Actually. I think it has. and has welcomed the prospect of wiping out western European institutions and patterns of society in this part of the world. While America sits in judgment against men responsible for enforced deportations of nationals of nonGerman races. we have accepted an arrangement in regard to eastern Germany which has led to the forced deportation from their homes of millions of Germans. or Germanspeaking persons. among them a large proportion of children. Despite the fact that the Potsdam declaration declares that the evacuation of Germans from what has suddenly. by unilateral decision of one ally. become Poland. as well as from Czechoslovakia and other eastern countries. despite the fact that the Potsdam declaration clearly states that this must be halted until it can be carried out in "an orderly and humane manner." the deportations have gone ahead until. according to the report of General Eisenhower himself some time ago. the American zone had already then had to take in half a million of these people. They are arriving penniless. and without more worldly goods than can be carried in a rucksack. They are moving into a country whose war destruction is incomprehensible to those who have not seen Its completely shattered cities and communications. Before their arrival there was a drastic insufficiency of dwellings for the concentrated population of what remains of Germany. Millions of persons already have only cellar . holes and bomb shelters in which to live. or Partly bombed apartments without windows. or single rooms in villas where whole families must share a few cubic feet of space in houses inhabited by four or five times the number of persons for which they were designed. Not all these refugees. or evacuees. arrive. of course. at all. Thousands of them perish on the trek from Silesia or Bohemia. Those who arrive are without ration cards. and already in an advanced state of hunger or actual starvation.
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