Historian William Henry Chamberlin discussing the post-WWII ethnic cleansing of ethnic-German civilians from Eastern Europe: “some fourteen million in all … driven from their homes … where their ancestors had lived for centuries …”
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"... perhaps as many as three million may have perished either as a result of outright massacre or from cold, hunger, and disease."
The horrific experience of an East Prussian woman was typical: Expelled from her home, and then robbed of food and clothing; traveling in train cars “littered with corpses.”
"In Danzig, the car was stopped for three days; again we had nothing to eat." "… the Russians slipped across to our train to rob us of our last possessions." Later, arriving at a cold, teeming refuge camp - "We no longer possessed anything."
Millions dead and hordes of sick, famished refugees arriving in a bombed-out, hungry land. The result of a deliberate Allied policy for collective punishment of non-combatants, mostly women, children, and the infirm.
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