They needed to push the Soviet borders as far westward as possible. They needed to set up weak or docile or confused governments in a wide area about their own borders. "One precept guided all their tacticskill or drive out the hard core of antiCommunists in Central Europe and we shall have no trouble taking over the rest. The brutal determination with which after the war the Communist leaders insisted refugees from the Soviet Union must be sent back as deserters. was out from the same cloth as the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans. They know if they could drive out the men of firm principle. the softheaded and the ambitious would do their work for them. "You were driven from your homes. but your spirit was not quenched. Even in exile. you formed your own fighting organization. You made yourself a force for anticommunism even when you had no homeland. And you helped all Europe and the United States by your brave refusal to permit Communist agents and their hirelings to get a foothold among the refugees." The Potsdam agreement and the decent deportation of the Sudeten Germans Here are Ripkas. Lettrichs. and Zenkls words: "Following the decision of the Potsdam Conference on the German transfer from Czechoslovakia. Poland. and Hungary. the transfer of the Sudeten Germans was carried out in an orderly manner. When the transfer was completed. the American occupational headquarters sent the Czechoslovak Government a note acknowledging Czechoslovakias strict observance of regulations and decency." During this orderly and decent deportation from their homeland about 300.000 Sudeten Germans lost their lives. The losses The number of losses of the Sudeten Germans which they suffered by the deportation can be substantiated by extensive and exact material we have prepared. They amount to nearly 300.000 dead. not counting those tortured. raped. and beaten. The Sudeten German property stolen by the National Front is estimated at $19.44 billion.
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