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Mayo 15, 2007
El epílogo de la guerra
La Segunda Guerra Mundial no acabó en mayo de 1945. Según el libro "After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift", de Giles MacDonogh:
His best estimate is that some three million Germans died unnecessarily after the official end of hostilities. A million soldiers vanished before they could creep back to the holes that had been their homes. The majority of them died in Soviet captivity (of the 90,000 who surrendered at Stalingrad, only 5,000 eventually came home) but, shamingly, many thousands perished as prisoners of the Anglo-Americans. Herded into cages along the Rhine, with no shelter and very little food, they dropped like flies. Others, more fortunate, toiled as slave labour in a score of Allied countries, often for years. Incredibly, some Germans were still being held in Russia as late as 1979.The two million German civilians who died were largely the old, women and children: victims of disease, cold, hunger, suicide - and mass murder.
Posted by Iñigo at Mayo 15, 2007 12:42 AM
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¿En 1979?
Impresionante.
Posted by: Marlango at Mayo 15, 2007 12:19 PM
Pero aún así,... la Segunda Guerra Mundial terminó en Europa en Junio de 1945. ¿No?
Estas bajas son las consecuencias desastrosas de una posguerra en un continente devastado. Enfermedades como el cólera o extensas hambrunas (por eso crearon la Política Agraria Común, por el recuerdo terrible de esas hambrunas) dejarían esa estela, pero no ejércitos enfrentados.
Posted by: Alex Guerrero at Mayo 15, 2007 01:19 PM