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> There was no plan to ethnically cleanse them to make room for Soviet citizens in German land. Do the words "East Prussia" ring a bell? How about "Königsberg"
by senderista 6y ago
> There was no plan to ethnically cleanse them to make room for Soviet citizens in German land.
Do the words "East Prussia" ring a bell? How about "Königsberg"?
- the_af 6y agoYes, I'm familiar with the massacre. As horrific as it was, these weren't cases of ethnic cleansing. There was no intent to remove Germans from the face of the Earth, like Generalplan Ost was in regards to Slavs. We know this. How? Because the Nazis stated they wanted Slavs killed, but when the Soviets took over East Germany, they didn't wipe out all Germans (as they would have done, had they been bent on racial genocide as the Nazis were). This is the one example were we can clearly compare plans and see outcomes, and how they differed. Even the scales are orders or magnitude different!