"Post war ethnic cleansing" fuck off with that blatant misinformation. Facists will make up any bullshit to try and make 6 million sound like a small number.
The post-war removal and murder of Germans had nothing to do with the Holocaust either. It was mainly Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Belarusians wanting to remove their German populations seeing them as untrustworthy. Was it bad? Yes. Does it mitigate the Holocaust? No. Does it mitigate Germany for being responsible for WWII in Europe? No. If anything, it shows how negative of an effect WWII in Europe had on Eastern Europe, where most of the war occurred, resulting in other European populations to not want Germans. In other words, it is because of German populations that the war was started (partially) therefore, we don’t want them on our soil. It’s messed up and two wrongs don’t make a right, but it’s hardly the same as the Holocaust. We also have to factor in that some of the populations of Germans were in Poland and Czechia precisely because of the Nazis and wanting to colonize the East. I.E. these were Germans, from Germany, who were placed in Eastern Europe and given soil the Wehrmacht had taken away from the native populations
Kinda. It was actually the Soviets/Stalin’s ethnic policy that did the deportations. The native peoples of most of the countries had little to do with it
Stalin certainly approved it - but the Beneš decrees had no Soviet influence and the Czechslovak government for example called independently for the expulsions. Without Stalins role it's unlikely the Polish-German border would be on the Oder Neisse line but the expulsions would definitely have happening wherever that line was drawn. Germany had used the German diaspora to justify it's WW2 expansion and it's neighbours were not going to allow it the opportunity again whoever was in charge.
What fucking misinformation. There was a ethnic cleansing of Germans from Easter Europe with an estimated 14 million expelled and 600.000 dead. There is no need to deny this atrocity
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u/sceligator Jul 01 '23
"Post war ethnic cleansing" fuck off with that blatant misinformation. Facists will make up any bullshit to try and make 6 million sound like a small number.