The Nationalities are on the move.

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Thomas Pynchon writes:

"Volksdeutsch [sic! correct German would be 'Volksdeutsche' - kfl] from 
across the Oder, moved out by Poles and headed for the camp at Rostock ..."

Do see in this context --

http://www.amazon.com/Nemesis-Potsdam-Expulsion-Germans-Edition/dp/0803299079

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_at_Potsdam

"A young legal scholar from New York, Alfred de Zayas, has written a 
book on a subject long taboo and ignored by German writers -- the brutal 
expulsion of 16 million Germans from their homelands in Central and 
Eastern Europe after the Red Army moved in... Mr. de Zayas, who is 29 
years old and has a fellowship at the University of Göttingen 
emphasized: ... 'I had taken a number of courses in history at Fordham 
and Harvard and this was just never mentioned. I don't think people 
outside Germany know much about it.' Truman, Churchill and Stalin agreed 
at Potsdam in 1945 that the German populations of Eastern Europe should 
undergo 'transfer to Germany' but 'in an orderly and humane manner'. The 
de Zayas book makes clear that the last provision was not fulfilled." 
(Craig Whitney in /the New York Times/, 13 February 1977)


On 07.09.2015 10:23, Dave Monroe wrote:
> "The Nationalities are on the move."
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> https://books.google.com/books?id=GGPm4I3BbxAC&pg=PA549
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