Date:         Wed, 17 May 1995 11:36:32 -0500
Reply-To:     H-NET List on German History <H-GERMAN@MSU.EDU>
Sender:       H-NET List on German History <H-GERMAN@MSU.EDU>
From:         H-GERMAN EDITOR Dan Rogers <drogers@jaguar1.usouthal.edu>
Subject:      Re: Victimization

Submitted by:   Charlie Ingrao <INGRAO@vm.cc.purdue.edu>

Roland Wagner's commentary about the mistreatment of the east European
Germans was not only well-taken, but rather restrained in scope.  At the
risk of stirring a hornet's nest of controversy, I would ask our
colleagues to contemplate the guilt (if any) of all 14 million Germans who
were expelled from Pomerania, the Prussias, Silesia, the Sudetenland, the
Banat, the Voivodina, and other regions not mentioned in Mr. Wagner's
letter.  Aside from those who committed war crimes of various sorts, can
they be held accountable for serving their country in wartime, however
misplaced their loyalty may may have been?
.