"too overwhelming..." for what? Not a complete sentence as it stands. Are you using 'Deutsche Reich' to mean the eastern territory? It's unclear.
Did WW II begin Sep 1 ,1939 ? Did it begin at Versailles ?
Read the notes on that in article WW II . You say , did it begin with the invasion of the Sudetenland ?
I ask, what about the "Declaration of War against Germany by Judica of the World unite... " published March 4, 1933 in the Daily Express :
I welcome it if that someone explains this.
To Michael Tinkler ,
when you use the search engine www.webtop.com and type in :judea declares war on germany , daily express, you will find an article by the shofar archives on this. daily express was ( and still is) apparently a newspaper in London. There are other search engines, such as alta vista and other sites, which show the newspaper article
I only found this recently and am astonished at the nearly 70 years of silence surrounding it . You are now telling me this 1933 act has been terrorism .
Deutsche Reich is the official name for Germany as of 1871. People that lived within the Deutsche Reich were/are citizen of the Deutsche Reich or "Reichs-Deutsche". Germans who lived outside the boundaries of the "Deutsche Reich" are "Volksdeutsche" or ethnic Germans .
Also, I am agreeing with Michael Tinkler that the German phrases should be cleaned up and English used as the main language in the English-language Wikipedia.
Finally, I want to again mention that this article needs to be written in a less biased form. At present, it appears to be a backhanded apologia for Germany. At the least, it seems to equate the circumstances of the Germans in Eastern territories forcibly taken by their governments in previous centuries and forcibly settled by them with those of other "ethnically cleansed" populations. To this point, although I have heard of the expulsion of the Volksdeutsch from East-Central and Eastern Europe, I have never heard that there was any type of planned genocide carried out against them. J Hofmann Kemp
To Michael Tinklerand J Hofmann Kemp
Thank you for reading the article and for your input .
I added an article on refugees , to J H Kemp's attention . There were 9 million Volksdeutsche
plus 9 million Reichsdeutsche who were expelled.Volksdeutsche are people , who were not citizens of the Deutsche Reich-Germany , but were in earlier years Germans of the Holy Roman Empire.
Perhaps if this so called expulsion would not have been so minnimized ,as you demonstrate, all these millions and millions of refugees throughout all the world would not have to be.
H. Jonat