A Terrible Revenge

A Terrible Revenge is a book about the ethnic cleansing of Germans by the communists and fanatical Slav nationalists in Eastern Europe at the close of World War II and in the subsequent year. The book is by the renowned Professor Alfred Maurice de Zayas, a lawyer & historian who worked for over twenty years for the United Nations as Secretary of their Human Rights Committee.

The London Times newspaper wrote of this book:

This is the story of the ethnic Germans who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some two million died [or were murdered] and fifteen million were displaced - driven from their lands by those opposed to anyone and everything German.

The book describes the millions of refugees and displaced [expelled] persons wandering across Eastern Europe in one of the most brutal and chaotic migrations in history. All over Eastern Europe the inhabitants of communities, villages, towns and cities were raped, mutilated, murdered. Those lucky enough to survive either fled or were expelled.

See also: Czech Hell

See also: Sudetenland

See also: Danzig

See also: Mass rapes by Allied forces during World War II

Sources

• De Zayas, Alfred Maurice, A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, Second edition, Palgrave-Macmillan, New York and England, May 2006, ISBN-10: 1-4039-7308-3.