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The Savage Peace reveals the appalling violence meted out to the defeated, especially to those ethnic Germans who had lived peacefully for centuries in neighbouring countries. Using rare and unseen archive film, the documentary tells a harrowing story of vengeance against German civilians, which mirrored some of the worst cruelty of the Nazi occupiers during the years of war. The Savage Peace includes the unique testimony of eyewitnesses and victims, who recall the horrors with searing clarity, their memories undimmed 70 years after the events took place. This a story that has, until now, been untold amidst the justified celebration of an end to an unspeakable tyranny. But as the writer George Orwell said, the treatment of the defeated Germans was a terrible crime that has gone unpunished.

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    • Author: Gabar
    Most of the documentaries we watch on television are about three key things Antiquity, World War 1 and especially World War 2 all of which are told from the Anglo-American perspective which borders on the Anti-German and all of their war crimes. This long overdue documentary shows and reminds us during the Second World War the Axis powers had their fair share of suffering and the Allies did their fair share of war crimes one of which everyone knows about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

    This is its equivalent in Europe the expulsion and ethnic cleansing of Germans in the East of the continent is exposed. Contrary to popular belief in present day Poland and the Czech republic Germans were a semi-majority who wanted to be part of Germany not the Nazi regime or the new states created by the treaty of Versailles. After 1945 many Germans were expelled from these areas 12 million people commissioned by Britain, America and Russia to create the map of Europe as they wished and not how it actually was as an act of Anti-German sentiment reinforcing the 1918 treaty more brutally. This is the story of the victims of these decisions and hopefully for a more realistic view of the WW2 more documentaries will be made.

    This reminds us that victors not only write History from their perspective they make convictions and arbitrary charges on their perspectives and interests in running the world. perhaps a moral lesson from this is that the UN is built on hypocrisy and soft imperialism.

    A relevant side note to this documentary during WW1 people make accusations against the Turks for the wars against the Armenians yet we are never told of Armenian acts of terrorist atrocities or the the ethnic cleansing of the Circassians who make up 40% of Turkey's population.
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    • Author: NI_Rak
    Reading between the lines, what I got out of this movie was that the USA, UK and Russia decided to commit "the biggest genocide in history of humanity" as labeled by the creators by expelling the German-speaking population from Eastern European countries and reducing the size of Germany by a third.

    The other point I got was that there was a reprisal against the civilian German population that was actively involved in aiding Nazis in terms of committing atrocities.

    The so called documentary reached its lowest point when the creators used as a witness a former Nazi youth organization member, still enamored with the Hitler's personality.

    The only truthful part of the story was the description of the atrocities committed by the Russian soldiers, but that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
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    • Author: Dishadel
    The underlying theme throughout this travesty is the over arching sense of entitlement in these peoples voices. "Don't they know I am German?" The same voices that followed German troops into these countries and claimed it as their living space, while the troops herded the former owners off to their deaths.
  • Cast overview:
    Michael Pennington Michael Pennington - Narrator
    Christa Ronke Christa Ronke - Herself
    Marianne Becker Marianne Becker - Herself
    Meda Mládek Meda Mládek - Herself
    Stanislava Zverinova Stanislava Zverinova - Herself
    Helena Dvorácková Helena Dvorácková - Herself
    Milena Sukova Milena Sukova - Herself
    Hugo Fritsch Hugo Fritsch - Himself
    Emil Pupik Emil Pupik - Himself - great-grand nephew of J. Bruce Ismay
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