Silesian genocide
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Allied War Crimes
[This was the forced expulsion of millions of German's, where 60-80,000 perished in Polish camps after the war, exposed by John Sack, mostly run by Jews, while estimates put the death total from starvation and disease at 2.1 million. This death rate is about half for the combined 3 Auschwitz camps over the war (150,000), Auschwitz Death Books, released by the Soviet government in 1991---1940-45: Auschwitz Death records.]
[1998] Israelis Protect Concentration Camp Boss
[1994] Poles Review Postwar Treatment of Germans
Behind An Eye for An Eye. Revenge, Hate and History by John Sack
[1993] The CommandantEisenhower Telegram to the War Department, 18 October 1945 Due to mass migrations into Brandenberg and Saxony, health conditions in these regions tragically low. There is unprecedented lack of food, medical supplies, and doctors. Reasonable estimates predict between 2.5 and 3 million victims of malnutrition and disease between Oder and Elbe by next spring.
Plan for the Expulsion of the German population, 22 November 1945
Book
An
Eye for An Eye by John Sack
See: Salomon Morel Swietochlowice camp
Quotes
[2001] Behind An Eye for An Eye. Revenge, Hate
and History by John Sack Lola had told me the people in her prison were
German soldiers. And yes, twenty of them were German soldiers, men who worked as
painters, carpenters, and such. But there were a thousand other prisoners there,
and they were German civilians: German men, German women, German children.
One prisoner was a fourteen-year-old boy. He had been out in
Gleiwitz wearing his boy scout pants. A man cried out, “You’re wearing black
pants! You’re a fascist!,” and he chased the boy and tackled him at the Church
of Saint Peter and Paul, and then took him to Lola’s prison. Now, the boy was
completely innocent. So were most of the people in Lola’s prison. They weren’t
Gestapo. They weren’t SS. They weren’t even Nazis. Out of a thousand prisoners,
just twenty were ever even accused of it.
All in all, sixty to eighty thousand Germans died.
Some were killed by Jews, some by Catholics, and many by typhus, dysentery, and
starvation, but sixty to eighty thousand died in the custody of the Office of
State Security. Now, someone, a German, once told me that this was another
holocaust. Well, I’m sure it seemed like a holocaust to the Germans.
We all know about Auschwitz. But I have to tell you, the
Germans in Lola’s prison were worse off than Lola had been at Auschwitz. Lola at
Auschwitz wasn’t locked in a room night and day. She wasn’t tortured night after
night. She herself told me: “Thank God, nobody tried to rape us. The Germans
weren’t allowed to.” But all of that happened to German girls at Lola’s prison
in Gleiwitz.
In the Office of State Security, the lower ranks were Polish
Catholics, but most of the leaders were Polish Jews. The chief of the Office in
Warsaw was a Jew. (When I was in Poland he wasn’t alive, but I met some of his
family.) The department directors, all or almost all of them, were Jews.
In Silesia, the province where Lola was commandant, the director of
the Office of State Security was a Jew. I met him in Copenhagen, a little
bald-headed man. The director of prisons was also a Jew. I met his whole family
in Tel Aviv. The secretary of state security was a Jew. I met him time and again
at his home in New Jersey. And in the Office of State Security in Silesia in
February 1945, of the officers – not the enlisted men, not the guards, but the
lieutenants, captains and such – one-fourth were Catholics, and three-fourths
were Jews.