easy to copy text that you could search on. But tons of post and comment upvotes. Connect the dots. Report it and get it removed.

  9. OK, I’ll be devil’s advocate.

    While I would’ve used “forced migration”, technically it would fit into definition of “ethnic cleansing”.

    That all said, for me this is one of the very few “bad things that ended up sort of good in the long term” that the Soviets did.

    One of the leading causes of conflicts in the interwar period was “liberation” of people of your ethnicity/nationality living in another country, or rather more likely taking pieces of another country with this as an excuse (hell, we ourselves had multiple conflicts with Germany, Lithuanians and Czechs like that)

    Not to mention internal conflicts between people in same country belonging to different ethnicities or nationalities

    So with each country being more homogeneous, those conflicts wouldn’t be as common anymore, which we did see

    Oh also they lost the war

  10. NamelessKeeper_89 on

    Yeah, MOVING 14 million people from one place to another is a bigger ethnic cleansing than KILLING 6 million Poles and Jews and moving the next 2 (if I recall correctly) from eastern lands after war. The world we live in…

    Yes, it was a tragedy for those people. They lost their homes, left graves of their families, a lot of young women suffer rape from Red Army soldiers, many died from injuries and exhaustion, etc.

    Yet I can feel sorry for people that supported their Nazi regime and all the atrocities they committed. They kept what is most important: their lives, when over 10 million people didn’t because of their fathers, sons, and brothers actions and inaction.

    And I will say the same thing about Americans if they will let Trump and his goons turn the USA into a new nazi regime. No sympathy from me.