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 Richard H. Curtiss ∙ September 1, 1997
Richard H. Curtiss is executive editor of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (PO Box 53062, Washington, DC 20009). This report is reprinted from the June-July 1997 issue. When he retired from the US foreign service, Curtiss was chief inspector of the US Information Agency. He is also the author of A Changing Image:…
By John Cobden ∙ March 1, 1995
One of the most prominent camps featured in the early years of the Holocaust extermination campaign was Dachau. Stories abounded about the many thousands who were exterminated there in gas chambers. Members of a us congressional committee stood inside the alleged gas chamber where so many had died, and had their picture taken for the…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1995
Germany's cultural-political establishment no longer orders the destruction of “socially dangerous” literature in public bonfires. Today it resorts to more modern, environment-friendly methods to destroy “undesirable” books. In February 1995, thousands of copies of a revisionist work detailing postwar Jewish crimes against Germans were destroyed, following bitter attacks by Germany's cultural establishment. The book, An…
By Andrew Gray ∙ January 1, 1995
In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent, by Timothy Garton Ash. New York: Random House, 1993. 680 pages. $27.50. ISBN 0394-55711-5. “Ende gut, alles gut” (“All's well that end's well”). What more can one say of the tortuous decades that led to German unification. A lot, of course, and Timothy Garton Ash says it…
By Theodore J. O'Keefe ∙ March 1, 1994
The Wanderers, by Ingrid Rimland. Stockton, Calif.: Crystal Books (2731 Lost Creek Court, Stockton, CA 95207), 1988. Softcover. 304 pages. Most Journal readers are at least sketchily aware of the vast and criminal expulsions of more than 14 million Germans from their ancestral homes in the heart of Europe, planned, ordered, and facilitated by American,…
By Robert Clive ∙ March 1, 1994
The German Expellees: Victims in War and Peace, by Alfred-Maurice de Zayas. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993. 200 pages. 24 Photographs. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ISBN 0-312-09097-8. (Available from the IHR for $35.00, plus $2.00 shipping.) Robert Clive is the pen name of an American specialist of the political, diplomatic and military history of…
By Theodore J. O'Keefe ∙ January 1, 1994
Silesian Inferno: War Crimes of the Red Army on its March into Silesia in 1945, by Karl Friedrich Grau. Introduction by Prof. Ernst Deuerlein. Valley Forge, Penn.: Landpost Press, 1992. Hardcover. 210 pages. Charts. Maps. Bibliography. ISBN 1-880881-09-8. (Available from the IHR for $19.95, plus $2.00 shipping.) This work – a re-issue of a 1970…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ April 1, 1992
In the course of the 1960's and the beginning of the '70's, Robert Faurisson began an investigation of the Purge (French: Epuration), limited to those summary executions which took place in the summer of 1944 in a part of Charente known as Charente Limousine, or Confolentais. This meticulous study was to have been published under…
By Daniel D. Desjardins ∙ October 1, 1991
I was in Ohio on August 17, 1987 when news came of the death of Rudolf Hess at Spandau Prison. Within several days, it was reported that Hess had committed suicide, a version endorsed several weeks later by his Allied jailers (the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France) in official communiques: Rudolf…
By Peter H. Oppenheimer ∙ October 1, 1986
This paper is an examination of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft (SL), a West German organization of Sudeten Germans expelled by Czechoslovakia from their homeland after World War II. This essay will place particular emphasis on the political activities of the SL. The intention of the essay is to enlighten the reader to the workings and evolution…
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