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On the expulsion of Germans after World War II he said: " So far as the conscience of humanity should ever again become sensitive, will this expulsion be an undying disgrace for all those who remember it, who caused it or who put up with it.

The Germans have been driven out, but not simply with an imperfection of excessive consideration, but with the highest imaginable degree of brutality.

" His book, Our Threatened Values, ( London, 1946 ) Gollancz described the conditions Sudeten German prisoners faced in a Czech concentration camp: " They live crammed together in shacks without consideration for gender and age ...

They ranged in age from 4 to 80.

Everyone looked emaciated ... the most shocking sights were the babies ... nearby stood another mother with a shrivelled bundle of skin and bones in her arms ... Two old women lay as if dead on two cots.

Only upon closer inspection, did one discover that they were still lightly breathing.

They were, like those babies, nearly dead from hunger ..." When Field Marshal Montgomery wanted to allot each German citizen a guaranteed diet of only 1, 000 calories a day and justified this by referring to the fact that the prisoners of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had received only 800, Gollancz wrote about starvation in Germany, pointing out that many prisoners never even received 1, 000 calories.

" There is really only one method of re-educating people ," explained Gollancz, " namely the example that one lives oneself.