Ausgleich is a hybrid book. Fiction--yet with a bibliography One part mainstream history, another part witness statements, both embedded in a fictional matrix. The plot, characters and situations are fictional. Yet Ausgleich rests on a solid historical bedrock that many will find difficult to accept. A second holocaust occurred in WWII. One ignored in the West. The victims? Germans. Though not as draconian as the horrific fate of the Jews, the Germans did in fact suffer their own holocaust as the Allies, both East and West, sought revenge. Fifteen million Germans were disenfranchised and driven from their ancestral homes. And often with great brutality that was eerily reminiscent of the Nazis. Death marches, mass rapes, death camps, slave labor, mass executions, with robberies and beatings, degradations and humiliations daily occurrences in the lives of millions of eastern Germans. In this German holocaust, besides fifteen million people being stripped of their homelands, millions--repeat, millions--of German women were raped, often brutally gang raped and frequently murdered, and between one and two million Germans died in what they called, and still call, Die Vertreibung. The Expulsion. Ausgleich tells this historical reality in a fictional setting. But make no mistake, what happened was not fictional.
It was real.
Ausgleich is a hybrid book. Fiction--yet with a bibliography One part mainstream history, another part witness statements, both embedded in a fictional matrix. The plot, characters and situations are fictional. Yet Ausgleich rests on a solid historical bedrock that many will find difficult to accept. A second holocaust occurred in WWII. One ignored in the West. The victims? Germans. Though not as draconian as the horrific fate of the Jews, the Germans did in fact suffer their own holocaust as the Allies, both East and West, sought revenge. Fifteen million Germans were disenfranchised and driven from their ancestral homes. And often with great brutality that was eerily reminiscent of the Nazis. Death marches, mass rapes, death camps, slave labor, mass executions, with robberies and beatings, degradations and humiliations daily occurrences in the lives of millions of eastern Germans. In this German holocaust, besides fifteen million people being stripped of their homelands, millions--repeat, millions--of German women were raped, often brutally gang raped and frequently murdered, and between one and two million Germans died in what they called, and still call, Die Vertreibung. The Expulsion. Ausgleich tells this historical reality in a fictional setting. But make no mistake, what happened was not fictional.
It was real.
Ausgleich: Scales of Justice
Ausgleich: Scales of Justice
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940046356106 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | James Whitesell |
| Publication date: | 10/18/2014 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| Sales rank: | 400,132 |
| File size: | 375 KB |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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