Thread: The European Atrocity You Never Heard About

The European Atrocity You Never Heard About

In the largest episode of forced migration in history, millions of German-speaking civilians were sent to Germany from Czechoslovakia (above) and other European countries after World War II by order of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union.

The screams that rang throughout the darkened cattle car crammed with deportees, as it jolted across the icy Polish countryside five nights before Christmas, were Dr. Loch's only means of locating his patient. The doctor, formerly chief medical officer of a large urban hospital, now found himself clambering over piles of baggage, fellow passengers, and buckets used as toilets, only to find his path blocked by an old woman who ignored his request to move aside. On closer examination, he discovered that she had frozen to death.

The European Atrocity You Never Heard About - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

I was sure I would find this sentence in the article. It is almost as if it is mandatory.

It is important to note that the expulsions are in no way to be compared to the genocidal Nazi campaign that preceded them.