POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Partition Of India, Mahatma Gandhi, United Nations Partition Plan For Palestine
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Turkey expels 1. 5 million greeks to greece in exchange for 500,000 muslims. Stalin forcibly expelled/deported over 2 million people. Stalin did so, surprisingly, during peace and not war. 1939: hitler expels 100,000 from alsace, 900,000 poles. East european jews were typically murdered where they lived. West european jews were taken to concentration camps more frequently. Zionist tension between those who argued for peaceful achievement of a jewish state and those who believed in a violent one (tension breaks in 43") Un partition plan to create both a jewish as well as arab state in palestine (in line with the current population clusters) April 48": zionists implement violent expansionist policy. Evidence suggests that mass palestinian expulsion was a contingent of war. Potsdam (july-august 1945): agreed to the orderly and humane transfer of germans. Three features of train transport: many dead bodies, many injured, and very few able bodied men. Negotiations of british withdrawal in atmosphere of religious tension.
