Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-50
A Nonfiction, Politics, History book. Because both my German parents were in Soviet work camps...
More than 9 million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after World War II—one quarter of the country was annexed, and about 15 million people expelled in the largest act of ethnic cleansing the world has ever known. Over 2 million of these alone, including countless children, died on the road or in concentration camps in Poland and elsewhere. That these deaths occurred at all is still being denied by Western governments.At the same time, Herbert Hoover and Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King created the largest charity in history, a food-aid program that saved an estimated 800 million lives during three years of global struggle against post–World War II famine—a program they had to struggle for years to make...
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780889225671 / 889225672
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