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

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by R. M. Douglas


  Zionist organizations, 158–59, 181–85, 274, 137

  Zipsers, 137

  Złotów internment camp, 276

  Zorin, Valerian, 119

  Figure 1. Edvard Beneš.

  Figure 2. Wenzel Jaksch. ĈTK Photo FO00460325.

  Figure 3. Column of prisoners at Jaworzno camp. PRO FO 371/100718. © HMSO

  Figure 4. A Polish colonist is shown the location of the confiscated German farm he is to receive. Shaw Jones, UNRRA 2416, UN Archives, New York.

  Figure 5. A Czech “organized expulsion” in progress at Nový Jiĉín. Margaret Fait Papers, box 4/16, Hoover Institution Archives.

  Figure 6. One Czech cartoonist’s view of the expulsions: a Soviet soldier pushes the Sudetendeutsche across the country’s western frontier, obstructed by the Anglo-Americans.

  Figure 7. Operation Swallow: An expellee from the Recovered Territories, her lower limbs swollen from hunger edema. Christopher Emmet Papers, box 29, Hoover Institution Archives.

  Figure 8. Operation Swallow: A shaven- headed eleven- year- old girl from the Recovered Territories, weighing only thirty- one pounds at the time of her expulsion. Christopher Emmet Papers, box 29, Hoover Institution Archives.

  Figure 9. Operation Swallow: Elderly expellees assisted onto German soil at Travemünde near Lübeck, under the supervision of a British soldier. Christopher Emmet Papers, box 29, Hoover Institution Archives.

  Figure 10. An ethnic German child, transported from Eastern Europe, waits beside sacks of provisions. ICRC V-P- HIST- 03226–22.

  Figure 11. Václav Hrneĉek, deputy commandant of Linzervorstadt camp, arriving for his trial in 1953.

  Figure 12. A West German postage stamp commemorates the tenth anniversary of the expulsions.

 

 

 


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