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: I put back the intention to create ethnic homogenous state, this was simply true and quite understandable in historical context. I shortened the Churchill's quote as the articles isn't about him. Discussion about legality of confiscations really doesn't belong into article. [[User:Pavel Vozenilek|Pavel Vozenilek]] 01:23, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
It may not be historically accurate to apply current moral conventions to an historical act, but the expulsions were really ethnic cleansing and not an "orderly transfer"- that is a cynically applied term, since so many otherwise innocent people were murdered in the process. If done today for any other reason, the "expulsions" would invite UN condemnation and probably military action. Your article doesn't mention that the vast majority of people "orderly transferred" were women, children, and the elderly who were forced marched on foot while being preyed upon by Soviet soldiers and marauding partisans (draft age German men were either dead or in Allied POW camps). IMO this article is a sham and should be completely rewritten if not scrapped. I think it has been hijacked by hysterical historical revisionists with a bad case of "victor complex". It sometimes gives people a warm feeling to allow that certain classes of people are removed from the protection of civilized morality. It's basically an acceptable form of racism. So now the self-proclaimed lords of this article can tell themselves and others, 60 years after the fact, that gangraping a young mother while her child watches is sometimes an acceptable crime and an "orderly transfer of populations".
== relevance of Potsdam ==
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