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What I was a little bit curious about, if anyone knows… is to what extend was Haviv accurate about the “many ethnic cleansings and genocides” that European nations carried out post-WW2.

When I heard that, I thought back to my studies in school and university and never heard any in-depth or even surface level discussions on that sort of thing. When I did a little quick research, what I see is mention of deaths happening as a result of displacement of certain ethnic groups in Germany and the Eastern Euro countries, with the biggest counts happening amongst Germans… but this seems to be highly contentious as to whether it actually constitutes ethnic cleansing (and certainly not genocide).

I have no sway either way in what I think, so I’m just curious anyone’s knowledge on this, but to me Haviv seemed quite lacking in perspectives outside his own from Israel so maybe that’s where he’s lacking in Euro studies generally(?).

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