Picking at an old sore

Berlin Sixty years on, the Germans seem determined to reopen the argument over what happened when millions of them were driven out of Central Europe in 1945. Perhaps the Germans feel that they have listened enough since the war to tales about how horrible they were to everyone else and now they want to turn the tables. At any rate, following what seemed like a minor row between the Czech prime minister on an electioneering roll and the Austrian and German government, the Germans are now determined - with their usual grim thoroughness – to take the argument one step further and open a ,,Centre for Expulsion´´, whose aim would be to study the various bouts of ethnic cleansing which have afflicted Europe and the world in general, but especially the expulsion of some 15 million Germans after the war.