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''A Terrible Revenge'', subtitled ''The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944–1950'' is a book written by Cuban-born American lawyer Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, former research fellow at MPG in Heidelberg, Germany. The work is based on a collection of testimonials from German civilians and the Third Reich military personnel; and devoted to the expulsion of Germans after World War II from states previously occupied by the Nazis. It includes as well selected interviews with British and American politicians who participated at the Potsdam Conference, including Robert Murphy, Geoffrey Harrison (drafter of article XIII of the Potsdam Protocol), and Denis Allen (drafter of article IX on the provisional post-war borders). The book attempts to describe the crimes committed against the German nation by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia at the end of World War II – as perceived by the expellees themselves and settlers brought in ''Heim ins Reich'' (Home into the Empire) from the east.〔 The author begins with the history of German settlement in Central and Eastern Europe since the 12th century, the impact of the Treaty of Versailles on German minorities in Poland and Czechoslovakia, the failure of the League of Nations system of minority protection, the outbreak of World War II and selected crimes committed by the Nazis, followed by the story of refugees from the former Eastern parts of Germany (Silesia, East Prussia, Pomerania, East Brandenburg), as well as the fate of German minorities in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. In the book, de Zayas claims that approximately two million Germans died during the post period of 1944-1949, although most recent research on the subject has put the number at around half a million. ==Printing history== The book originated as a script for a television documentary by the Bavarian Broadcasting. It was a popular rendition of the author's monography on the expulsions called the ''Nemesis at Potsdam'' ((ドイツ語:Die Nemesis von Potsdam)). This shorter introduction to the subject was published in German as ''Anmerkungen zur Vertreibung der Deutschen aus dem Osten'' (4 editions during 1986-1996, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-17-009297-9), first printed in English under the title of ''The German Expellees: Victims in War and Peace'' (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993, Macmillan, London). The new, 1994 English title, included the then neologism "ethnic cleansing", used at that time in relation to the crimes committed by Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina of the 1990s. The 5th expanded German 2006 edition was titled ''Die deutschen Vertriebenen'' (Leopold Stocker Verlag, ISBN 3-902475-15-3). The book ends with 12 historical theses, 14 legal theses and 10 conclusions. It was positively reviewed in Germany by Andreas Hillgruber in the Historische Zeitschrift and Gotthold Rhode in the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung''.〔See (Alfreddezayas.com PDF file ) and the review by Matthias Stickler in the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' "Fast ein Klassiker" (July 31, 2006) available at (FAZ.net )〕 The 2006 English edition was expanded by about 20%. It contains additional information from interviews with the children of the displaced, German expellees who migrated to the United States and Canada, new photos and new statistical tables. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Terrible Revenge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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