A Terrible Revenge

By Alfred-Maurice de Zayas,

Book cover of A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans

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The genocidal barbarism of the Nazi forces has been well documented. What is little known is the fate of fifteen million German civilians who found themselves on the wrong side of new postwar borders. All over Eastern Europe, the inhabitants of communities that had been established for many centuries were…

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1 author picked A Terrible Revenge as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book opened the window to my mom and her sisters’ experiences in the last months of the war. I was blown away. It validated my mom’s memories in a way that no other book had up to this point. Growing up on the Canadian prairies I had little patience for my family’s memories filled with pain and suffering. Finally, I understood, that my mom had her own PTSD... something that I inherited and I feel compelled to explore.

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