How Three Million Germans Died After VE Day
The Telegraph (Britain)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3664526/How-three-million-Germans-died-after-VE-Day.html... MacDonogh [in his book, After the Reich] argues that the months that followed May 1945 brought no peace to the shattered skeleton of Hitler's Reich, but suffering even worse than the destruction wrought by the war ... The first 200 pages of his brave book are an almost unbearable chronicle of human suffering. His best estimate is that some three million Germans died unnecessarily after the official end of hostilities. A million soldiers vanished before they could creep back to the holes that had been their homes ... The two million German civilians who died were largely the old, women and children: victims of disease, cold, hunger, suicide -- and mass murder.
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