TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT

Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right

KENYATTA BERRYHILL

According to the book Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe by Norman M. Naimark, The Expulsions of Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia were post World War II actions. “Tensions rose between the Polish and Czechoslovakia governments because of the Taschen conflict ……. both governments remained in perfect agreement about the need to expel the Germans and to pin down the Allies on terminal dates.” These republics had differences, but the Germans were their “Jews” that needed to go. I chose to focus on these chapters and give a summary about what Norman M. Naimark was focusing on.
  In this book, particularly these chapters it exhibits the same behavior/ actions. Before the Expulsion of the Germans, the Germans participated in the holocaust which was a legendary genocide. The Germans did whatever they wanted to so they could maintain the pure German race. I stated Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right because the Expulsion is the same as the holocaust. The leaders of Poland and Czechoslvakia were very aware of what they were doing according to their statement, “We won’t disturb you. Throw them out. Now they will learn themselves what it mean to rule over someone else.”
The Transfer is where all the murders, sexual activity etc. was happening. On July 31, 1945 fires started by a series of explosions; it wounded many and killed twenty-eight people. Women and children were targeted because they were the weakest of the German race. According to the text, “In some regions….. the Soviet Soldiers did a great deal of damage.” The Soviet soldiers were abusing their power and their actions went from orders to complete revenge. The Soviet soldiers were assaulting, raping, and murdering these women and children.

The Polish were exploited, brutalized, humiliated, and subjected to mass murder, puts their lust for revenge and their fear some attacks on the Germans in a more understandable context, according to the text. The Expulsion was turning into a successful plan, many hundreds of thousands of Germans fled before the advancing Soviet armies to return to their homes. The Germans were finally out of the western territories. The Polish and German cannot live together in one country; just as the Czechoslovakia expelling the Germans was a revolutionary act.
Overall every action made by each Race was an involuntary act and selfish. The need of genocides was unnecessary due to selfishness of territory. The holocaust was brutal, tragic and down right insane, but does the all the Germans deserve this treatment. The holocaust was done by Nazis German Soldiers, not ALL Germans period. The Polish, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Soldiers attacked the Germans because they felt they deserved it. Again, not all Germans acted in the holocaust so why these women and children were beat, molested and stripped of their values. What good came out of both tragic events; Satisfaction but deaths of millions. Do you think the Germans deserved this? I will forever be upset about the holocaust, but two wrongs don’t make a right so the expulsion was not necessary.

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