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

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by R. M. Douglas


  Pomerania: interim camps in, 51, 144; as Polish territory, 93

  Popovice (Pfaffendorf) internment camp, 137

  Pöppendorf transit camp, 163, 168, 170, 369

  population transfers, 1–6; aftershocks of, 225–28; Allied complicity in, 23–25, 27–33, 36, 64, 65, 66–67, 73, 78–79, 88, 125, 127, 193, 286, 296, 302, 332, 333–34, 343, 363, 368–69, 373; chaos of, 66, 89, 198, 303, 305–6; and cultural identity, 316; death toll in, 1–2, 44, 62, 195–97, 218, 225, 306; Dokumentation of, 348–50, 352, 361; economic effects of, 77, 78, 101, 193, 227, 279–83, 301–3, 364, 372–73; as ethnic cleansing, 39–41, 68–69, 96–99, 227–28, 230–31, 267–68, 373; failures of program, 60, 186–87, 364; and food, 89, 195, 204; and forced labor, 54, 111, 112, 120–21, 180, 181, 193, 208, 277, 337; future probability of, 348; Heim ins Reich, 46–52; human rights abuses in, 227–28, 368, 373; human suffering in, 63, 94, 116, 194–97, 211, 224, 373; and incoming colonists, 39, 41, 43, 47, 48, 49, 53–55, 60, 88, 313–15; inefficiency of, 49, 50–52, 304; “inevitability” thesis, 364–66; international reaction to, 284–300; to internment camps, 96, 99, 104, 106–7, 112, 117–18, 122, 123, 127, 130–57; and jobs, 66, 311–13, 320–21; lack of preparation for, 65–66, 74, 94, 302–5; and the law, see law; memory and forgetting, 350–62; and mixed marriages, 48, 231–32, 244–48; and moral issues, 118–19, 127, 289, 294, 352, 365, 368–70; numbers of, 195, 201–4, 217, 219–23, 225–26; opposition to, 32–33, 46–47, 288, 294–95, 359–62, 372–73; “orderly and humane,” 90, 91, 93, 129, 204–6, 211, 219, 226, 285, 296, 372; overlooked in history, 2–6, 62, 325, 352–54; and political mobilization, 315–20; and property confiscation, 30, 47–48, 49–50, 52–55, 65, 78, 98, 101, 105–6, 112, 148, 161, 186, 248, 254–61, 319, 337–38, 364; and resettlement, 66, 160–61, 165, 186, 254–83, 301–25; rewriting history, 371–72; and right of return, 319, 373; the scheme, 65–92; scholarly defense of, 364; solving minority problems via, 371–72; statistics unreliable on, 63, 65, 99, 201–4, 209–10, 219–20; transport for, 66, 74, 78, 89, 198, 223–24; and vigilante violence, 59–60, 95–96, 104, 105; in wartime, 47, 62; see also “organized expulsions”; “wild expulsions”

  Postoloprty internment camp, 96, 236–37

  Potsdam Conference (1945), 89–92, 188, 223, 350; and Czechoslovakia, 101, 111, 115; fifth anniversary of, 316–17; and Hungary, 111, 207, 209; and the law, 327, 334, 343; “orderly and humane” transfers under, 90, 91, 93, 129, 204–6, 211, 219, 226, 285, 296, 372; and resettlement, 274; and “wild expulsions,” 107, 115, 116, 117, 119, 123–24, 126, 127

  Potulice internment camp, 138, 141–42, 143–44, 238, 240, 249, 346, 353

  “Prague Spring” (1968), 354

  Prášil, Karel, 96

  Prawin, Jakub, 205, 220–21, 223

  Přerov massacre, 155

  Přĺhoda, Petr, 281

  Putin, Vladimir, 327

  Qing Empire, China, 67

  Quinn, Marjorie, 96

  Raack, R. C., 82

  racial purity, 32–33, 41, 43, 45, 47

  Rădescu, Nicolae, 111, 112

  Radio Warsaw, 201

  Rákosi, Mátyas, 211, 215, 217

  Randolph, A. Philip, 294

  Ranzenhoferová, Marie, 99

  Rapp, Wilhelm, 313

  Račka, Francis, 25

  Rau, Heinrich, 323

  Recovered Territories, Poland: children in, 234; and Czechoslovakia, 107; denial of expulsions in, 350; expellees’ claims in, 341; German occupation of, 108; and internment camps, 135, 150; and numbers, 192, 202–4, 219, 258, 261–62, 279; and “organized expulsions,” 159, 161, 164, 167–68, 169, 170–71, 174, 178, 192, 199, 200; and “wild expulsions,” 104–5, 109, 117, 119, 124, 126, 128, 293; and “Wild West,” 254, 258, 263, 269, 271–75, 279, 280–81, 282

  Red Army: civilian flight from, 1, 61, 62, 75, 79, 81, 88, 103, 350; Czechoslovakia liberated by, 37, 257; in Hungary, 208; and internment camps, 135, 141, 226; and Katyń Forest massacre, 87, 256; and “organized expulsions,” 169, 171, 175, 178, 187, 188, 225; and Warsaw Uprising (1944), 256; and “wild expulsions,” 105, 107–9, 111, 119, 121, 128, 270; and “Wild West,” 264, 267, 270, 271–74

  Red Army Faction, 2

  Red Cross, see CICR

  Rees, Goronwy, 287

  Reich citizenship, 61

  Reich Commissariat for the Strengthening of Germandom (RKFDV), 47, 49, 50, 56

  Reichsdeutsche, 54, 55, 57–58, 61–62

  religion, as mark of identity, 71

  Renaissance, 327

  Rendel, Sir George, 184

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 41

  Riđica labor camp, 141, 145

  Ripka, Hubert, 14, 18, 25, 26, 34, 37, 258, 287, 292, 332

  Roberts, Frank, 25, 35

  Robertson, Sir Brian, 185, 205, 297

  Rokossovsky, Konstantin, 273

  Roman Empire, end of, 49

  Romania: citizenship in, 112; Communist Party in, 112; evacuations from, 63; fifth column fears in, 59–60, 61; forcible removals from, 1, 93, 110, 111; land lying idle in, 278–79; and League of Nations, 330; minority populations in, 330; Soviet control of, 41; territory ceded by, 51–52; Volksdeutsche in, 61, 111–13, 153

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 294, 334–35

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 17, 24, 27–28, 75, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 94

  Rosenberg, Alfred, 41

  Rothfels, Hans, 361

  Rothschild, Joseph, 2

  Rudolfsgnad (Kničanin) internment camp, 137, 154, 156

  Runge, Max, 250

  Rupa (Prague) internment camp, 239

  Russell, Bertrand, 288–89

  Russian Revolution, 40

  Ruthenia, 8, 36, 208

  Rwanda, Radio Mille Collines, 366

  Ryan, Stephen, 372

  Salem witch trials, 115

  Salzgitter concentration camp, 222

  Samokhvalov, Nikita S., 104

  Sargent, Sir Orme, 76, 111, 149, 200

  Sassie, C., 216–17

  Save Europe Now, 289, 293

  Savery, Frank, 172

  Saxony, interim camps in, 51

  Scandinavia, German invasion of, 245

  Schechtman, Joseph, 48

  Schieder, Theodor, 348–50, 351

  Schily, Otto, 361

  Schimanski, Stefan, 369

  Schindler, Oskar, 101

  Schoenfeld, Rudolf, 84

  Schröder, Gerhard, 358, 360

  Schulze, Rainer, 352

  Schwelb, Egon, 334

  Schwiebus, expulsions from, 109

  Second Vienna Award, 51

  Sekič (Lovčenac) internment camp, 146, 153

  September 11 attacks, 345

  Seton-Watson, Robert, 290

  Sěvres, Treaty of, 70

  Shirer, William, 294

  Shotwell, James T., 295

  Sicherheitsdienst, 43

  Sikawa internment camp, 250

  Sikorski, Władysław, 24

  Silesia, 24, 88, 93, 124, 226, 274, 330

  Skerniewice prison, 250

  Skowyra, Tadeusz, 140

  slavery, and international law, 335

  Slavs, ethnic cleansing of, 39

  Slovakia: anti-Czech stance of, 15, 35; antifascists in, 191; fifth column fears in, 61; as German client state, 232, 367; internment camps in, 236; judicial system of, 343; minority populations in, 8, 14, 137; and Munich, 15, 367; and population transfers, 338, 357; Republic of, 15; Sudetendeutsche in, 61, 136

  Slovenia, evacuations from, 63

  Smutný, Jaromír, 11

  Smyrna, sack of, 70, 73

  Sobkó, Michał, 271

  social engineering, 30, 231, 257, 265–66, 372

  Society for the Prevention of World War III, 294–95

  Sokolovsky, Vasily, 111, 322

  Soviet Union: and ACC agreement, 124, 125, 201–3, 305–6; Bolshevik Revolution, 40; Communism in, 17, 355; and Czechoslovakia, 14, 16, 17, 24, 27, 34, 37, 257, 291; ethnic cleansing in, 39–40, 42, 46, 68; expansionism of, 36, 41;
Five Year Plans, 273; German invasion of, 35, 287, 367; labor forces in, 76, 111, 112, 135, 208; and Munich, 14; Nazi-Soviet Pact, 27, 39, 41, 45, 48, 52, 81, 256; occupation zone, see Germany: Soviet zone; and “organized expulsions,” 124–25, 161–62, 163, 164, 169, 170–71, 175, 177, 186–88, 192, 206; and Poland, 24, 41, 45–46, 48, 75, 81–83, 87, 225–26, 256; postwar expectations, 87, 88; Red Army, see Red Army; support for expulsion, 26, 27, 29, 73, 74, 90, 92, 93, 111–12; and “wild expulsions,” 100, 104–6, 107–8, 111–12, 119–24, 128; and World War II, 20, 73, 87

  Spina, Franz, 11

  Spottswood, A. D., 210

  Spychalski, Marian, 182

  Stalag IV C (Wistritz), 101

  Stalin, Joseph, 39, 45; and Baltic states, 48–49; and Churchill, 75, 81, 88, 112; and ethnic Germans, 29, 40, 42, 65, 72, 76; and population transfers, 23, 27, 29, 40, 81–84, 90, 261; at Potsdam, 206; and territorial expansion, 24, 36, 41–42, 46, 51; and World War II, 14, 87; at Yalta, 89

  Stalingrad, Battle of, 59, 207

  Stanĕk, Tomáš, 4, 115, 128, 239

  Steinbach, Erika, 359, 360, 361

  Steinberg, Elan, 156

  Steinhardt, Laurence, 149, 166

  Sternberg, Günther, 158–59

  Stettinius, Ed, 86, 88, 332

  Stokes, Richard, 151–52, 237, 286

  Stout, Rex, 294

  Strahovský; internment camp, 137

  Strang, Sir William, 217

  Strauss, George, 32

  Stresemann, Gustav, 11

  Stuckart, Wilhelm, 318

  Suchdol nad Odrou camp, 235, 239–40

  Sudetendeutsche, 8–15, 17–38; activists among, 10–11, 12–13; anti-Nazi, 15, 33, 35–36; craftsmen, 135; evacuations of, 63, 76, 117; expulsion of, 15, 18–33, 46, 76, 99–103, 105, 107, 113–15, 199, 332, 338, 354–55; in internment camps, 132–34; jobs for, 311–13; murders of, 96–97, 113; as passive war criminals, 33, 34, 38, 367; Reich citizenship of, 61, 232; women and children, 247–48

  Sudetenland: and Czechoslovakia, 8–15, 18, 25; ethnic manipulation in, 10, 40; German takeover of, 7–8, 130; interim camps in, 51; recolonization of, 186, 263, 265–66, 281, 282, 283; and Transfer Commission, 77

  Svidnĺk internment camp, 137

  Sviridov, Vladimir Petrovich, 213

  Svoboda, Ludvík, 98, 102

  Svoboda, V., 120

  Swanstrom, Msgr. Edward, 221, 230, 252

  Sweden: neutrality of, 296; skilled workers imported to, 298

  Świdwin assembly camp, 179

  Świerczewski, Karol, 108, 109

  Świętochłowice-Zgoda concentration camp, 138, 140, 155–56

  Switzerland, neutrality of, 296

  Szczeciń-Gumience assembly camp, 168, 172, 173–74, 175, 178, 179, 197, 218, 219, 234, 293

  Szczepanik, Jerzy, 226

  Taborsky, Edward, 364

  Tanner, Marcus, 67

  Targosz, Adam, 181

  Târgu Jiu detention camp, 134, 136

  Taylor, A. J. P., 28

  Tehran Conference (1943), 75

  Tenz, Maria, 156

  Terrell, Stephen, 117

  Teutonic Knights, 350

  Ther, Philipp, 306, 323, 324

  Theresienstadt concentration camp, 130, 134, 155

  Thicknesse, Ralph, 185, 192

  Thirty Years’ War, 328

  Thomas, Norman, 294

  Thompson, Dorothy, 294, 295

  Thornberry, Patrick, 333, 336

  Tito (Josef Broz), 110–11, 116, 122, 136, 151

  Tobin, E. M., 195, 196

  torture, taboo against, 345

  Toynbee, Arnold, 80–81

  Tragelehn, B. K., 348

  Treffling refugee camp, 311

  Trevelyan, G. M., 301

  Troutbeck, Jack, 74, 80, 172, 288

  Truman, Harry S., 90, 94, 332

  Trzciński, Kazimierz, 254–55, 256

  Tuplice (Lubusz) assembly camp, 175, 223, 226

  Turkey: and Armenian genocide, 70, 329; and Cyprus, 72; ethnic Germans in, 111; and Greece, 18, 31, 47, 70–72, 73, 76, 85; “guest workers” in Germany from, 325; and Soviet Union, 39

  Turnu Măgurele camp, 237

  Uganda, expulsions from, 336

  Ukraine, evacuations from, 63

  Ukrainians, Aryanized, 41

  United Nations, 77, 88; Charter of, 332; Commission on Human Rights, 334–35, 338, 341, 342, 344; establishment of (1945), 332; Genocide Convention, 335; Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), 78, 182, 184–85, 187, 229, 240, 243, 296; UNICEF, 241; Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 332–33, 334–35, 336

  United States: and ACC agreement, 124–28, 164–66, 198, 203–4, 214, 222; and Atlantic Charter, 86; black Americans in, 331, 335; complicity of, 3, 27–28, 32, 73, 74, 81, 83, 84, 86, 92, 93, 94, 296; immigrants assimilated in, 73, 125, 299; and international law, 329, 334–35; Japanese incarcerated in, 73; and Munich, 8, 15, 17; and Native Americans, 67, 73; neutrality of, 17; occupation zone, see Germany: U.S zone; OMGUS, 198, 206–7, 211–12, 222–23; and “organized expulsions,” 124–25, 159, 164–66, 182, 186, 187, 189–90, 192, 206–7, 211; and postwar expectations, 87; public opinion in, 293–98; and “wild expulsions,” 106, 107, 118, 120–21, 126–28; and World War II, 20, 73, 87

  Upper Silesia, 76, 77–78, 88

  Ústínad Labem massacre, 114–16, 365

  Vansittart, Lord Robert, 29

  Vatican: as court of international arbitration, 328; and expulsions, 297

  Veltrusy children’s camp, 240

  Versailles, Treaty of, 11, 13, 15, 70, 301, 329, 330, 331

  Veselý, Alois, 132

  Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 335

  Villard, Oswald Garrison, 294

  Vinogradov, Vladislav, 111, 112

  Vogl, E., 235

  Voigt, Frederick A., 97, 293

  Volksbund, 209

  Volksdeutsche, 3, 38, 40–64, 79, 91, 110–11, 150–51, 207, 286, 349, 364

  Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VoMi), 47

  Vollmar, Antje, 361

  Voroshilov, Kliment, 166

  Vukosavljević, Sreten, 279

  Vyvyan, Michael, 346

  Walter, Francis E., 296, 297

  Wanderbund, 43

  Wannsee Conference (1942), 318

  war crimes, 3–4, 92; changing definitions of, 73, 329–30; Nuremberg trials, 288–89, 329–30, 334, 343; passive, 33, 34, 38, 60

  Warthegau district, 46, 50, 51, 52, 53, 62–63, 81

  waterboarding, 345

  Waters, Timothy, 344, 345

  Weems, George “Pappy,” 213–14

  Wehler, Hans-Ulrich, 349

  Weimar Republic, 11

  Welles, Sumner, 28

  Wells, H. G., 14

  Werewolves, 113–16, 265

  Westphalian system, and state sovereignty, 328

  Wiedemann, Andreas, 266

  Wiesenthal, Simon, 182

  “wild expulsions,” 91, 93–128, 176, 193; and ACC agreement, 124–28, 202; Allied backlash, 117–19, 126–27; and antifascists, 101–2, 105, 106; arbitrary selections for, 101–3; attempts to return home, 103–4, 128; at border crossings, 104, 107–8, 119, 120–23; “Brno Death March,” 98–100, 105, 365; chaos of, 103, 104–6, 111, 112–13, 288, 305; compared to Nazi atrocities, 96–97, 98, 108, 116, 117–19, 126–27, 228, 369; deaths in, 96, 99, 101, 109–10, 117, 120, 122, 129; difficulties of, 99, 100, 104–5, 107–8, 119–23; and disease, 99, 106, 110, 117; humanitarian crisis in, 119–20; to internment camps, 96, 99, 104, 106–7, 112, 117–18, 122, 123, 127, 136–37, 176; and journalists, 117–18, 348; local initiatives in, 104–5; and loss of citizenship, 101, 112–13; myth of, 94–95; and “organized expulsions,” 125, 173, 176; pace of, 116–17, 125; passivity of victims in, 113, 115–16, 373; by police and military, 94, 96–97, 100, 105, 106, 107–9, 111, 112, 113, 116, 119–20, 124; and property confiscation, 101, 105–6, 112, 270; and public opinion, 125, 288, 293; and revenge-seeking, 95–96, 287–88; transport for, 109–10, 11
7–20, 121–24, 125; unclear data on, 96, 99, 128; violence of, 94–98, 104, 105–7, 108, 114–16; and Werewolves, 113–16

  “Wild West”: churches in, 267–69; economic disruption in, 279–83; gold diggers in, 267, 269–70, 355; lawlessness in, 263–65, 266–67, 270, 277–78; name of, 256–57; population shortages in, 261–66, 278–79, 282; returnees to, 265, 273, 274, 276;

  Williamson, Tom, 292

  Wilson, Duncan, 206

  Wilson, Woodrow, 8, 88, 329

  Wilsonianism, 14, 29, 63

  Winch, Michael, 272

  Wingfield, Nancy, 2

  Witte, Eugen de, 33

  Wojtyła, Karol (Pope John Paul II), 356

  Wolfe, James, 343

  Wolff, Stefan, 251, 359, 362

  Wolski, Władysław, 161–62, 170, 179, 204, 206, 223, 225

  World Council of Churches, 297

  World Jewish Congress (WJC), 156

  World War I: aims of Allies in, 13, 18; Czechoslovak Legion in, 12; forced migrations of, 68–69; passive civilians in, 367–68; postwar shifts in boundaries, 30–31, 70; and Versailles, 11, 13, 15, 70, 301, 329, 330, 331; and war crimes, 328–29

  World War II: Allies in, 17–18, 287; and appeasement, 87; and bills of indictment, 334; and border disputes, 18; destruction in, 90, 259, 359; Dunkirk in, 19; duration of, 37, 95; ethnic cleansing in, 39–41; expansion of, 20; fifth column fears in, 43–44; narratives of, 353–54; onset of, 16, 42, 333; passive civilians in, 368; Peace Conference, 116; population exchanges in, 71, 160; postwar flux, 93–94; reparations for, 77, 259, 337–38, 371; “September Campaign” (1939), 43–44; Stalingrad, 59, 207; V-E Day, 95, 103; and war crimes, 330, 334, 343

  World War III, prevention of, 294–95, 366–67

  Wrocław assembly camps, 179, 180, 181

  Yalta Conference (1945), 81, 87–88, 89

  Yugoslavia: ethnic cleansing in, 2, 60, 344, 365; Extraordinary Review Commissions, 136; fifth column fears in, 61, 110; forcible removals from, 1, 63, 68, 93, 110–11, 116, 122–23, 281, 327, 344; German invasion of, 61; lands confiscated in, 279; and League of Nations, 330; Prinz Eugen division in, 60; state dissolved, 61; Volksdeutsche in, 38, 61, 63, 91, 93, 110–11, 116, 136, 150–51, 200

  Ząbkowice Sląskie (Frankenstein) camp, 179

  Zahra, Tara, 10, 231

  Zámostí internment camp, 134

  Zayas, Alfred-Maurice de, 336, 343

  Zeman, Miloš, 327, 358, 371

  Zeman, Zbyněk, 10

  Zhukov, Georgy, 119, 120, 162, 273, 322

  Zimne Wody (Kaltwasser) camp, 141

 

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