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 Dwight D. Eisenhower ∙ October 18, 1945
18 October 1945 At the conclusion of World War II more than fifteen million Germans were driven from their homes in central and eastern Europe. It has been estimated that 2,111,000 Germans died directly as a result of these mass expulsions. The primary reference on this subject is: Alfred M. de Zayas, Nemesis at Potsdam:…
By C. O'Neill ∙ November 22, 1945
At the conclusion of World War II more than fifteen million Germans were driven from their homes in central and eastern Europe. It has been estimated that 2,111,000 Germans died directly as a result of these mass expulsions. The primary reference on this subject is: Alfred M. de Zayas, “Nemesis at Potsdam: The Expulsion of…
By New York Times ∙ March 25, 1990
An East German newspaper today reported the discovery of mass graves of thousands of people, including civilians, who died at a former Soviet prison camp set up after World War II. The dead included Nazi war prisoners, including members of the paramilitary [sic] SS, officials of the Nazi Party and soldiers in Hitler's army, the…
By New York Times ∙ September 24, 1992
Investigators digging at the site of a Soviet-run prison camp in the former East Germany have uncovered mass graves containing the bodies of 12,500 people, the Brandenburg state government said today. The camp was at Sachsenhausen, north of Berlin, and was open from 1945 to 1950. Victims were said to have included real and supposed…
By Anthony Kubek ∙ October 1, 1989
The Morgenthau Diaries consist of 900 volumes located at Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York. As a consultant to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, I was assigned to examine all documents dealing with Germany, particularly ones related to the Morgenthau Plan for the destruction of Germany following the Second World War. The Subcommittee was…
By Ralph F. Keeling ∙ January 1, 1947
Senator Homer E. Capeheart of Indiana in an address before the United States Senate on February 5, 1946: “The fact can no longer be suppressed, namely, the fact that it has been and continues to be, the deliberate policy of a confidential and conspirational clique within the policy-making circles of this government to draw and…
By Alfred M. De Zayas ∙ January 1, 1988
[About the expulsion of the Germans from the East] A flight of bad conscience? Another argument which is frequently heard is that Germans fled out of feelings of guilt, anticipating Red Army vengeance for the crimes committed by the Nazis in the Soviet Union. Of course, a number of functionaries knew about the crimes of…
By Alfred M. De Zayas ∙ January 1, 1988
At the edge of the town, on the left side of the road, stands the large inn 'Weisser Krug' … In the farmyard further down the road stood a cart, to which four naked women were nailed through their hands in a cruciform position. Behind the Weisser Krug towards Gumbinnen is a square with a…
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