Were there any deaths from starvation among Germans after WW2 before economic recovery? - Quora

Interesting article, but that was not the experience of my family. I was born in West Germany. My family is from there and my grandfather and other relatives were drafted into the German military during WWII. After the war, my mother and other relatives lived in the British occupied zone (Northern Germany). They did not have the experience described in the article. In fact, when I was growing up in the 60’s in Germany all the people I know had only positive things to say about the Americans and British and were thankful of the rebuilding efforts in the country after the war.

East Germany or the Russian zone was another story. I had an uncle who escaped from East Germany as a 16 year old. He would tell me stories, he had a completely different post WWII experience than those who grew up in the West.

This article is deliberately misleading suggesting that the Allies were promoting the death of eastern German nationals. Since only one Ally had any control over eastern Germany/Poland. The use of the word allies, is completely wrong. The Russians treated them atrociously, that is a fact, They forced the Germans to leave their own country and resettle into modern day Germany, Much of today's Poland has always been German/Prussian, Kaliningrad which is a Russian Enclave between Poland and Lithuania used to be Koenesburg. The Ruskies just kicked everyone out. I spent several months in Poland and had several dozens of Poles cross the road just to thank me (in uniform) and to tell me how terrible the Russians were. One guy in particular comes to mind, he grew up on a diary farm but was not allowed to drink milk from his own farm, the commissar beat him up twice when he was caught.

In fact the German POW's held by Russia were not all released until 2014. The Russians kept hundreds of thousands of POWs in the work camps until 1956. Look at a map of Germany before WW2 and a map after WW2 and you'll see who treated the German people poorly.

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