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...student in philosophy, Having been deported by the Germans to the concentration-camp of Auschwitz (Upper Silesia), known for its atrocities, after having suffered endless ill-treatment, I returned to my country in a state of malnutrition that you may well imagine...
Died. Gerhart Hauptmann, 83, world-famed, Nobel Prizewinning German poet-dramatist; in Agnetendorf, in now-Polish Silesia. A lone light in Germany's end-of-the-century literary darkness, he passed from his era's realism and social protest (The Weavers) to a new era's symbolistic fantasy (The Sunken Bell); in his old age was seized upon as a symbol of German culture by both the Nazis and their Soviet conquerors...
...lumbered out of Bremerhaven, the U.S. Army wives newly arrived in Germany got their first view of the ruins of bombed-out towns, the ill-dressed people. At one stop they looked across the platform at a dingy line of boxcars, jammed with German women and children returned from Silesia, shabby and impassive in defeat. Said one wife: "This makes me sick at my stomach. Not out of sympathy. It's civilization eating itself...
...been best expressed in the pastoral letter striking at Allied occupation policies which Catholic bishops had tried to circulate in the non-Bavarian sections of the U.S. zone, then withdrawn at the request of the U.S. Army. It had hit "the revolting proceedings in eastern Germany, especially in Silesia and the Sudeten region, where more than ten millions of Germans are most brutally driven from their ancestral homes without any investigation, whether personally guilty or not." The bishops turned to the west and denounced extreme denazification, "by the dismissal of thousands of officials ... by the arrest of thousands of others...
Unlucky Millions. Few happy endings have come out of the mass migrations of at least nine million Germans from East Prussia, Danzig, Silesia, Pomerania and the Sudetenland. It is a tale of horror, old men starving on the roads, young girls raped in boxcars, children who will never find their parents or remember anything of childhood except cold and hunger and the fear of more cold and hunger...