Joy Division

Fuinseog

I just picked up a dvd at Xtra vision called Joy Divsion. plot is weak and fanciful at times but the backdrop is the fate of East Germans in 1945.

Over 17 million Germans, living outside the present borders were driven from their homes or simply murdered. it is largely unknown in Britain and Ireland, being overshadowed by the holocaust, and it was taboo to speak about it in Germany until about ten years ago (it kind of implied that Germans were victims).

FiSe

I don't think that it was a taboo in Germany to talk about the end of the war expulsion of German nationals, both real or alleged, from Czechoslovakia and Poland. Well, maybe in the East Germany...

It was too bloody and there were too many people affected by it to keep it hush-hush, it wasn't the WH or SS either, but plain ordinary civilians who lived in those areas for generations, went through thick and thin together with other people and their only 'crime' was their nationality. Surprisngly, some of those people didn't even use German as their 1st language.

I think there were threads dealing with this shamefull period already somewhere...


Oh, and I believe that this all has something to do with the slow progress of Lisbon Treaty ratification in CZ as well.