Population transfer is the polite term. I’m on holiday in Crete. My guidebook is a delight. After a prolonged rant about Turkish atrocities, it notes that the Turkish (actually mostly Greek Muslim) p… (View Post)

Their complaint is not so much about oppression as about the fact they aren’t the oppressors. (View Post)

How right Abba Eban was. (View Post)

I don’t blame the Russians, Poles, and Czechs, for what they did between 1945-50, given the sufferings they endured from 1939-45. But, the expulsion of ethnic Germans was an ugly business. (View Post)

I think it would be fair to say that mass executions, rape, and destruction of property, even if only inflicted on a minority, are typically used to induce the rest to leave. Also, neglecting to feed… (View Post)