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| | Commentary Magazine - Lies the Germans Tell Themselves (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | ...Erika Steinbach, the League’s lea d er, is herself a study in evasion.A0Though she is skilled at telling heartrending tales about how the children of expellees, just like the children of Holocaust survivors, continue to experience their parents’ pain, some of the tales she recounts, including her own, are highly dubious... |
 | | ...To Erika Steinbach, the League’s leader and an influential member of the Christian Democratic Union, what was needed to end the reticence was obvious: a memorial “historically and physically close” to Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial and meant to commemorate the suffering endured by those who had been forced to leave territories lost by the German Reich... |
 | | ...Though Steinbach does indeed come from the east, and was born in Poland in 1943, just as she claims, her family arrived in Nazi-occupied Poland from western Germany after the area had been annexed by the Nazis in 1939, and her father was a German soldier... |
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