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

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Description for Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War Paperback. Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. This is a study of the largest recorded episode of what we now call "ethnic cleansing". Num Pages: 504 pages, 12 black-&-white illustrations + 1 map. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLW3; HBWQ; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 35. Weight in Grams: 656.

More than 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe were driven from their homes in the wake of WWII, yet barely anyone noticed or remembers

Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable—between 12,000,000 and 14,000,000 civilians, most of them women and children—and the losses horrifying—at least 500,000 people, and perhaps many more, died while detained in former concentration camps, while locked in trains en route, or after arriving in Germany exhausted, malnourished, and homeless. ... Read more

Based mainly on archival records of the countries that carried out the forced migrations and of the international humanitarian organizations that tried but failed to prevent the disastrous results, Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War is an authoritative and objective account. It examines an aspect of European history that few have wished to confront, exploring how the expulsions were conceived, planned, and executed and how their legacy reverberates throughout central Europe today. The book is an important study of the largest recorded episode of what we now call "ethnic cleansing," and it may also be the most significant untold story of the Second World War.

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Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
504
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
644g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300198201
SKU
V9780300198201
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-37

About R. M. Douglas
R. M. Douglas is associate professor of history, Colgate University. He is the author of four previous books, including most recently Architects of the Resurrection: Ailtiri na hAiseirghe and the Fascist "New Order" in Ireland.

Reviews for Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War
"This is an important book, deserving of the widest readership."—Max Hastings, Sunday Times "Douglas provides a fascinating glimpse of the backstage of the Nazi war effort, as hundreds of thousands were shifted from Poland and the Baltic states as part of a forced Germanisation policy that sheer lack of preparation doomed to failure."—Benedicte Williams, Budapest Times "The ... Read more

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