Orderly and Humane : The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War Orderly and Humane : The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War

Orderly and Humane : The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War

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Publisher Description

The award-winning history of twelve million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: "a major achievement" (New Republic).

Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between twelve and fourteen million civilians, most of them women and children. And the losses were horrifying: at least five hundred thousand people, and perhaps many more, died while detained in former concentration camps, locked in trains, or after arriving in Germany malnourished, and homeless.

In this authoritative and objective account, historian R. M. Douglas examines an aspect of European history that few have wished to confront, exploring how the forced migrations were conceived, planned, and executed, and how their legacy reverberates throughout central Europe today. The first comprehensive history of this immense manmade catastrophe, Orderly and Humane is an important study of the largest recorded episode of what we now call "ethnic cleansing." It may also be the most significant untold story of World War II.

GENRE
History
NARRATOR
PW
Paul Woodson
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
20:47
hr min
RELEASED
2022
December 13
PUBLISHER
Tantor Media, Inc
SIZE
1
GB

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