Author : Marco Siddi
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783659233418
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (334 download)
Book Synopsis Cared for Or Abandoned? by : Marco Siddi
Download or read book Cared for Or Abandoned? written by Marco Siddi and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1945 the war had come home for Nazi Germany. On 12 January, the Red Army launched a major offensive in the East and broke the German lines. In East Prussia, the easternmost province of the Third Reich, no civilian evacuation plan had been prepared. More than a million ethnic Germans, mostly women, children and the elderly, attempted to escape the encirclement of the Red Army. They left their houses on horse carts or on foot, in the bitter cold of the Eastern European winter. How did the Nazi welfare organizations deal with this mass of refugees? Could the lives of thousands of German civilians have been saved? This book analyzes one of the most unexplored crimes that the Nazi regime perpetrated against its own population at the end of the Second World War.