The Allies also sought to protect themselves from censure for their contemporary actions. After the war the Allies engaged in many atrocities similar to those the Germans had, including the ethnic cleansing of millions of Germans across Central and Eastern Europe. These Germans were loaded onto the same cattle cars the Nazis used to transport Jews to concentration, labor, and death camps; large numbers of Germans found themselves the new occupants of those camps. Some half a million Germans died amid the ethnic cleansing. But because the Nuremberg process was constrained to providing justice
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