Asinine Allied Agreements

We Americans can claim only a relatively short history of settlement on the North American continent, but it would still come as a terrible blow if we were forcibly driven from our homeland by foreigners, i.e. Mexicans. The Sudeten Germans experienced such an ethnic catastrophe. They resided in settlements that were over 700 years old. Due to allied deals struck before and after World War II ended, millions of Sudeten Germans lost everything except for what they could carry out of Czechoslovakia by hand or cart.

Dr. Rudolf Pueschel, a native of the Sudetenland, describes his own experiences of 1945 and 1946 as a youngster of twelve in his book entitled Expulsion from Czechoslovakia 1945/46. The author and his family were some of those expelled from their ancient homeland. The Czechs used brutality and humiliation from the close of hostilities until their blood thirst was sated. The western powers compounded the sufferings of these Germans by agreements signed at Yalta and Potsdam.

Just who were the Sudeten Germans and why did the allies agree to their expulsion?

In order to fully understand the calamity that befell the Sudeten Germans, it might be useful for you to research the formation of Sudetenland upon the western edges of what was to become the country of Czechoslovakia. National boundaries of European countries were generally not well defined until the 19th century. At the end of World War One, the Versailles Treaty sliced off the Sudeten German population from their German neighbors in the adjoining countries of Germany and Austria. That treaty full of allied hatred and revenge was the foundation stone for the ensuing second European world war.

On Page 2: “Deprived of radios and newspapers, the Germans had no notion of what Edvard Benes declared upon his arrival from exile on May 16, 1945 in the Old-Town Square in Prague: ‘It will be essential to…evacuate the Germans in Czech lands…in uncompromising fashion as may best be accomplished in the interest of a unified state of Czechs and Slovaks. Our watchword must be: A definitive clearance of Germans and German influence from our country in the cultural, economic and political spheres…’”.

From the epilogue on Page 28: “Incredibly, at Potsdam in summer, 1945 Stalin advised Truman not to worry about any violation of human rights associated with the displacement of 3 million Sudeten Germans, because those people would leave Czechoslovakia voluntarily.”

In spite of the fact that U.S. politicians were aware of Czech brutality toward their German citizens beginning at the cessation of the war, the asinine western allies allowed the so-called voluntary removal of Germans to continue unabated.

Beginning in 1945, the Sudeten Germans were required to wear white arm bands. On the cover of this book is a photograph of Germans being expelled. They comprised about one fourth of the population of Czechoslovakia. They were deprived of their livestock, their land, their homes, their furniture and their businesses without compensation from the Czech government. Those Germans have never received compensation for their losses.

The German citizens were either marched out of the country on foot or sent in mass to temporary prison camps and then shuttled out of Czechoslovakia. They were not even allowed to carry their clothing in suitcases. Everything they carried out had to be packed into sacks and even the weight of their belongings was measured by the authorities.

Some families were sent into the eastern part of Germany held by the Soviets and others were forwarded into the western part controlled by Yanks and Brits. They were sent destitute into a land that had been conquered by the sword of burning bombs, a land of devastation, starvation, and humiliation.

The author and his family were forced to give up everything in addition to a family business. They were transported into Soviet occupied Germany and the author attended secondary schools there. He was able to escape into the western sector where he studied at the universities in Frankfurt, West-Berlin and Giessen. He received his M.S. degree in physics in 1962 and emigrated to the U.S. In 1969, he received his doctorate degree in engineering from the University of Washington.

The accomplishments of Dr. Pueschel prove just what kind of material many Germans are made of. Through their strength of character and intellect German people often work hard and are able to rise above personal tragedies.

My 1999 edition of Expulsion from Czechoslovakia 1945/46 by Rudolf Pueschel is paperbound and has 28 pages. It contains two photographs and one illustration. The ISBN number is 0-9663968-2-0. The book sells for $5 including postage and can be ordered from RFP Publications, Post Office Box 4517, Mountain View, CA 94040-4517. Tel. (650) 967-1567. You can e-mail [email protected] or www.rudolf-pueschel.com.

From Page 1: “In the eastern Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains) this has been the case since the middle of the thirteenth century, when German settlers, upon invitation by the ruling Bohemian kings and dukes, arrived to clear and cultivate the land along the country’s frontiers. With the expulsion of the descendants of these German fellow citizens in 1945/46 the Czech government laid the groundwork for the destruction with in a few decades of everything the German settlers had accomplished during 700 years. It is with great satisfaction that I dedicate this documentation to our ancestors as proof that their accomplishments have not been forgotten.”

This sad story should be an eye opener about our own government’s complicity in the ethnic cleansing of the German people after World War II ended. Unfortunately, Czechoslovakia was not the only country wherein the allies ignored such abuses.

By the way, the word asinine derives from a Latin word meaning “of or like an ass.”

The more I study true U.S. history, the more convinced I have become that U.S. politics have been and remain today bedeviled with crooks, clowns and craven asses.

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