World War II -
Lost and forgotten: German 'wolf children' in Lithuania The Second World War ended in May 1945
- but not for the German "Wolfskinder," or "wolf children." On their own, they made
their way from East Prussia to Lithuania, a decision they'll never forget.
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When Alfreda Pipiraite turned 18, she believed she'd
made it. "But no, they said to me, 'You German pig! You Hitlerist! Fascist!' And
so on," she told DW. "It was particularly painful whenever a member of my family
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The European
Atrocity You Never Heard About The
screams that rang throughout the darkened cattle car crammed with deportees,
as it jolted across the icy Polish countryside five nights before Christmas,
were Dr. Loch's only means of locating his patient. The doctor, formerly chief
medical officer of a large urban hospital, now found himself clambering over
piles of baggage, fellow passengers, and buckets used as toilets, only to find
his path blocked by an old woman who ignored his request to move aside. On closer
examination, he discovered that she had frozen to death. -
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The Forgotten Genocide -
The Story of the Ethnic Germans
Memories of a painful secret held for over fifty years are now
finally being brought to light. THE FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE: The Expulsion after
WWII, is an in-depth, feature length documentary that examines the sufferings
put upon Ethnic Germans living behind the Iron Curtain. Through interviews with
survivors, the memory of this sad period in human history is preserved, and
hopefully provides peace to the almost 15 million souls lost.
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How three million
Germans died after VE Day
Nigel Jones reviews After the Reich:
From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift by Giles MacDonogh
Giles MacDonogh is a bon viveur and a historian of wine and gastronomy, but
in this book, pursuing his other consuming interest - German history - he serves
a dish to turn the strongest of stomachs. It makes particularly uncomfortable
reading for those who compare the disastrous occupation of Iraq unfavourably
to the post-war settlement of Germany and Austria. -
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'They raped every German
female from eight to 80'
Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed new book about the fall of Berlin, on
a massive war crime committed by the victorious Red Army.
"Red Army soldiers don't believe in 'individual liaisons' with German women,"
wrote the playwright Zakhar Agranenko in his diary when serving as an officer
of marine infantry in East Prussia. "Nine, ten, twelve men at a time - they
rape them on a collective basis."
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Raped
by Red Army soldiers, they talk for the first time
The women were in their 20s when they were raped by Red Army
soldiers invading Germany at the end of World War II. Sixty years later, close
to two million women are talking about their ordeal for the very first time.
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Charter of the German
Expellees
Conscious of their responsibility before God and men, conscious
of their affiliation to the Western Christian community, conscious of their
German origin, and realizing the common task of all nations of Europe, the elected
representatives of millions of expellees, after careful deliberation and after
having searched their conscience, have resolved to make public a so-lemn declaration
to the German people and to the entire world, defining both the duties and the
rights which the German expellees consider their basic law and an indispensable
pre-condition for the establishment of a free and united Europe. -
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