We think that the struggle against totalitarianism, Nazism and Communism, and the resistance movements, were the most important parts of 20th Century history. The expulsion, especially of Germans, was only a consequence of that.

Critical commentary by the Polish Embassy Counselor in Berlin on the exhibition about expulsion of Germans after World War II, organised by the Centre Against Expulsions (Erika Steinbach), Berlin 2006. Poland accused the Germans of stylising themselves as victims of the war.

BBC News 13 August 2006.