After WWII?

Question

The nazi plan during WWII was to eliminate and or exile poles, russians and other slavic races so that germans could colonize those areas. So after having suffered through german brutality, why didn't russian/polish armies clip the german population after the war?

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Answer 1

Blackstroke,
for any person that thinks there was not a "clipping" of the German population then obviously that person has not read Max Hastings Armegeddon: The Battle for Germany September 1944 - May 1945. Follow this link: http://www.amazon.com/Armageddon-Germany-1944-1945-Max-Hastings/dp/0375414339

Additionally, this is a movie that was nominated for an Oscar in the Foreign Films category that would provide a good visual to the book mentioned above: http://www.downfallthefilm.com/

Lastly, I will merely state that 5 million German Citizens lost their lives as a result of the close of WW II. Another 2.5 million would die after the war as a result of injuries sustained during the close (last 9 months of the war). This estimate is the best estimate available to date and to boot this does NOT include the countless amounts innocent Jews, Gypsies, mentally incapcitated and others who did not "fit" the racial profile of Hitler's Germany.

The bad thing about all of this is that the Corporal from WW I was the main reason for this destruction in the final days of the war. He was determined to have the country in complete and utter ruin if it could NOT be what "he" envisaged it to be.

Good question - but please do some reading and research to discover the truth on your own. This is of course is merely a suggestion.

Have a good day!

Answer 2

In a way they did when they split up Germany between the three nations and, invited France to become one of them.

The German soldiers that were captured during the war were not freed right away. A very good friend of mine that lived in Minneapolis was a German infantryman. He was captured and kept for over ten years in a concentration camp at the Gulag. He was released he believes only because they needed the room for their own people, the Soviets at the Gulag Archipelago.
He returned to an empty country and immigrated to America where he started life anew.

The plan your speaking of, I have never heard of it. The Germans wanted the oil fields at the Southern Baltic areas, the only way was to conquer the Soviets. The Poles were almost wiped out for fighting the Germans instead of surrendering, like France did. My own relatives were arrested in Poland and never heard of again. The other Slavic nations were met with the same fate if they denied Hitler his convictions.

Answer 3

The elimination or removal of germans was not part of Soviet war objectives although there was displacement of some Germans as the pre-war boundaries of some East European countries moved westwards and many displaced persons ended up in what was to become the new boundaries of East and West Germany. The Soviets created a buffer of client states between themselves and the divided Germany.

Answer 4

The Russian army did "clip" the East German population to a large extent near the end and shortly after the war. There were massacres and widespread rape when the Russians entered East Prussia and Germany. After the war, most everything of value was shipped back to Russia. The Russians did not want to liquidate the Germans as they Germans would have liked to have done to them however because the Allies would not have appreciated it and Russia eventually sought to install friendly communist governments to form a buffer between Russia and Western Europe (the Warsaw Pact) For a good read about it see Antony Beever's book "Berlin."

Answer 5

The majority of the populace was guilty not of planning the atrocities, but of turning a blind eye to them. Most of the real bad guys got caught and convicted or escaped to other continents.
However, there was quite a lot of hardship for the Germans following WWII-a good friend of mine was a child in Germany during that period-food, clothing and even shelter were very hard to come by.

Answer 6

The Soviets were more civilised than the Nazis and, although there were some reprisals immediately after the war, it was never official policy to use genocide against the losers