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Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War by R. M. Douglas
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601325 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War
Author: R. M. Douglas
Narrator: Paul Woodson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 20 hours 47 minutes
Release date: December 13, 2022
Genres: Military
Publisher's Summary:
The award-winning history of twelve million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: 'a major achievement' (New Republic). Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between twelve and fourteen million civilians, most of them women and children. And the losses were horrifying: at least five hundred thousand people, and perhaps many more, died while detained in former concentration camps, locked in trains, or after arriving in Germany malnourished, and homeless. In this authoritative and objective account, historian R. M. Douglas examines an aspect of European history that few have wished to confront, exploring how the forced migrations were conceived, planned, and executed, and how their legacy reverberates throughout central Europe today. The first comprehensive history of this immense manmade catastrophe, Orderly and Humane is an important study of the largest recorded episode of what we now call 'ethnic cleansing.' It may also be the most significant untold story of World War II.
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By thebookvoice.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601325 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War
Author: R. M. Douglas
Narrator: Paul Woodson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 20 hours 47 minutes
Release date: December 13, 2022
Genres: Military
Publisher's Summary:
The award-winning history of twelve million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: 'a major achievement' (New Republic). Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between twelve and fourteen million civilians, most of them women and children. And the losses were horrifying: at least five hundred thousand people, and perhaps many more, died while detained in former concentration camps, locked in trains, or after arriving in Germany malnourished, and homeless. In this authoritative and objective account, historian R. M. Douglas examines an aspect of European history that few have wished to confront, exploring how the forced migrations were conceived, planned, and executed, and how their legacy reverberates throughout central Europe today. The first comprehensive history of this immense manmade catastrophe, Orderly and Humane is an important study of the largest recorded episode of what we now call 'ethnic cleansing.' It may also be the most significant untold story of World War II.