Seventy-known historians from Germany and abroad (Poland, Israel, Czech and U.S.) have signed a letter protesting the decision last Thursday by the Bundestag, a historical document that considered ambiguous regarding responsibility for German World War II . The adoption of the "Charter of the expelled Germans" of the war is a "historical wrong political signal," say the historians.
Adopted on 10 with the votes of Democrats and Liberals and the opposition Social Democrats, Green and Die Linke, the Charter is a preliminary step to establishing a specific day official memory of Germans expelled after the war, on 5 August. That day in 1950, the Charter was proclaimed by representatives of the expellees in Stuttgart.
It is estimated that some 13 million Germans were expelled from the German territories lost to the Third Reich, or formerly colonized by Germans in East Prussia, Eastern Pomerania, East Brandenburg, Silesia, Danzig (Gdansk), the Baltic countries, Poland, Hungary , Yugoslavia and Romania.
Over two million died in that operation, sanctioned by the Allied powers in Potsdam. The Charter, 1950 proclaims the "right to a homeland" for those expelled in a theological terms are defined almost solely as victims, without the slightest reference to the dramatic overall context, some of whose data are: a total of 30 million expelled of all nationalities at the end of the war in Europe, 6 million Jews, hundreds of thousands of Gypsies and 3.3 million Soviet prisoners killed by the Nazis, 27 million deaths in the Soviet Union, a continent ravaged.
The document of the expelled Germans from 1950 mentioned, without reference to that context, a renunciation of revenge, giving the impression that there is a moral right to it in the German expellees who generously resignation. "God put people in their homeland, after people were violently expelled from her, which means killing them spiritually.
We have suffered this fate and demand the right to a homeland that God gave us as a fundamental right, "the 1950 document blessed by the Bundestag. Historians consider it unacceptable that a document does not mention the Nazi atrocities and assuming the "right to a homeland" introduces ambiguities on the recognition of existing European borders, has been approved by the German parliament.
They also note that there is already an international day established by the UN to the memory of migrants and refugees. The Polish government has rejected the draft declared a day of remembrance of the expelled Germans and its foreign ministry sees "disturbing elements" in the initiative.
"The expulsions were a result of the global war unleashed by Germany," notes the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. "The authors of the Charter does not mention the Nazi crimes, in which later expelled were involved, nor the causes of war and genocide of Jews, nor the" General Plan East ", which included the removal and partial removal between 30 and 50 million "subhuman Slavs" after the final victory, "wrote the Polish historian Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, one of the signatories, in the newspaper" Frankfurter Rundschau ". 
Adopted on 10 with the votes of Democrats and Liberals and the opposition Social Democrats, Green and Die Linke, the Charter is a preliminary step to establishing a specific day official memory of Germans expelled after the war, on 5 August. That day in 1950, the Charter was proclaimed by representatives of the expellees in Stuttgart.
It is estimated that some 13 million Germans were expelled from the German territories lost to the Third Reich, or formerly colonized by Germans in East Prussia, Eastern Pomerania, East Brandenburg, Silesia, Danzig (Gdansk), the Baltic countries, Poland, Hungary , Yugoslavia and Romania.
Over two million died in that operation, sanctioned by the Allied powers in Potsdam. The Charter, 1950 proclaims the "right to a homeland" for those expelled in a theological terms are defined almost solely as victims, without the slightest reference to the dramatic overall context, some of whose data are: a total of 30 million expelled of all nationalities at the end of the war in Europe, 6 million Jews, hundreds of thousands of Gypsies and 3.3 million Soviet prisoners killed by the Nazis, 27 million deaths in the Soviet Union, a continent ravaged.
The document of the expelled Germans from 1950 mentioned, without reference to that context, a renunciation of revenge, giving the impression that there is a moral right to it in the German expellees who generously resignation. "God put people in their homeland, after people were violently expelled from her, which means killing them spiritually.
We have suffered this fate and demand the right to a homeland that God gave us as a fundamental right, "the 1950 document blessed by the Bundestag. Historians consider it unacceptable that a document does not mention the Nazi atrocities and assuming the "right to a homeland" introduces ambiguities on the recognition of existing European borders, has been approved by the German parliament.
They also note that there is already an international day established by the UN to the memory of migrants and refugees. The Polish government has rejected the draft declared a day of remembrance of the expelled Germans and its foreign ministry sees "disturbing elements" in the initiative.
"The expulsions were a result of the global war unleashed by Germany," notes the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. "The authors of the Charter does not mention the Nazi crimes, in which later expelled were involved, nor the causes of war and genocide of Jews, nor the" General Plan East ", which included the removal and partial removal between 30 and 50 million "subhuman Slavs" after the final victory, "wrote the Polish historian Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, one of the signatories, in the newspaper" Frankfurter Rundschau ".
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