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Each army, whether Axis or Allied, bears its own responsibility for the outrages committed by its soldiers during the war. This applies to the crimes of the Soviet army in eastern Germany as well as the destruction of Dresden by the Anglo-American bomber formations. The responsibility for the decision to uproot and resettle millions of human beings, to evict them from their homes and spoliate them—and this as a quasi-peacetime measure—is also a war crime for which individuals bear responsibility, even if many would still hesitate to put the correct label on the crime and its perpetrators.
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NOTES
United States, Executive Agreement Series 236, p. 4; Department of State Bulletin, V, p. 125; Documents of American Foreign Relations, IV, p. 209. Text also in Louise Holborn, War and Peace Aims of the United Nations, 1943, p. 2.
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de Zayas, AM. (1993). Allied Decisions on Resettlement. In: The German Expellees: Victims in War and Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22836-2_4
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