While everyone is aware of what happened to Jewish people, and every other group that was not up to Nazi standards, many are unaware of what happened to the Germans after World War II. Poland in the post war era contained a large German population, some who had lived there for ages and some who had come to move into appropriated housing. Around 200,000 Germans died in Soviet concentration camps. Germans were subjected to the slave labor they had implemented themselves. Certainly, those German who were under the watchful eye of their former Jewish targets really had a rough go of it. Many were subjected to the same beatings and starvation rations that the Jewish populations had faced themselves. Humanity should not be subjective, yet it very often is.

I am a history major that specialized in World War II, and none of this information was communicated to me in any class that I personally took. When I found this book and read the title, I was very curious about this. I read this book, and was terribly disappointed in the author's attitude. I actually learned a lot more about this situation from the Smithsonian website than I did this book, which annoyed me for having wasted the money. What happened to people under the hands of the Nazis is abhorrent. What happened to the German people in retribution is also abhorrent. Neither group is innocent of committing crimes against humanity. Neither group should be applauded for their behavior, no matter how understandable one may find revenge. Children, especially, on any side of war should never be starved, beaten, tortured, or anything else. The author takes a very celebratory tone, and while I do understand feeling that way for the genocide that was inflicted, it is really disgusting to be pleased with treating people this way period.