The Allied Purges in Europe 1944-1947 edit
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The Allies of World War II engaged into many purges ( the often violent and sudden removal of people from an area, country; a.k.a Forced migration) of several Civilian groups within their Occupied Territories. These civilians include, but not limited to: Germans, Hungarians, Transylvanian Saxons, Donauschwaben, Sudetenland Germans, Slovaks, Crimean Tatars, etc. Many of these purges occurred during hostilities and prior to the Armistice and later Potsdam Agreement. All Allied purges occurred prior to the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty under the administration of the Allied Control Council.
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Refugees of World War II in Germany.
- The European Atrocity You Never Heard About
- A documentary film about the expulsion of the Germans from Hungary
- Timothy V. Waters, On the Legal Construction of Ethnic Cleansing, Paper 951, 2006, University of Mississippi School of Law (PDF)
- Interest of the United States in the transfer of German populations from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, and Austria, Foreign relations of the United States: diplomatic papers, Volume II (1945) pp. 1227–1327 (Note: Page 1227 begins with a Czechoslovak document dated 23 November 1944, several months before Czechoslovakia was "liberated" by the Soviet Army.) (Main URL, wisc.edu)
- Frontiers and areas of administration Foreign relations of the United States (the Potsdam Conference), Volume I (1945), wisc.edu
- History and Memory: mass expulsions and transfers 1939-1945-1949 M. Rutowska, Z. Mazur, H. Orłowski
- Forced Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, 1939–1950
- „Unsere Heimat ist uns ein fremdes Land geworden...“ Die Deutschen östlich von Oder und Neiße 1945–1950. Dokumente aus polnischen Archiven. Band 1: Zentrale Behörden, Wojewodschaft Allenstein
- Dokumentation der Vertreibung (in German)
- Displaced Persons Act of 1948
- Flucht und Vertreibung Gallerie- Flight & Expulsion Gallery
- Deutsche Vertriebenen – German Expulsions (Histories & Documentation)