Aha! So in your view the criminality of a government authorizes the victorious parties in a war to commit atrocities against the losing civilian population? Care to explain how this differs from the ideology of the Nazis?
When these atrocities were occurring in 1946-1948, the Pope condemned them as a "Crime against humanity without parallel in history." And its true. There has never been another time, at least in European history when over 20,000,000 people (Germans, Poles, Balts, and Hungarians) were forcibly uprooted from their homes, all of their landmarks defaced or destroyed and 5,000,000 of them killed, with nearly all the women raped.
Where are your grandparents from?
My grandparents are from Indiana (paternal grandmother), Ohio (paternal grandfather), upstate New York (maternal grandfather), and Florida (maternal grandmother). All of my family, save two immigrants from around the time of the Civil War (one from Norway, one from Switzerland), have been in this country since the 1750's. The first came over in 1625.
If you are referring to my ethnic origins, my paternal line is 100% Swiss German from the Alpine region and its foothills, mostly Canton Bern, my maternal line is 75% English/Norman mostly from Gloucestershire, Yorkshire, Wessex, and East Anglia and 25% Norwegian from the area near Oslo.
When these atrocities were occurring in 1946-1948, the Pope condemned them as a "Crime against humanity without parallel in history." And its true. There has never been another time, at least in European history when over 20,000,000 people (Germans, Poles, Balts, and Hungarians) were forcibly uprooted from their homes, all of their landmarks defaced or destroyed and 5,000,000 of them killed, with nearly all the women raped.
I don't support rape or murder, but relocation can create more stable borders.