Kicked Out of Their Own Country
Whiners about repatriation should remember the past. Jeffrey Turner
reviews a new book British people have for a long time been lectured by their political
masters that large-scale resettlement of foreign and non-white Commonwealth
immigrants is inhumane, barbaric and, not least, logistically impossible.
Those who have fallen for this propaganda would be well advised to read a new book that has recently appeared. It is Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City, and its author is Norman Davies.
The city is Berlin, and the focus of the book is upon the dark days there in
1945, as Germany was being crushed between the armies of the Soviet Union and the Western allies.
In the case of the German capital, it was of course the former who got there first - aided by the decision of western allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower to reject an attack plan suggested by Field Marshal Montgomery which could well have resulted in British and American troops beating them to it.
Davies' book was the subject of a revealing article by the author himself in the Sunday Times News Review of April 7th, which exposed certain truths well known to connoisseurs of World War II history but hitherto concealed from the public as a whole.
The article was titled Europe's forgotten war crimes, and
prefaced by the statement that:
"Millions of Germans were expelled from Eastern Europe at the end of the war in a huge exercise in ethnic cleansing that until now has been hidden from history..."
Said Davies:- There can be no doubt that the largest single act of ethnic cleansing in European history was carried out at the end of the second world war with the full approval of the western powers. ‘At the Potsdam conference of 1945, Britain and America did not hesitate to support the inter-allied plan for clearing the entire German population from lands earmarked for Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary or Romania.
The writer continued:
National self-determination" was intended to reward nations that had supported the allied cause. They (sic) were not on offer for the benefit of the Germans, Austrians or Hungarians who had fought on the wrong side. As a result the forcible expulsion of all Germans from Eastern Europe, which proceeded in stages from 1945 to 1947, assumed colossal proportions.
Germans ‘punished’
Davies makes clear that this operation, wholly unacceptable to ‘liberal’ opinion when it affected most other nations, was regarded as being justified when the victims were Germans.
The difference? Well, they had lost the war and had to be punished! Of course, had the Germans won the war and attempted a similar process of ethnic cleansing with defeated populations - that would have been a ‘war crime’. Liberal opinion bows to no-one in its expertise in the art of hypocrisy.
The Germans complied with this massive uprooting process because they had no choice. There just were not any international pressure groups to argue their case. In addition, said Davies:-
‘It is not hard to understand why post-war Germans were reluctant to discuss, let alone complain about, these terrible events.
Denazification schemes and allied re-education programmes insisted that Germans should be made aware not only of their acquiescence in Nazi crimes, but also of the rightness of the allied cause.’
In other words, we're the good guys and you're the bad guys, and that justifies everything!
Read the whole article: (You owe it to yourself!)
spearhead.com
The exact numbers are disputed. Yet by 1948 the total number of
Germans who had disappeared from their pre-war homes in the
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Official sources inGermany prefer figures
of 12 million expelled and 2 million to 3 million casualties..DEAD!
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This figure does not include millions with broken bones, or rapes of
children;
not to speak of broken hearts....or those that died of decease or forced starvation...
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The Germans were not the only ones to suffer; many Poles were victims of the same process.
In compensation for their being uprooted from Eastern Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union,
they were given lands that had previously been German.
Poland was, in effect, picked up and moved
a hundred or so miles westwards, though becoming smaller, overall, than it had been in 1939.
The
former German city of Breslau was cleared of Germans and settled mainly by Poles, thereupon becoming
Wroclaw Stettin, subject to the same process, was renamed Szczecin and so on.
Germans punished
Davies makes clear that this operation, wholly unacceptable to liberal opinion when it affected most
other nations, was regarded as being justified when the victims were Germans. The difference? Well,
they had lost the war and had to be punished!
Of course, had the Germans won the war and attempted
a similar process of ethnic cleansing with defeated populations - that would have been a war crime.
Liberal opinion bows to no-one in its expertise in the art of hypocrisy. The Germans complied with this
massive uprooting process because they had no choice. There just were not any international pressure
groups to argue their case. In addition, said Davies:- It is not hard to understand why post-war Germans
were reluctant to discuss, let alone complain about, these terrible events.
Denazification schemes and
allied re-education programmes insisted that Germans should be made aware not only of their
acquiescence in Nazi crimes, but also of the rightness of the allied cause. In other words, we're the good
guys and you're the bad guys, and that justifies everything! Davies continued.
The exercise was
not psychologically compatible with alternative scenarios in which Germans figured prominently
among the victims. Criticism of the Soviet Union, in particular, was so reminiscent of Nazi propaganda,
which had shamelessly played on the Bolshevik threat, that critics could easily be denounced as
neo-fascist extremists.
In a moral climate of overwhelming guilt and disorientation, most Germans
learnt to suppress their feelings and to avoid sensitive subjects. Hence it is only now at the start
of the 21st century that their story can properly be told...
Mass rape of women:
The expulsions of these millions of Germans from their homelands, while given
a quasi-legal status by the decisions of Potsdam, were accompanied - and indeed preceded - by rape
of their women by the soldiers of the Red Army on an unprecedented scale.
This is now being
acknowledged in a number of new books and newspaper articles - in one case drawing an indignant
retort from the Russian ambassador in London denying it ever happened. This is a quite understandable
reaction prompted by a patriotism and national pride sadly lackinginmost present-day British diplomats
.
However, it flies in the face of a vast array of factual evidence. Stalin had indeed encouraged his
conquering troops to take German women as they pleased as part of the spoils of victory
(German military personnel in the occupied lands, on the other hand, were strictly enjoined not to
engage in sexual assaults of local women and were promptly shot if they disobeyed).
"Uhm, excuse me if I puke over this bit of bullshit"
Said Davies:-
Its [the Red Army's] policy was to shoot all German men and rape all females irrespective of nationality.
NKVD (Soviet police) officials raised the alarm in Moscow, reporting that the Red Army's men
were gang-raping Russian women whom they had just liberated from Nazi camps.
In other words, open season on Germans and other foreigners, but not on one's own women! This,
of course, was all played down at the time and for many years afterwards. Principles pushed to
background Of all this ethnic cleansing, including that of the Poles, Davies protests:-
Surely more could have been expected of the western democracies that were busy proclaiming that
the war had been fought for freedom and justice? At the same time, western leaders were putting
their names to documents that threw some of their allies, such as the Poles, to the wolves and which
laid the defeated enemy open to unbridled revenge. Few people objected to the vile contention that
all Germans, innocent or guilty, should pay for Nazi crimes. Such was the demonisation of Germany
and such the blind admiration for ˜Uncle Joe whose armies had performed so heroically, that all our
more serious principles were pushed into the ackground.
Of course, as the better informed have known for a long time, World war II in reality had little to do
with ˜principles and everything to do with questions of power and money - as the recent slaughter
of 300,000 women and children in Iraq have to do with oil. Had there been, from the British point of view,
some concrete power-objective in the whole business, an objective concerned with the defence or
furtherance of vital British interests, all the criminal acts arising out of the war and the hatreds
engendered in it might - the rape apart - have some slender rationale in the way of realpolitik. That
could certainly be said in the Russians' case, but not at all in our own. The war impoverished us,
bankrupted us and resulted in the catastrophic diminution of our status among the nations. And at the
end of it all, its prosecutors could not even lay solid claim to the moral high ground - not at least now,
when the smoke of wartime and post-war propaganda has cleared and the light of truth is shining through.
Terrible things were done in and after World War II - by both sides and with people on both sides
as victims. Let's not go on deluding ourselves that all the crimes were committed by one side, for the
overwhelming weight of evidence refutes it. And after Britain's complicity in a huge process of forced
resettlement - resettlement, moreover, of people from their own homelands, homelands whose soil
their ancestors had tilled for centuries - let us hear no more nonsense about it being inhumane, least
of all impossible, to repatriate from our own country populations of comparatively recent arrival,
who came of their own free choice and about whose landing here we have never been consulted. |
