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THE DEATH THROES OF A NATION
"Apart from the moral aspects of the matter, the dumping of all these millions of expropriated helpless
people into what remained of a wrecked Germany piles chaos upon chaos and helps to covert the
entire German nation into one vast Belsen or Buchenwald."
Ralph Franklin Keeling, Gruesome Harvest, Institute of American Economics
"These uprooted masses wandered along the main roads; famished, sick and weary, often covered
with vermin, seeking out some country in which to settle....."
"Take also the case of the children. On 27th July 1945 a boat arrived at the west port of Berlin which
contained a tragic cargo of nearly 300 children, half dead from hunger, who had come from a 'home'
at Finkenwalde in Pomerania. Children from two to fourteen-year old lay in the bottom of the boat
motionless, their faces drawn with hunger, suffering from the itch and eaten up with vermin. Their
bodies, feet and knees were swollen - a well-known symptom of starvation."
Joint Relief Commission of the International Red Cross
"Thousands of bodies are hanging in the trees around Berlin and nobody bothers to cut them down.
Thousands of corpses are carried into the sea by the Oder and Elbe Rivers - one doesn't even notice it
any longer. Thousands and thousands are starving in the highways.... children roam the highways
alone; their parents shot, dead, lost." - Congressional Records, December 20th 1945. p.A-6130
"Germany's youth is one the road... they are wandering aimlessly; disillusioned, dissolute, diseased,
and without guidance." - Wireless to New York Times/Chicago Tribune, Frankfurt April13th 1946
Note the date: a year after the war's end.
"In what was once east Germany, an anguished tide of humanity, one of the greatest mass movements
of Germans in history, flowed towards the border of the shrunken Reich. At least, 10,000,000 hungry
Germans were being uprooted from the old homes in East Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, Sudetenland by
the new Polish, Czech and Russian owners.
The wanderers choked the roads in Russian-occupied Germany. Ragged, barefoot, with children in
their arms, and the shabby remains of homes stacked on perambulators, carts and wheelbarrows, they
trudged westwards." - Time Magazine, August 13th 1945
"New in the annals of recorded history, the victors forced millions of Germans from their homes."
The Catholic Bishops in America, November, 1946
".... never has anything so tragic happened on so colossal a scale as in these forced migrations."
Archbishop Alois J. Muench, Lent. 1946
"Nowhere in recorded history has such a grim chapter of brutality been written."
Senator William Langer, April 5th 1949
"Without precedent in history... a crime against humanity for which history will exact a terrible
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