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From: "Mercydorf" <>
Subject: Re: [DVHH] The Banat-A Penal Colony?
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:02:44 -0400
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Hi Barbara,
Nick is out of town this week, but maybe when he returns he'll respond to your question. OR maybe someone else on the list knows about the Saltpeterers. I've never heard of "Saltpeterers" myself, (are you referring to a surname?) and nothing related on the DVHH Neubeschenowa site either: http://www.dvhh.org/neubeschenowa/
If you have information about this group, please share it with the list, sounds interesting. I found a reference, see below:

The Saltpetriers or Saltpeterers were a secret society based in Hauenstein, the Duchy of Baden, Germany. They were started to oppose the tyrannical rule of the Abbot of St. Blasius around the year 1750. By the end of the decade they were suppressed, reforming at the beginning of the 19th century to oppose school and church reforms. By 1840 the Saltpetriers had disbanded.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HeartofaDog/Sandbox

Jody


----- Original Message -----
From: Barbara wilson
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Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [DVHH] The Banat-A Penal Colony?


Where does that leave the descendants of the Saltpeterers that were exiled
to Neubeschenowa?
Is there a place to give the history of the Saltpeterers on the Neub site?
Barb


>From: "Mercydorf" <>
>To: "Nick Tullius" <>,
><>
>Subject: Re: [DVHH] The Banat-A Penal Colony?
>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:40:26 -0400
>
>Dr. Peter Wassertheurer should have provided his resources for such
>allegations. I appreciate Dama presenting this rebuttal to Wassertheurer's
>account and for also providing his resources. Too often so-called
>historical accounts are written and published and slanted according to the
>author's "view-point" and unknowledgeable researchers may believe it to be
>true without question. I believe it's the obligation to those who are more
>knowledgeable of the truth to denounce it as Dama did here:
>http://www.dvhh.org/banat/history/dama-banat_penal_colony.htm
>
>Thank you Nick for the translation and extend our thanks to Hans Dama for
>once again sharing with the DVHH.
>
>Best Regards,
>Jody McKim
>www.dvhh.org/mercydorf
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nick Tullius
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:42 PM
> Subject: [DVHH] The Banat-A Penal Colony?
>
>
> In a German-language presentation entitled "Short History of the
> old-Austrian German ethnic groups in Southeast Europe", author Dr. Peter
> Wassertheurer, repeated an old assertion that Maria Theresia transformed
> the Banat into a "Penal Colony".
>
> To prove that this assertion lacks any substance, Dr. Hans
> Dama consulted many primary sources - documents found in the various
> archives in Vienna - and wrote a definitive rebuttal of that myth.
>
> For those interested in the history of the Danube-Swabian settlers in
> the Banat, and English version of the Dama article can be found at
> http://www.dvhh.org/banat/history/dama-banat_penal_colony.htm
>
> Happy reading,
> Nick Tullius
> www.dvhh.org./alexanderhausen
>
>
>
>
>
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