During World War II, Germany and Japan brought deep disasters to the peoples of Europe and Asia, respectively, and of course, these two fascist regimes eventually disappeared, but the liquidation against them did not stop.
What is the first thing to do? Sweep the invaders out, of course! In Asia, the Japanese were swept out of the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, and the Korean Peninsula, and Chinese magnanimous, basically did not embarrass the Japanese, but the Japanese who were captured by the Soviet Union were miserable, and a large number of them died after working hard for a long time.
With the evacuation of Japanese overseas Chinese from Huludao, China has absolutely no moral debt to Japan!
However, things in Asia are still relatively straightforward, because the Japanese originally only lived in the mainland, and there was no distribution in other places (originally the Japanese had "Wakan" in the Korean Peninsula in ancient times, but they were also eliminated later), so Asia only needed to drive the Japanese back.
But the european matter is complicated, first of all, Europeans are tit-for-tat, Germans can not get any good treatment, according to statistics, the German army was captured by the Soviet army after being tortured to death about 363,300 people, civilians killed about 2.2 million people (mainly East Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania and eastern Germany and german residents in german-controlled areas).
Germans after World War II
And that's not all, the Germans of Central and Eastern Europe, get out of here, but the problem is that these Germans are not necessarily invaders, many of them have lived here for hundreds or even thousands of years for generations, they are indigenous peoples!
What's going on? This is actually related to the historical Germanic migration, as early as the Middle Ages, the Germanic languages in the Holy Roman Empire moved eastward and settled in Central and Eastern Europe, which is the "Eastward Migration Movement", which is not the expansion of force, but the migration of immigrants, most of the migration movement is peaceful (sometimes violent due to special historical events), and even supported by the rulers of Eastern Europe at that time (such as the kings of the Slavic countries), after all, people also have to move.
Therefore, a large number of Germans were distributed here long before the war, and many of these places were later occupied by the Germans, most notably the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
However, in the eyes of Eastern Europeans, World War II was waged by the Germans, and the entire German nation had to bear the blame, and in the later part of the Second World War and at the end of the war, millions of German citizens (regardless of ethnicity or whether associated with Nazi Germany) and people of German descent (regardless of nationality) were forced to migrate back to Germany from other European countries.
The liquidation affected the eastern territories of the former German Empire (which belonged to Poland and the Soviet Union after the war) and the areas occupied by Nazi Germany (including Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, northern Yugoslavia and other Central and Eastern European countries), and the number of people affected?
By 1950, more than 12 million Germans were forced to migrate or expelled from Central and Eastern Europe!
A large number of German residents in Eastern Europe
12 million people, how scary is that number? You must know that a large country in Europe at that time was 40-50 million people. And if you add the post-1950 migrant population and the children of the migrant population, the total will reach 14 million! Most of these people returned to Germany and Austria.
Some of these people should not have stayed here, such as the local officials and colonists of the Nazi occupation of Eastern and Western Europe, which had a population of up to 1 million, in addition to 7 million from Poland and the Soviet Union, and 3 million from Czechoslovakia.
According to statistics, Poland expelled a total of 6.1 million German residents, Hungary expelled 623,000, Romania drove out 786,000, Yugoslavia expelled 500,000 ...
This was revenge, because the Germans had previously wanted to assimilate these places completely, and the Nazi "Master Plan for the East" aimed at eliminating more than 45 to 70 million "undescribed populations" from Central and Eastern Europe, although this plan ultimately failed to materialize with the defeat of the war. But a large number of German immigrants were resettled here.
It is a matter of course to sweep them back, which is in fact a readjustment of geopolitics and ethnic distribution in post-war Europe, partly by the war itself, to part by changes in European politics, and as compensation for wartime atrocities.
The Germans fled their homeland
However, such migrations cannot be completely peaceful, with the number of deaths generally estimated to be between 500,000 and 2.2 million according to statistics on evictions and migrations, and the German government insists that the death toll is in the range of 2 million to 2.5 million, but in recent years German historians have estimated this figure at 473,000 and considered the 1.9 million estimate unreliable. The German History Museum estimates 600,000 people, which does not support the findings of the previous government estimate of 2 million people.
However, there are still many Germans who are completely innocent, such as the Germans in the Sudetenland, who have lived here for generations, but also received reprisals after the war, more than 3 million people were basically expelled, only 240,000 local Germans remained after the war, the property of the Germans in the Czech country was placed under the control of the state, and the land was confiscated. I can only run.
Worse still, East Prussia, which belonged to Germany even after world war I (during the war, the Germans conquered western Poland and expanded east Prussia), and after World War II, northern East Prussia was assigned to the Soviet Union and renamed Kaliningrad Oblast, while southern East Prussia was assigned to Poland, where most of the German population was deported back to East Germany or exiled to Siberia. In early 1945, some Germans wanted to return to East Prussia after the war, but all were expelled by Soviet troops, and many were assigned to the Soviet Union as hard laborers. All German local names were changed to Russian or Polish.
East Prussia
The Germans, who had become refugees, were also bullied by Poles or Russians who hated them on the road to deportation, the New York Times reporter reported: "A large number of German residents were crammed into a cramped train, some lying on the roof, some hanging on the side of the car, and children were tied to vents, collector tubes, and iron railings with ropes." The carriages were not heated and did not provide enough food. From time to time, Poles attacked migrant caravans and robbed refugees of their belongings. ”
This is revenge, there is no morality, it is revenge, you have taken my land and slaughtered my people, and now I am going to kill them back, and there are millions of Germans who have nothing to do with the Nazis affected by this part of the trend.