| The Planning The Toll |
| The World War Two Allied Bombing Campaign |
| Murder in East Prussia The Baltic Germans |
| Russia Bulgaria Romania Yugoslavia Hungary Holland France |
| Silesia |
| Death Marches and Massacres |
| Sudetenland |
| The Lost Coast |
| Re-education Occupation Starvation Rape The Women The Children |
| The German Problem: The Eradication of Ethnic Germans; Refugees |
| The Expulsions and Refugees in Several Parts |
| Soviet and Allied Plunder |
| Destroying the German "Will to Wage Future War" |
| Burning of German Books Re-education Censorship |
| Enslavement, Starvation and Murder of German POWs |
| Other Consequences of War |
| The Physical and Cultural Destruction of Germany |
| City by City Index of Destruction |
| But nothing will I say of one thing worse, I know, Than death, more grim than plague, or fire, or hunger's woe: Those pillaged souls from whom even hope of heaven is gone. From: Tears of the Fatherland by Andreas Gryphius (1616 – 1664) |