@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt1nppqv.7, ISBN = {9780300166606}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1nppqv.7}, abstract = {In one respect it is misleading to speak of “the postwar expulsions.” From the very beginning of the Second World War, the European totalitarian powers engaged in ethnic cleansing on a scale never before seen in history. For Adolf Hitler, a continent from which “undesirable” peoples—Jews, Slavs, Roma, and others—had been displaced to make room for incoming German colonists lay at the very heart of his nightmarish racial vision. Even the Holocaust, when it had finally been decided upon, was but a means to this larger end. But his fellow dictator Josef Stalin also had grand ambitions to}, bookauthor = {R.M. Douglas}, booktitle = {Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War}, pages = {39--64}, publisher = {Yale University Press}, title = {The Volksdeutsche in Wartime}, year = {2012} }