Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
There was a poster at TWC who was a descendant of one of these Germans who fled the Soviet advance and lost all they had owned for centuries. He had little time for those who equated this exodus with the deeds of the Nazis, saying that, with all that they'd done, Germany deserved to lose all they did and more. His older family members, who belonged to a generation who still remembered the days before the war, held the same view.
That is interesting, although I still cannot accept the notion that ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe should be held accountable for the actions of the German state. I'm guessing this TWC poster's family were also fortunate enough to end up on the Allied side and not in the Soviet work camps.