The ethnic cleansing of Germans traced causality back to Nazi resettlement crimes

Evidence

For comparison to be successful, one must appreciate that, rather than forced migration or ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust was an act of genocide, the attempt to eliminate the biological substance of a race, and both the Holocaust and the ethnic cleansing of Germans were part of a chain reaction triggered by the Nazi regime, which (with some popular German support) had already begun moving Baltic Germans into ethnically cleansed regions conquered in Poland in 1939. … The displacement of Germans and even the displacement of Palestinians after World War II i nd signii cant causality from preceding Nazi crimes in Europe, which uprooted so many peoples and drove them to settle elsewhere. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1625

Categorization

• XREF: The chain-reaction causal framing speaks to the reader’s interest in whether manufactured-enemy solidarity narratives can absorb their own moral origins. — connects to: Expellees transposed acknowledged Nazi crimes onto their Polish persecutors to deny German guilt — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 698; The Holocaust derived its meaning from a larger Nazi resettlement scheme; A constructed shared victimhood unified diverse displaced German groups. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 184

Broader Connections

• The Holocaust derived its meaning from a larger Nazi resettlement scheme #corroborates (0.85)