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

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by R. M. Douglas


  Slavonic and East European Review

  Socialist Commentary Spectator

  Der Spiegel

  Sudetendeutsche Zeitung

  Svobodné noviný

  The Times

  Tribune

  Tygodnik Powszechny

  Wall Street Journal

  Washington Post

  Die Welt

  Wprost

  Yorkshire Post

  Die Zeit

  INDEX

  ACC agreement, 124–28, 243; Housing Law, 308; and Hungary [ACC(H)], 166–68, 207, 209, 210, 212–14; and numbers, 198, 201–6, 207, 209, 210, 212–14, 220–22; and “organized expulsions,” 125, 160, 162, 164, 166–68; and resettlements, 304, 305, 306, 308

  Ackermann, Volker, 354

  Adam, Joseph, 340

  Adamski, Bishop Stanisław, 109, 260

  Adam v. Czech Republic, 340

  Adenauer, Konrad, 316–21

  Adorno, Theodor, 369

  Africa, forced migration in, 67, 336

  Ahonen, Pertti, 320

  Alexander II, tsar of Russia, 39

  Alexander the Great, 67

  Allen, Denis, 173

  Allied Control Council, 111, 124, 363; and ACC agreement, see ACC agreement

  Alversdorf transit camp, 170, 177

  Aly, Götz, 52

  Amin, Idi, 336

  Anderson, Carol, 335

  Angly, Edward, 107

  Arburg, Adrian von, 128

  Arciszewski, Tomasz, 86

  Armenians: forced migration of, 68; genocide of, 70, 329

  Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, 17, 21

  Arndt, Josefa, 250

  Asia, forced migration in, 67, 68

  Atatürk (Kemal Mustafa), 70, 329

  Atlantic Charter (1941), 86

  Attlee, Clement, 80, 88–89, 151, 288

  Auschwitz concentration camp, 1, 127, 134, 138, 144, 145, 235

  Austria: and Anschluss, 13, 14, 41; deportations to, 76, 99, 113, 117, 122–23; and ethnic Germans, 46, 125, 312; expellees repulsed at border, 99, 107, 123; and League of Nations, 330; occupation zones of, 306

  Austro-Hungarian Empire, 8, 9, 12, 68, 130, 284; ethnic cleansing in, 39, 232

  Babylonian Captivity, 67

  Bački Jarak internment camp, 146, 153, 156

  Balabán, Josef, 19

  Baltic states: ethnic expulsions from, 46, 47–49, 51; fifth column fears in, 59–60; Soviet control of, 41, 46, 48, 51; Volksdeutsche in, 38, 41–42, 61

  Bamborough, Oswald, 166, 167

  Bannister, Sylvia, 53

  Bardens, Dennis, 292

  Barkan, Elazar, 371–72

  Barrington-Ward, Robin, 291

  Barthélemy, Joseph, 14

  Bartoszewski, Władysław, 267, 357

  Bauer, Gerd, 249

  Bavaria: selective admission to, 312–13; transit camps in, 310

  Bednář, František, 268

  Belgium: fifth column fears in, 43; and World War I, 68

  Bell, Bishop George, 288, 289

  Bell-Fialkoff, Andrew, 371

  Beneš, Edvard, 6, 7–9, 11–12, 13, 75, 332, 344; assassination ordered by, 21–23; comeback of, 15–18, 36; decrees issued by, 98, 101, 246, 326–27, 338, 339, 340–41, 342–43, 357, 359; exile of, 8, 14–15, 16, 19–23, 26, 27–28, 34–35, 36; mass expulsions supported by, 16, 18–25, 27–28, 30, 32, 33–34, 36–38, 76, 78, 83, 124, 149, 210, 222, 227, 257–58, 280, 365; and propaganda, 290, 291, 292, 295

  Bergen, Doris, 56, 59

  Berger, Stefan, 352

  Berlin crisis, 154

  Berlin Wall (1961), 325

  Bessel, Richard, 68

  Bettany, Guy, 292

  Beveridge, Sir William, 288

  Bevin, Ernest, 80, 172, 173, 182, 220, 236, 288, 323

  Bidault, Georges, 298

  Biess, Frank, 351

  Bilainkin, George, 291, 292

  Bismarck, Otto von, 69

  Blair, Tony, 327

  Bloxham, Donald, 68

  Blum, Léon, 14

  Blumenwitz, Dieter, 343

  Boček, Bohumil, 97

  Bohemia: ethnic Germans in, 58, 136; German occupation of, 15, 19, 22; provisional government, 8; recolonization of, 281

  Bołesławiec (Bunzlau) children’s camp, 139, 237

  Bonyhád internment camp, 136

  Boothby, Frederick, 158, 170, 173, 177, 183, 199

  Borodziej, Włodzimierz, 364

  Bourdillon, Francis, 275

  Bramwell, Anna, 57

  Brandt, Willy, 320, 352, 353, 356

  Bray, Charles, 117

  Breitinger, Fr. Hilarius, 44

  Britain: and ACC agreement, 124–25, 198, 201–6, 220–22, 304; and Atlantic Charter, 86; complicity of, 3, 23–33, 37, 73, 74–76, 81, 85–87, 92, 93; Czech government in exile in, 17–18, 19–21, 23, 26, 35–36; Czechoslovakia abandoned by, 7, 14–15, 290; and Dunkirk, 19; fifth column fears in, 43, 150; Inter-Departmental Committee report, 74–77, 83, 89, 372; and Munich, 7–8, 14–15, 17, 18, 26, 290; occupation zone, see Germany: British zone; Operation Swallow, 168–74, 183, 184–85, 196–206, 212, 217–22, 264, 369; and “organized expulsions,” 124–25, 161, 162–64, 168–70, 173–75, 177, 180, 192; and population transfers, 72–80, 85, 94; and postwar expectations, 87; Special Operations Executive, 26; Transfer Commission, 89; and “wild expulsions,” 102, 112, 118, 287–88; and World War II, 17, 18, 19, 23, 80, 84, 87, 289

  Brno: “Death March,” 98–100, 105, 365; ethnic manipulation in, 10; Kaunitz College camp in, 96, 155

  Brno-Jundrov internment camp, 237

  Brownlee, Aleta, 252

  Brozsat, Martin, 349

  Brumlik, Micha, 360

  Bryant, Chad, 37, 56

  Buchenwald concentration camp, 118, 192

  Bulgaria, 111, 330

  Burlagsberg refugee camp, 309–10

  Butler, Nicholas Murray, 295

  Buxton, Dorothy, 368

  Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), Poland, massacre in, 44, 45

  Byford-Jones, Wilfred, 252

  Byman, Daniel, 372

  Byrnes, James F., 126–28, 274–75

  Cadogan, Alexander, 26

  Caidler, Karel, 265

  Catholic Church War Relief Services, 221, 230

  Caucasus, forced migration in, 68

  Cavendish-Bentinck, Victor, 149, 172–73, 178, 182, 204–5, 220, 271, 274

  Cecil, Lord Robert, 29

  Cedrowski, Ignacy, 143–44, 156

  Central Agency for Resettlers, 309, 322–24

  Černý, Vojtěch, 236–37

  České Křĺdlovice children’s camp, 139, 237

  Chamberlain, Neville, 14, 18

  Charous, Adolf, 265

  Cherokee nation, Trail of Tears, 67

  children, 229–53; abuse of, 238, 242, 251; adoption of, 231, 250, 251, 252; assimilation of, 354; deaths of, 230, 235, 236–37, 238–40, 242, 243, 252; as forced labor, 230, 233, 234, 237, 250; Hitler Youth, 236–37, 245; in internment camps, 137, 138–39, 151, 230–31, 233–40, 247, 249–50; of mixed marriages, 231–32, 244–48; national identity of, 231–32, 236–37, 241–48, 251; in orphanages, 243–44; repressed memories of, 354; separated from families, 229–30, 235, 237, 244, 249–53; starving, 233–34, 235, 238, 239–40, 252; undesirable ethnicity of, 231–33, 239–41, 245–49

  China, forced migrations in, 67

  Chomutov massacre, 96–97

  Churchill, Winston, 14, 17, 19, 27, 72, 75, 81, 82, 84, 85–88, 89–90, 91, 94, 112, 295

  CICR (International Committee of the Red Cross), 14, 97, 112, 191, 218, 223, 224, 229, 235, 236, 237–39, 240, 242, 253, 286, 292, 296, 310, 322, 328, 329

  Clark, Bruce, 372

  Clark, Norman, 117

  Clay, Lucius D., 185, 206–7, 211, 214, 222, 297, 315

  Clinton administration, 329

  Cohen, Benjamin, 126

  Cohn-Bendit, Daniel, 361

  Cold War: and concentration camps, 150–51, 154; and mass expulsions, 305; and public opinion,
299–300; “stolen children” in, 251

  Colville, John, 146

  Committee Against Mass Expulsions (CAME), 294–95

  communism, fall of, 325, 358

  concentration camps, 130–57; categories of, 139–40; children in, 137, 138–39, 151, 234, 239; citizens’ committees on, 136–37; closure of, 153–54; and Cold War propaganda, 150–51, 154; deaths in, 133, 134, 137, 139, 140–41, 145, 146, 153, 155, 157, 195–96; disease in, 134, 137, 139, 140, 145, 155; downward spiral in conditions of, 309–10; ethnic Germans sent to, 15, 45, 74, 135, 156, 309–11; food in, 144–46, 147, 151–52, 346; forced labor, 15, 134, 135, 137, 139, 140, 142–44, 152, 153, 154, 234, 337; inmate categories, 138–39; Jews in, 22, 35, 137–38, 140, 156; map, 131; Nazi models for, 98, 132, 136, 137, 138, 139, 146, 148, 151–52, 156; “organized expulsions” to (transit camps), 163, 165, 168, 170, 173–74, 175, 176, 178–81, 186, 190, 192–93, 303–6; as payback for the war, 132, 146–48, 289; POWs in, 138; “protective custody” in, 59; and public opinion, 146–49, 151–52, 157; and Red Cross, 135, 136, 141, 144–46, 149–50, 152–53; torture in, 132–33, 140; trials for abuses in, 154–56; unclear data on, 134, 135–36, 145–46; violent treatment in, 132–33, 134, 137, 140, 141–42, 156; “wild expulsions” to (internment camps), 96, 99, 104, 106–7, 112, 117–18, 122, 123, 127, 136–37, 176; women in, 22, 134, 137, 138, 141–42, 151, 235; “young thugs” in charge of, 138, 140, 147, 170

  Connor, Ian, 324

  Cordell, Karl, 251, 359

  Cornwall, Mark, 13

  Crawley, Aidan, 318

  Crimes against humanity, 328–30, 345

  Cromwell, Oliver, 67

  Curp, David, 370, 373

  Curtin, John, 72, 84

  Curzon, George Nathaniel, 70, 72

  Cyprus, Turkish invasion of, 72

  Czechoslovakia, 7–38; Beneš decrees, see Beneš, Edvard; borders of, 21, 36; breakup of, 7, 34, 367; Charter 77; movement, 354, 357; citizenship, 101, 246, 338, 339–41, 366; Communist Party in, 14, 26–27, 30, 98, 100, 102–3, 115, 149, 154, 256–58, 261, 281–82, 348, 355, 366; constitution of, 9; Czech-German declaration (1997), 357–58; District National Committees, 97–98, 100, 101, 102–3, 105–7, 120–22, 134–35, 187–89, 244, 246–48, 257, 266; ethnic cleansing in, 15, 36, 96–99, 231–36, 359, 365–66; ethnic manipulation in, 10; fifth column fears in, 102, 113–16, 323, 358; formation of, 9; Germanization in, 59; German occupation of, 15, 16, 95, 98, 208, 232, 245, 248, 259, 337, 370–71; government in exile, 17–22, 23, 26, 27, 34–36, 94, 332; “Great Decree” in, 37; Hrádek incident, 114; Law No. 115 (1946), 370; and League of Nations, 330; liberation of, 37, 257; “May days,” 96, 102; memory and forgetting, 354–62; and Munich, 7–9, 11, 14–18, 26, 27, 35, 40, 61, 117, 290, 292, 367; National Assembly, 101; National Council, 17; nationalism within, 9, 10, 18; National Land Fund, 260–61; National Security Force (SNB), 100, 136, 138, 147, 190, 198; and Population; Transfer Commission, 77–79; population transfers from, 1, 2, 23–24, 29, 32, 36, 73, 76, 78–81, 85, 89, 90, 91, 93, 94–103, 105–8, 112, 116–17, 128, 185–92, 198, 203, 206, 210, 222–23, 226–27, 248, 293, 326–27, 357, 371; postwar economy of, 143, 281–83; postwar planning for, 20, 257–58; and Potsdam, 101, 111, 115; “Prague Spring” (1968), 354; propaganda of, 290–93, 295, 348; property confiscated in, 255, 256, 257–59, 260–61, 265, 281, 337–38, 355; resistance movement (ÚVOD) in, 19, 20, 22, 95, 102–3, 113; Second Republic, 15, 16, 355; Secret Study Group, 94; and Soviet Union, 14, 16, 17, 24, 27, 34, 37, 257, 291; Sudetendeutsche in, 8–15, 17–38, 76, 79, 96–99, 102–3, 107, 113–15, 117, 125, 268, 338, 366–67; territory lost to Germany, 7–8, 36; Vlasov Army, 95; war damage in, 259

  Czechoslovak Legion, 12

  Czech Republic, 2; EU membership of, 327, 342, 357, 358; legal claims against, 326–27, 337–43 see also Czechoslovakia

  Czernin, Eugen, 341

  Dachau concentration camp, 118, 130, 151, 310–11

  Daladier, Edouard, 14

  “Danubius” (Mylnárik), 354–55, 357

  Danzig, 45, 46, 76, 77, 108

  Danzig–West Prussia, 46, 50–51

  Darfur, 68

  Dastich, František, 103, 186

  Davies, Norman, 161, 280

  Debrecen internment camp, 136

  Deutsche Volksliste, 55–57, 59, 61, 135, 245, 260, 275, 277–78

  Deutsche Volksunion, 156

  Deutschstämmige, 56

  Dewey, John, 294

  Djilas, Milovan, 116, 281

  Dmowski, Roman, 24

  Dobrzyńska, Marta, 218

  Dragojlović, Jana, 156

  Dreithaler, Rudolf, 338, 339, 357

  Drobner, Bolesław, 270

  Drozda, V., 107

  Drtina, Prokop, 22

  Dubiański, Wacław, 140

  Duchosal, Jean, 141

  Duda, Emma, 229, 249

  Duda, Teodor, 155

  Duff, Sheila Grant, 292

  Duriš, Julius, 260

  Dyborski, Mirosław, 277

  Dymek, Walenty, 44

  East Prussia, 77; and Poland, 24, 76, 82, 86, 88; resettlement of, 262; Volksdeutsche from, 200, 225

  Economic Cooperation Administration, 317, 318

  Edelman, Marek, 360

  Eden, Anthony, 21, 23, 24–25, 28, 74, 83, 85, 87, 88, 112

  Edgcumbe, Oliver, 213, 214

  Eggers, Paul, 191

  Egit, Jakub, 273–74

  Eichmann, Adolf, 50, 51, 161

  Eigi, Irma, 53

  Einsatzgruppen, 45

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 128, 156

  Emmet, Christopher, 294

  Erdei, Ferenc, 208

  Erskine, G. W. E. J. “Bobby,” 159, 205–6

  Europe, postwar, redrawing the map of, 66–67, 74

  European Convention on Human Rights, 336, 338, 341–42

  European Union: Charter of Fundamental Rights, 326; Lisbon Treaty, 326; membership in, 327, 342, 357, 358, 367

  European unity, 316–17, 325

  Expellee League (Bund der Vertriebenen), 359

  Expellees’ and Disenfranchised People’s Bloc, 316, 317–19

  Fehrenbach, Heide, 350–51

  Fenyö, Miksa, 211

  Fierlinger, Zdenĕk, 97, 119, 152, 235

  Filipovo internment camp, 146, 153

  Fischer, Gyula, 213

  Fischer, Otakar, 104

  Fisher, Allan, 32, 33

  Fladda, Lisbeth, 250

  Foot, Michael, 241, 291, 295

  Forster, Albert, 50–51

  France: and ACC agreement, 124, 125, 198, 305; and Alsace-Lorraine, 69–70, 85; classification scheme in, 69–70; Czechoslovakia abandoned by, 7, 11, 14; fifth column fears in, 43; German population in, 297–99; and Munich, 7, 11, 14, 15, 17; and occupation zone, 125, 305; and World War I, 68; and World War II, 17

  Franco-Prussian War (1870), 69

  Frank, Hans, 334

  Frank, Karl Hermann, 13, 27, 35, 95

  Frank, Matthew, 289

  Franklin, Andrew, 200, 201, 205

  Friedrich, Jörg, Der Brand (The Fire), 359

  Frommer, Benjamin, 37, 244, 246

  Frowein, Jochen, 342, 343, 344, 370

  Frydruch, Josef, 248

  Fulbrook, Mary, History of Germany 1918–2008, 2

  Fye, John H., 147, 164–65, 186, 189, 192, 198, 222, 227, 304, 369

  Gabzdilová, Soňa, 4

  Gakowa internment camp, 137, 146, 237

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, 317

  Garbett, Cyril, Archbishop of York, 289

  Gardiner, Gerald, 118

  Gascoigne, A. D. F., 209

  Gęborski, Czesław, 141, 155, 156

  Gedye, G.E.G. (Eric), 148, 238, 240, 292

  Geiger, Vladimir, 4

  Geneva Conventions, 138, 149, 286, 333

  genocide, 68, 70, 329, 335

  Gerlach, David, 265

  German Democratic Republic: borders of, 324; formation of, 324–25

  German Federal Republic: economic growth of, 321;
formation of, 62, 154, 316, 321, 351; and Landsmannschaften, 316–20, 348; Lastenaugsleich in, 318–19, 321, 323 see also Germany

  German Historical Museum Foundation, 361

  Germanness, determination of, 49, 56–58, 60, 61, 65, 78, 231–33, 244–46, 351

  Germany: Allied Control Council, 111, 124, 363 see also ACC agreement; and Anschluss, 13, 14, 41; Berlin Wall (1961), 325; borders of, 74, 82–83, 87, 227, 274, 319, 352, 364; British zone, 125, 161, 162–64, 168–70, 173–75, 177, 180, 192, 197–206, 209, 217–22, 307–8; Center Against Expulsions, 359–62; Communist Party (KPD) in, 123–24, 274, 319, 322; concentration camps in, 74, 89, 127, 130–57, 323; cost of resettlement borne by, 78; Criminal Police investigation (1940), 44; Czech-German declaration (1997), 357–58; denazification in, 302; deportations to, 15, 18–21, 23–24, 46–52, 66, 70, 76–77, 85, 89, 90, 91, 150, 192–93, 303; see also “organized expulsions”; “wild expulsions”; duty of silence in, 353–54; East, see German Democratic Republic; ethnic cleansing within, 39, 40, 41, 228; euthanasia program “T-4” in, 49; evacuations to, 63, 112, 119–20; expellees assimilated in, 302, 307–9, 311–25; expellees repulsed at borders, 100–101; financial claims of, 360; French zone, 125, 305; Generalplan Ost, 41, 60, 349; Heimatfilme, 350–51, 352; Heim ins Reich, 46–52, 60, 124; Kristallnacht (1938), 361; and Lebensraum, 43; memory and forgetting, 349–52, 357–58; Nazi atrocities in, 116, 320, 347, 353, 371; Nazi Party in, 13, 228, 315; Nazi Reich in, 3, 7, 32, 73, 78, 94, 232, 275, 286, 332, 337–38, 349, 350, 368; Nazi-Soviet Pact, 27, 39, 41, 45, 48, 52, 81, 256; occupation statutes in, 312–13; and Ostpolitik, 352–53, 356; payback for war, 66, 80, 90, 92, 95–98, 132, 146–48, 240–42, 286–89, 296, 314, 340, 342, 344, 347, 351–52, 357, 360, 364, 367–68, 369–71; postwar economy of, 78, 89, 150–51, 193, 209, 299, 301–3, 307–8, 310, 317, 321–25; postwar generation in, 352–54; reparations payments from, 77, 259, 337–38, 371; reunification of, 325, 356; Soviet zone, 125, 128, 161–62, 163, 164, 169, 170–71, 175, 177, 186–88, 192, 200–203, 215–17, 221, 223–26, 306–7, 308, 321–25; SS protected in, 286; Supreme Allied Authority in, 77; territorial losses of, 11, 319, 364; territories absorbed by, 7–8, 14, 41, 43; U.S. zone, 125, 159, 164–66, 182, 186, 187, 189–90, 192, 198–99, 206–7, 208, 211–14, 217, 219, 222–23, 226, 303, 307; West, see German Federal Republic; and World War I, 11, 68, 70, 301, 328–29; and World War II, 90, 95, 207, 330, 334

  Gibson, John, 299

  Glassheim, Eagle, 99, 282

  Glotz, Peter, 361

  Glubczyce assembly camp, 181, 226

  Goebbels, Joseph, 7, 19, 42, 43, 44

 

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