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The merciless revenge perpetrated on the entire German civilian
population of Eastern Europe during the closing stages of the war, and
for many months after, took the lives of over 2,100,000 ethnic German
men, women and children. For generations these Germans had lived and
toiled in areas that today are part of central and Eastern Europe.
Around fifteen million of these Volksdeutsche were driven from their
homes and ancestral lands in Poland, East Prussia, Silesia, Ukraine,
Belarus and Serbia and forced back into the Allied occupied zones of
Germany. This was the greatest forcible evacuation of people in European
history. It is estimated that of the eight million Germans expelled
from Poland around 1,600,000 died in the process. In Czechoslovakia,
memories of the Lidice massacre inspired acts of revenge against German
soldiers and civilians. Soldiers were disarmed, tied to stakes, doused
with petrol and set alight. Wounded German soldiers in hospital were
shot in their beds, others were hung up on lamposts in Wenzell Square
and fires were lit beneath them so that they died the gruesome death of
being roasted alive. These ethnic Germans lived in fear of the Russians
but no one thought that the dreadful fate which awaited them would not
even emanate from the Soviets at all but from their own neighbours, the
Czechs!
Thousands of innocent German residents were murdered in their
homes by the Czechs, others were forced into interment camps where they
were beaten and maltreated before being expelled. Bishop Beranek of
Prague declared: 'If a Czech comes to me and confesses to having killed a
German, I absolve him immediately'. The Americans, utterly blind to the
political consequences of allowing the Soviets to liberate
Czechoslovakia, halted at the Karlsbad-Pilsen-Budweis line. The Sudeten
Germans now had no protection from the torrent of bestiality vented on
them by the Czechs. In Brno, 25,000 German civilians were forced marched
at gun-point to the Austrian border. There, the Austrian guards refused
them entry, the Czech guards refused to re-admit them. Herded into an
open field they died by the hundreds from hunger and cold before being
rescued by the US 16th Tank Division on May 8th 1945. In the Russian
occupied zones of Eastern Europe and in Germany, hundreds of thousands
of civilian men and women, Poles, Czechs, Romanians and Germans, were
transported to the Urals in the Soviet Union and used as slave labourers
until released in the late 40s. Mostly ignored by the world's press,
the unimaginable suffering experienced by the expellees is largely
unknown outside Germany, yet it was systematically carried out in a
brutal fashion as official Allied policy in accordance with the
decisions formulated at Yalta and Potsdam.
Around the small Bavarian
village of Postberg (Postoloprty) in the province of Saazerland on the
Bavarian-Czech border, hundreds of German men, women and children were
shot to death during the Czech 'ethnic cleansing'. All German civilian
residents in the province were rounded up by Czech soldiers and
communist partisans and marched to a collection point in Postberg. There
they were interned and beaten, many were executed. On September 17,
1947, a number of mass graves were discovered in and around Postberg.
Thirty-four bodies were found in the village itself, another four nearby
at Weinberg and twenty-six in an old sandpit at Schuladen. At
Lewanitzer, 349 corpses were unearthed and another 103 bodies were
exhumed from another mass grave. Ten corpses were found in a sand pit at
Kreuz along with another 225 bodies in a mass grave at the local
school.
At the military barracks five bodies were found and seven
were buried under house No. 74. During investigations only one Czech,
Vojtech Cerny, admitted to participating in the shooting and killing of
four Germans. In all, a total of 763 Germans were murdered. A law,
passed by the Czech authorities (The Benesch law: No115/1946) stated
that all Czech crimes against Germans were not legible to penalty.
