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From notes@igc.apc.org Sun Aug 6 15:38:58 1995 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (192.82.108.1) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (MailShare 1.0b10); Sun, 6 Aug 1995 15:38:58 -0500 Received: (from notes) by cdp.igc.apc.org (8.6.12/Revision: 1.203 ) id KAA12093 for "conf-zamir.chat"; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 10:45:56 -0700 Date: 06 Aug 1995 10:13:19 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat"From: CNAEF@CENTER.COLGATE.EDU Subject: Re: A Spade Is a Spade To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <01HTR538T2EQA4REIM@center.colgate.edu> In-Reply-To: X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 14 From: CHARLES NAEF I haven't seen the SZ editorial, but the Germans certainly know the difference between genocide and ethnic cleansing or campaigns of expulsion. After the Second World War nearly one-fourth of West Germany's population consisted of refugees and expellees. Most had been expelled from the Sudetenland and territories to the east of the Oder-Neisse line. For decades expellee organizations agitated for the "liberation" of their homelands, aggravating the cold war confrontation during the Adenauer-Dulles era. But the vast majority of their constituents were successfully integrated into West German society, and many of them came to support the policy of renunciation of territory and reconciliation of Willy Brandt. There might be a lesson in this for the people of the former Yugoslavia. Charles Naef