ABSTRACT
If the conscience of men ever again becomes sensitive, these expulsions will be remembered to the undying shame of all who committed or connived at them. The Germans were expelled, not just with an absence of over-nice consideration, but with the very maximum of brutality. Retrospectively one may well be of the opinion that the Western Allies underestimated the difficulties involved in transplanting the Germans; yet, placing this historical event in its proper context, one realizes that in the summer of 1945 the expulsion of the Germans appeared to most politicians as an anti-climax to the war. The relatively few reports that appeared in contemporary British and American newspapers reveal a uniform picture of misery and death among the German expellees. Winston Churchill, one of the principal architects of the expulsion policy, was among the first to express his concern about the manner in which this policy was being implemented.
