Chances are pretty good that you’ve never seen the picture above, or learned about the people in it. It’s a photograph of Germans in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in 1946. They are fleeing from horrendous anti-German violence that was occurring after World War II had ended. If you overlook the blonde children, you might think that it shows Jews being transported to concentration camps, but it’s a striking bit of evidence that the German people also suffered because of the war.
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They Suffered Also: Germans in the Aftermath…
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Chances are pretty good that you’ve never seen the picture above, or learned about the people in it. It’s a photograph of Germans in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in 1946. They are fleeing from horrendous anti-German violence that was occurring after World War II had ended. If you overlook the blonde children, you might think that it shows Jews being transported to concentration camps, but it’s a striking bit of evidence that the German people also suffered because of the war.