updated: Sept. 15, 2007

"So far as the conscience of humanity should ever again become sensitive,
will this expulsion be an undying disgrace for all those who remember it,
who caused it or who put up with it. The Germans have been driven out,
but not simply with an imperfection of excessive consideration,
but with the highest imaginable degree of brutality."

Sir Victor Gollancz
(British-Jewish humanist)
on crimes against the defeated Germans
source: wikipedia.org

"You know, the Romanians have been good to us, at least they have not killed us,
like the Serbs have killed their German population."
- said, some time ago, an old man from Triebswetter to me,
as a conclusion to his account of the years of slaving in coal mines in the East
and later finding himself, with his pregnant wife, in the midst of
thousands of expelled Banater Schwaben, on the bare plains of the Baragan.
Their son was born there, and is ever since psychically disabled.

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