General Discussion

The author makes it sound as if all of the allies conspired to commit attrocities on German speaking refugees, and this is very far afield from reality.

The refugees from the soon to be iron curtain countries migrated for two basic reasons. The first reason was because they had already seen and heard what was happening to the German speaking peoples as the Soviet army was making it's way towards Berlin. The second reason is because Stalin expelled the remaining German speaking populace from these countries after those countries fell to Russia in order to increase his stranglehold on the region. The allies addressed this issue during the Potsdam agreement only for the intent of trying to mitigate the attrocity. Stalin was already going to deport those people. The only question was how. Had the allies not secured Stalin's agreement to slow the deportations, undoubtedly hundreds of thousands, if not millions more would have died.

The author convieniently omits Stalins exclusive responsibility for the attrocities while simultaneously omitting the rest of the allies' efforts to stem the tide of suffering and death.