FORGOTTEN VOICES: THE EXPULSION OF THE GERMANS FROM EASTERN EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II
Book ID/图书代码： 13149012B55700
English Summary/英文概要： The news agency Reuters reported in 2009 that a mass grave containing 1,800 bodies was found in Malbork, Poland. Polish authorities suspected that they were German civilians that were probably killed by advancing Soviet forces or in their subsequent flight. A Polish archeologist supervising the exhumation, said “We are dealing with a mass grave of civilians, probably of German origin. The presence of children. . . . suggests they were civilians.”
More than sixty years ago the German Nazi regime committed great crimes against innocent civilian victims: Jews, Poles, Russians, Serbs, and other people of Central and Eastern Europe. At war’s end, however, innocent German civilians in turn became victims of crimes against humanity. Forgotten Voices lets these victims of ethnic cleansing tell their story in their own words, so that they and what they endured are not forgotten. This volume is an important supplement to the voices of victims of totalitarianism and has been written in order to keep the historical record clear.
The root cause of this tragedy was ultimately the Nazi German regime as such. As a leading German historian, Hans-Ulrich Wehler has noted “Germany should avoid creating a cult of victimization, and thus forgetting Auschwitz and the mass killing of Russians.” Ulrich Merten argues that applying collective punishment to an entire people, no matter what the circumstances, is a crime against humanity. He concludes that this should also be recognized as a European catastrophe, and not only a German one, because of its magnitude and the broad violation of human rights that occurred on European soil.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 路透社在2009年报道称，在波兰马尔堡的一个大墓地里发现了1800具尸体。波兰当局怀疑他们是德国人，很可能被进攻的苏联军队或后续的航班所杀害。一个监管发掘的波兰考古学家说“我们正在处理一个集体墓穴，很可能是德国后裔，这个墓穴里有孩子，说明他们是平民”。 60多年以前，德国纳粹对无辜平民—犹太人、波兰人、俄国人、塞尔维亚人以及中欧和西欧的人们犯下了滔天罪行。然而在战争结束之际，无辜的德国平民转而变成了反人类罪行的受害者。《遗忘的声音》让这些种族的受害者用他们自己的话讲述他们的故事，为的是让他们不要忘了自己所经历的事情。这本书是极权主义受害者声音的补充并且被写出来为的是保持清楚的历史记录。
这一悲剧的根源是纳粹德国政权。作为一个领先的德国历史学家，汉斯乌尔里希莫指出“德国应避免创建一个受害的邪教，因此忘记奥斯维辛和大规模被屠杀的俄罗斯人”。乌尔里希莫指出不管在何种情况下，运用集体惩罚整个人类，是反人类的罪行。他的结论是：这应该被视为欧洲的灾难，而不仅仅是德国的灾难，因为这种侵犯人类的罪行发生在欧洲的土地上。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 乌尔里希莫出生在德国柏林，在二战前当他是个小孩的时候来到美国。他是一位国际银行家，美国银行的高管，工作几乎只在拉丁美洲和加勒比地区。目前他是一个在古巴的非政府组织参与的机构里的副总裁和财务主管。 Ulrich Merten was born in Berlin, Germany and came to the United States as a small child before the Second World War. He was an international banker and a senior executive of Bank of America, working almost exclusively in Latin America and the Caribbean. Currently he is vice president and treasurer of an non-governmental organization involved in democracy building in Cuba.
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