Mike Walsh

Reflections from the defeated Reich's viewpoint are rare to say the least. History is of course the propaganda of the victors. There is little interest in the truth when triumphalism, rape and pillage are dominant. Is there a more loathsome reason behind what celebrated American historian Harry E. Barnes, described as Britain's Iron Curtain of Discreet Silence? Shame and disgrace are terrible burdens. George F. Kennan, ambassador to the USSR and Yugoslavia adds, "The Red Army swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the Asiatic hordes." If the cataclysmic fate that befell the defeated Reich is mentioned it is accompanied by one-sided victors' spin. A frontline war correspondent described the ethnic genocide of 15 million Germans, the rape of millions of girls and women as 'the worst excesses since Genghis Khan.' Such were the horrors inflicted by the Allies on the unfortunate survivors of the Reich their story needs to be more widely known. Modern Europe deserves better than the propaganda of the victors.

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