A comment left at wipipedia:
In the book, de Zayas claims that approximately two million
Germans died during the post period of 1944-1949, although most recent research
on the subject has put the number at around half a million.
In fact, the most recent research has been conducted by de Zayas and published 2012 in his "50 Theses on the Expulsion of the Germans" ISBN 978-3-9812110-4-7
There, on pp. 55-58 de Zayas convincingly explains that none
of the "recent research" is professional or methodologically reliable
and that therefore one must continue to rely on the demographic studies of the
Statistisches Bundesamt and those of Dr. Fritz Peter Habel and Gerhard
Reichling.
Although, according to a study at the German Federal
Archives of 1974, at least half a
million were murdered directly, succumbing to beatings, dying of rape, shooting
etc., a million and a half died as a direct consequence of the expulsions,
since these were brutal and disorderly and Germany was in a state of total
collapse upon their arrival -- so that a humanitarian catastrophe ensued, as
abundantly reported in United States and British official memoranda and
studies.
Moreover, nearly two million East Germans were carted off to
slave labor in the Soviet Union and some 40% of them perished on the way to the
Urals and Siberia, during their hard years of slave labor, or during their
repatriation.
Attempting to reduce the number of German dead from 2.2
million to half a million is as obnoxious as attempting to reduce the number of
Holocaust dead from six million to one million as some revisionists do.
Dr. Raymond Lohne, Columbia College Chicago 70.89.220.194
(talk) 15:53, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
