The ongoing blockade of Germany for almost three more years, resulting in deprivation and famine; the automatic arrest of millions, with hundreds of thousands dying in the process; the ethnic cleansing of Eastern Europe of many of its minorities – Germans and others; and the expulsion of some 12 million Germans from eastern Germany (Pomerania, Posen, Silesia, East and West Prussia) – these are only a few of the crimes committed by the victorious powers after the war.
By John Wear ∙ May 25, 2019
Allied Policies Force Starvation Capt. Albert R. Behnke, a U.S. Navy medical doctor, stated in regard to Germany: “From 1945 to the middle of 1948 one saw the probable collapse, disintegration and destruction of a whole nation. […] Germany was subject to physical and psychic trauma unparalleled in history.” Behnke concluded that the Germans under…
By John Wear ∙ May 13, 2019
The eastern victors continued to operate many formerly German concentration camps after World War II. Additional camps to intern ethnic Germans were established in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. The existence and operation of these postwar camps is a matter of major historical significance. While the population of the German concentration-camp system had grown…
By John Wear ∙ January 19, 2019
More Germans died after World War II than died during it. Since they didn't (and couldn't) fight back, it was cold-blooded murder – by the victorious Allies. The "good guys" who fought and won the "good war."
By Darius Cierpialkowski ∙ August 8, 2018
64 years after the end of World War Two,construction workers have unearthed a mass grave with the bones of 2,000 people near Marienburg Castle in Malbork,Poland,the former Marienburg. The evidence suggests the bodies are mostly of German civilians — men,women,and children — killed in early 1945 towards the end of the war.
By Jett Rucker ∙ September 4, 2015
Israel collects war criminals. Of course, in the course of its never-ending conflicts with its neighbors, it has produced its own abundant crops of home-grown, even native, war criminals, but here, I wish to concentrate on war criminals, real and supposed, imported from other lands whose crimes even antedate Israel itself—I am interested, in fact,…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ May 23, 2015
The reason why I have not repeated the oft-told tale of Nazi crimes against humanity is that it is already familiar to every American. It is our own record which is not known, and it seems high time that the victors began to search their own consciences. Freda Utley, The High Cost of Vengeance, p….
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ April 1, 2011
While still generally unheard of by the general public outside of Germany, it is a matter of little contention among historians that some 12 million ethnic Germans were expelled from Eastern Europe after World War Two. Some of these areas had been part of Germany, while in others, Germans had lived as ethnic minorities for…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ September 1, 2001
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Hardcover. 216 pp., index, photos, maps. Samuel Crowell is the pen name of an American writer who describes himself as a “moderate revisionist.” At the University of California (Berkeley) he studied philosophy, foreign languages…
By John Sack ∙ May 1, 2001
John Sack is one of America’s most eminent literary journalists. His reporting over more than half a century, from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, has appeared in such periodicals as Harper’s, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He has been a war correspondent in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Yugoslavia, as well as…
By Joseph Sobran ∙ August 1, 1998
Joseph Sobran is a nationally-syndicated columnist, lecturer, author, and editor of the monthly newsletter Sobran's (P.O. Box 1383, Vienna, VA 22183). This essay is reprinted from the August 1998 issue of Sobran's. Steven Spielberg's “Saving Private Ryan” is the most powerful movie I've seen in years. The opening sequence, already famous, shows the D-Day invasion…
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