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Secretary of State Cordell Hull advised Roosevelt at the end of August 1944, a middle ground could be found of opposing “the mass transfer to the Reich of Germanic people from neighboring countries” but sanctioning “the removal of individuals and groups who constitute an especially difficult problem …” The supposition that at such a late date a formula of this kind might find favor with Edvard Beneš, much less Stalin, was nonsensical,
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R.M. Douglas (Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War)