Here’s 500 years of history in about four minutes. Technology is so cool. Although it’s fun to watch the shaded areas, one tends to forget that these represent people. Thanks to Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt, almost 17 million people were dispossessed when the map of Europe was redrawn at the Potsdam conference. Not only Germans, [...]]]>

Here’s 500 years of history in about four minutes. Technology is so cool. Although it’s fun to watch the shaded areas, one tends to forget that these represent people. Thanks to Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt, almost 17 million people were dispossessed when the map of Europe was redrawn at the Potsdam conference. Not only Germans, but Silesians, Pomeranians, Poles, Lithuanians . . .

The way history is rewritten is always fascinating. Here’s a contemporary cartoon of Russia ‘stealing Kaliningrad (Konigsberg) from Poland‘. No such thing of course, the carve up of Prussia between the ‘Great Powers’ happened simultaneously.