Sudeten German Inferno. A chapter in its own right is the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from their homeland. Theirs was ancestral German land which had been inhabited by their German forebears for at least 2,000 years 1 and of which their centuries of hard work and diligence had wrought a paradise. The children are undernourished and anemic. They have no clothes.
Entire families live in cramped holes where the floor is the only place to sleep.
In winter there is no coal with which to heat. They have neither stockings nor shoes, nor shirts. They live on black coffee for breakfast, soup for lunch, and there is no supper. They are slowly but surely dying out. In the Adlergebirge mountains the people supplement their bread with tree bark, while the government orders tons of grain dumped into the Moldau river to keep the prices from dropping.