Orderly and Humane

The award-winning history of 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: “a major achievement” ( New Republic ). Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between 12 and 14 million civilians, most of them women and children. And the losses were horrifying: at least five hundred