What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The First World War, with its tragic tragedy, is known as the war that ended all wars.
The Europeans, who suffered greatly, did not learn their lessons, but for more than two decades, a larger World War II was fought.
World War II was the most brutal battle in human history, especially the Soviet-German battlefield, which was completely a purgatory on earth.
In the letter from heinrich Cook, a military medical assistant, there is such a letter -
July 23, 1942:
Recently, a very useful gossip spread in the troops that we were going to change our defenses to the Netherlands or France. For small children need to use dolls, for the need to be a soldier with rumors, wait and see, at least such rumors will not give people a headache...
(Old german photo of Stalingrad)
At this time, just 6 days after the battle of Stalingrad, such rumors spread among the German army.
The soldier needs to be coaxed with rumors, and it seems that he feels that these untrue words are deliberately put up by the wind above-
After this battle, we will go to Western Europe.
The 6th Army eventually failed and Cook disappeared.
On May 8, 1945, the war in Europe was over for the soldiers.
But the war for civilians has only just begun.
Time magazine wrote in a thrilling stroke of the pen that words—
Europe has transitioned from the most terrible war in history to the most terrible peace.
Peace has arrived, but why terror?
One word —
retaliation.
At the meeting of the Triumvirates in Tehran, the british and American bosses agreed that as soon as the war was over, half of Poland's territory would be ceded to the Soviet Union, and Poland would compensate for taking the east of Germany.
Can the land be divided in this way?
Not only is it theoretically possible, but it is also true in practice.
Poland had been destroyed for hundreds of years, and their restoration was negotiated by the European powers.
What kind of homeland, etc., is not very important to the Poles, whose borders are constantly changing.
So, when their western part was taken into the hands of the Soviets, they drove out the Germans in East Prussia, Silesia, and other places in the same direction.
(Surrendered German civilians)
A veteran named Schumann said that even though that history has passed for decades, he still has no good feelings for poles .
They were driven out of their homeland by the Russians, and their country was pushed westward like a piece of ice floes, and as a result they drove the Germans so mercilessly on German soil.
It is acceptable if it is only to be expelled, after all, it is true that the war was waged by the Germans, as the Potsdam Proclamation stated:
The German people must bear military defeat and cannot escape the responsibilities they have to take on for their actions, and they wage ruthless wars ...
The sins of Germany in World War II are not only the backs of those who live in the temple, but without the fanaticism of the whole nation, a madman cannot be crazy at will.
In this regard, the Germans themselves have expectations, so it is expected to be driven back to their homeland -
Although most of the property has since been lost, it is possible to return to the home country.
The more crucial retaliation was the onslaught of the people of the occupied power on the local Germans.
In Yugoslavia, 50,000 Germans died in concentration camps;
In Poland, more than 3,300 towns and villages have seen violent incidents against German civilians;
In the Czech Republic, the first to suffer the Nazi occupation, more than 30,000 Germans died.
The victims, mostly women and children —
That is, the most vulnerable group.
(Expelled Germans)
Just as these things happened, a large number of women were being humiliated in the city of Berlin...
These things may seem barbaric, but in essence they are a total outburst of repressed emotions.
It has left a deep imprint on the soul of the Germans.
Let the initiators of the two great wars know that everything has a cause and effect.
If you don't want to suffer this kind of suffering again, you can only love peace.