Editing A Terrible Revenge (section)

==Criticism==
One reviewer, [[Rainer Ohliger]] of [[Humboldt University]], argues that de Zayas over-emphasizes the role of the Bund der Vertriebenen (non-governmental association representing the expellees) and its property and territorial claims. It has been noted that no West–East migration occurred when this possibility arose after the unification of the German states, and that practically no Germans have returned to the East after the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania entered the European Union.<ref name="Ohliger">[http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/id=378&count=1548&recno=13&type=rezbuecher&sort=datum&order=up&geschichte=98 Review by Rainer Ohliger.] ''H-Soz-u-Kult''. {{in lang|de}} On the theme of de Zayas' [[Historical revisionism (negationism)|revisionism]], see Rainer Ohliger's February 1997 HABSBURG review of Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, ''A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944–1950'' (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).</ref>

The book has also been criticized for its victim perspective, normally unsuitable for scholarly works, unfavourably comparing it with a more recent book of [[Detlef Brandes]]<!-- who compares him - it can't be Brandes himself, who's stating that-->.<ref name="Brandes">{{cite book | last = Brandes | first = Detlef | title = "Der Weg zur Vertreibung 1938–1945: Pläne und Entscheidungen zum "Transfer" der Deutschen aus der Tschechoslowakei und aus Polen" | year = 2001 | isbn = 3-486-56520-6 }}</ref> The 2006 revised and enlarged edition of "Terrible Revenge" with Palgrave/Macmillan takes some of these considerations into account. In the introduction the author notes that a "Terrible Revenge" is a popularized version of his longer monograph "Nemesis at Potsdam" (1–3 editions Routledge, 6th edition Picton Press, Rockland, Maine 2003). See also review of the Future of Freedom Foundation.<ref>[http://www.fff.org/freedom/0795f.asp FFF.org] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223446/http://www.fff.org/freedom/0795f.asp |date=26 September 2007 }}</ref>

Other reviews have criticized both de Zayas and Brandes reversely. According to [[Eagle Glassheim]] on the [[H-Net]] website, Brandes does not provide any moral conclusion deriving from violence against civilians due to their ethnic heritage.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.cgi?path=10541005228827 |title=A review by Eagle Glassheim referring to Detlef Brandes and Alfred De Zayas |access-date=9 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707065400/http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.cgi?path=10541005228827 |archive-date=7 July 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Genocide historians [[Donald Bloxham]] and Tony Kushner describe the book as "tendentious".<ref name="Bloxham 2005 p. ">{{cite book | last=Bloxham | first=Donald | title=The Holocaust : critical historical approaches | publisher=Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. by Palgrave | publication-place=Manchester, UK New York, N.Y. New York, N.Y | year=2005 | isbn=0-7190-3779-4 | oclc=59811177 | page=111}}</ref>