Why is the 1944-1950 German democide/genocide/forced migration ignored?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

In Germany far from being ignored it has been talked about so much over the years - and as Old Europe rightly points out in a certain tone of voice - that many people are sick of hearing about it. It's barely even known about elsewhere of course, but that's for fairly obvious reasons (the classic 'Germans as Victims' problem). Neither situation is particularly positive. The good thing about time passing is that we can maybe now start to discuss events like this if not with objectivity but with a degree of perspective (for want of a better word; tragic perspective would perhaps be more accurate) that would once have been completely impossible.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Significant part of these territories also had strong historical-demographic links to Poland all that time.

All those mixed ethnicity German-speaking families in Upper Silesia, sure (not that they were treated particularly well in the new state, but then the Communist regime in Poland was addicted to crass racism against its remaining minorities, as you know), but that's a difficult argument to make for Breslau and so on. But those were extreme and dreadful times in which a lot of people did awful things to each other. Lots of new families in the new Wrocław were themselves victims of ethnic cleansing of course, and there's no harm at all in finding it very sad that the 20th century produced places like that; ethnically cleansed cities populated in part by families who were ethnically cleansed from elsewhere.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

In the beginning, they even had their own party, the BHE (Bund der Heimatvertriebenen und Entrechteten/Association of deported and disenfrachised people), which was temporarily part of Chancellor Adenauer's coalition and administration.

They were particularly strong in Schleswig-Holstein; took over a fifth of the vote in the 1950 state election.