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(More customer reviews)This book is absolutely unbelievable. The author is actually trying to justify ethnic cleansing. It does not matter whom are the victims as in wartime we All become victims no matter whom we are or from where we come from. The so called 'collective guilt' accusation held against the throats of German speaking people is never any validated reason to write such a biased and even racist book.
If this book is to be even half believed then as an example this gives full justification to the Government of the Republic of Ireland to carry out the ethnic cleansing of all Protestants from the north east of the island and by use of guns and rape and pillage force them all to go to the isle of Britain as expelled refugees. The Government in Dublin of course knows that such a dispicable action is completely against International law and a crime against humanity. -but perhaps you can see my point?
The ethnic cleansing of approx 18 million German civilians from eastern Germany and the Sudetenland and other parts of German speaking Europe at the end of WW2 is one of the greatest crimes of the last century and of which has been played down deliberately by far too many English speaking historians.
2.1 million mostly women and children and old people were murdered directly or indirectly as a result of this mass expulsion. The German women and even children were raped en mass all across eastern Germany, the same women and children then by brute force were evicted from their homes at gunpoint and whose family heritage had been living for hundreds and hundreds of years in these cities, towns, villages and farms that were by force to be made part of new countries by expelling these German people and then moving their borders.
It is my viewpoint that the author of this book needs to take a long look at himself in the mirror and ask himself does truth and justice and human rights mean anything to him.
Does he actually 'understand' the true meaning of such words?
This book proves some people still have a very sad twisted and distorted opinion regarding the history of central Europe as a whole.
John
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A Clean Sweep? The Politics of Ethnic Cleansing in Western Poland, 1945-1960 examines the long-term impact of ethnic cleansing on postwar Poland, focusing on the western Polish provinces of Poznan and Zielona Góra. Employing archival materials from multiple sources, including newly available Secret Police archives, it demonstrates how ethnic cleansing solidified Communist rule in the short term while reshaping and "nationalizing" that rule. The Poles of Poznan played a crucial role in the postwar national revolution in which Poland was ethnically cleansed by a joint effort of the people and state. A resulting national solidarity provided the Communist-dominated regime with an underlying stability, while it transformed what had been a militantly internationalist Polish Communism. This book addresses the legacy of Polish-German conflict that led to ethnic cleansing in East Central Europe, the ramifications within the context of Polish Stalinism's social and cultural revolutions, and the subsequent anti-national counterrevolutionary effort to break the bonds of national solidarity. Finally, it examines how the Poznan milieu undermined and then reversed Stalinist efforts at socioeconomic and cultural revolution. In the aftermath of the Poznan revolt of June 1956, the regime's leadership re-embraced hyper-nationalist politics and activists, and by 1960 Polish authorities had succeeded in stabilizing their rule at the cost of becoming an increasingly national socialist polity.T. David Curp is assistant professor in the Department of History at Ohio University.
