Tag Archives: WW2
Ethnic Cleansing By Any Other Name
Russia’s unprovoked and devastating war with Ukraine with as many as 12 million refugees on the move in and outside Ukraine brings to mind another massive refugee crisis in Eastern Europe, when at the end of WWII at the July … Continue reading
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Tagged East Prussia, Ethnic Cleansing, expulsions, Germany, Harry Truman, Josef Stalin, Kaliningrad Oblast, Konigsberg, Potsdam Agreement, Winston Churchill, WW2
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The Largest Maritime Disaster in History
On the 30th of January, 1945, the Soviet submarine S-13 attacked and sank the MV Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic sea with as many as 10,000 refugees on board, and in so doing caused the largest maritime disaster in recorded … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander marinesko, Grossadmiral Dönitz sea bridge, Kaliningrad, maritime disaster, MV Wilhelm Gustloff, WW2
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