Intellectual honesty

This is a major episode and yet largely ignored the second world war, deportation, in appalling conditions, 13 million Germans often living for centuries in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and Youyoslavie. These populations deportations were undertaken from 1945 to 1947, when the war was over and most often defeated Germany. They have resulted in several million deaths and untold suffering, victims of which were mainly children, women and the elderly. These mass deportations were intended and implemented by the will of the Big Three, especially Churchill and Stalin. This monstrous episode was the subject of a voluntary silence.
His knowledge by the public would have risked dent the black and white image of a war waged in the name of the right against the worst tyranny in history. That during the war, the leaders of the Reich are guilty of extreme horrors is the evidence. But it is no less certain that the enemies of Germany are also shipped to massive horrors against German civilians.

We must therefore pay tribute to the intellectual integrity and courage of RM Douglas, professor of contemporary history at Colgate Unversity which restores in his book very robust marked the history of these deportations. It specifies that the ethnic expulsion of the Germans was "The greatest forced deportation that have had ever seen, the largest population movement in the history of mankind".

The Big Three know that mass expulsions in a disaster and Europe affected by war would result in terrible suffering. But "They considered that it would be a beneficial form of therapy ..."
At the Conference makes Tehran in November 1943, "Churchill was a head to head talks with Stalin and, with three matches, sketched a scenario in which the USSR would have the right to retain the Polish territories conquered in 1939 , in exchange for which the Poles would receive an equivalent German territory to the west. "
A German territory should be emptied of its population. "Stalin was delighted with the concession that Polish interests sacrificed, German and British".
On 15 December 1944, in the Commons who listened in frozen silence, Churchill commented this exchange: "The Poles are free to extend their territory to the west at the expense of Germany This should of course be accompanied. measures to disentangle the people. We must make a big household. I'm not worried at the prospect of work needed to disentangle the population or even to transfer them. After all, Churchill added, 6 or 7 million Germans have already been killed. It is expected that many more Germans were killed in the fighting of spring and summer .. ".
So it would make room for deportees expelled from the East. And it was so.

Dominique Venner, in the NRH, No. 64.