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From: "Rose Mary K Hughes" <>
Subject: RE: [DVHH-L] The Ethnic Component of Germany's Ostforschung: The Interwar Years and Beyond
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 16:44:30 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time)
References: <000201c5cc36$56081e00$6eb4fea9@nuts>


Thank you, Nick, for your good first-hand explanation of what happened
during those hard times. I misspoke when I said expelled--I know that many
Semlakers left their village because everything had been taken away from
them but they were not expelled.

I am always in awe of those of you who went through these bad times and
still managed to have a positive outlook on life.

Rose Mary

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From: Nick Tullius
Date: 10/08/05 14:34:49
To:
Subject: RE: [DVHH-L] The Ethnic Component of Germany's Ostforschung: The
Interwar Years and Beyond

Rose Mary,

We ethnic Germans were never formally expelled from Romania; life was just
made miserable enough so that more and more of us left (many after paying
the 8000 DM ransom).

True, those that went to Germany as refugees in 1944 and shortly thereafter
were often not welcomed by the locals. I think the main reason was that
food, living space, jobs, money ... were all in short supply, so the locals
were reluctant to share whatever was left.

The politics of the Reich caused a number of things to happen to the ethnic
Germans from Romania: they were "volunteered" into the German armed forces;
they were taken to slave labour camps in the USSR; they lost all their
property, including their houses; their villages were filled with
'colonists'; some were deported to the Baragan; they were prevented from
prospering economically, etc.

The Federal Republic of Germany, as the legal successor of the Reich, had a
moral obligation to compensate the ethnic Germans for the consequences of
the Reich's actions. Hence the offers of citizenship, compensation for
losses, and other very helpful acts.

The contributions of the Donauschwaben and other ethnic Germans to the FRG
more than justify the investment.

Best regards,
Nick


-----Original Message-----
From: Rose Mary K Hughes [mailto:]
Sent: October 8, 2005 10:13 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [DVHH-L] The Ethnic Component of Germany's Ostforschung: The
Interwar Years and Beyond

How interesting, too, Jody that those born of Germans, even after hundreds
of years away, are considered citizens. This explains why our people went
to Germany when they were expelled from Romania as well. They weren't
welcomed by the Germans themselves but they were granted citizenship. I
wondered why Germany gave compensation to our people whose homes in Romania
were expropriated. Very interesting reading for many reasons. I have now
got to go back and read it thoroughly. Thank you for bringing this to our
attention.

Rose Mary

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From: Mercydorf
Date: 10/08/05 03:36:00
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Subject: [DVHH-L] The Ethnic Component of Germany's Ostforschung: The
Interwar Years and Beyond

The Ethnic Component of Germany's Ostforschung: The Interwar Years and
Beyond by Ute Ferrier
Ethnic conflicts were thus latent in the new Yugoslav state and by the eve
of World War II ethnic differences remained unreconciled. Yugoslavia is
particularly pertinent to this study because it contained a sizable German
minority, the Danube Swabians (Donauschwaben) who were almost entirely
expelled after World War II. It is particularly instructive to examine the
role Nazi ideology played in the events leading up to expulsion.
http://history.binghamton.edu/resources/bjoh/ostforschung.htm

Jody


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