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"Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable--between 12,000,000 and 14,000,000 civilians, most of them women and children--and the losses horrifying--at least 500,000 people, and perhaps many more, died while detained in former concentration camps, while locked in trains en route, or after arriving in Germany exhausted, malnourished, and homeless. This book is the first in any language to tell the full story of this immense manmade catastrophe. Based mainly on archival records of the countries that carried out the forced migrations and of the international humanitarian organizations that tried but failed to prevent the disastrous results, Orderly and Humane : The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War is an authoritative and objective account. It examines an aspect of European history that few have wished to confront, exploring how the expulsions were conceived, planned, and executed and how their legacy reverberates throughout central Europe today. The book is an important study of the largest recorded episode of what we now call "ethnic cleansing," and of what to this day remains, outside Germany, a virtually unknown chapter of the Second World War."--book jacket.

Population transfers --- Forced migration --- Germans --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) --- Allemands --- Nettoyage ethnique --- History --- Forced repatriation. --- Rapatriement forcé --- Czechoslovakia --- Politics and government --- Ethnic relations --- History of Eastern Europe --- History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1940-1949 --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Compulsory resettlement --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Involuntary resettlement --- Migration, Forced --- Purification, Ethnic --- Relocation, Forced --- Resettlement, Involuntary --- Migration, Internal --- Forced repatriation --- Prisoners and prisons --- Refugees --- Chekhoslovakii︠a︡ --- Czechosłowacja --- Tsjechoslowakije --- Československá socialistická republika --- Czechoslovak Socialist Republic --- Chekhoslovat︠s︡kai︠a︡ Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Čehoslovakija --- CSRS --- ČSSR --- Tschechoslowakei --- Tsjekkoslovakia --- Tsechoslobakia --- Tshīkūslūfākiyā --- Československo --- Československa republika --- Tchécoslovaquie --- Csehszlovákia --- Ceho-Slovacia --- ČSR --- Chieh-kʻo-ssu-lo-fa-kʻo --- Chieh-kʻo-ssu-lo-fa-kʻo she hui chu i kung ho kuo --- C.S.R.S. --- Č.S.S.R. --- Č.S.R. --- Cecoslovacchia --- Checoslovaquia --- Tschechische Sozialistische Republik --- Ts'ekhoslovaḳyah --- Czech and Slovak Federal Republic --- Česká a Slovenská Federativní Republika --- Česká a Slovenská Federatívna Republika --- Cseh-Szlovákia --- ČSFR --- ChSSR --- ChSFR --- Republika československa --- Češkoslovaška --- Czecho-Slovakia --- Czech Republic --- Slovakia --- Rapatriement forcé. --- Tsechoslovakia