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From: "Mercydorf" <>
Subject: Re: [DVHH] The Banat-A Penal Colony?
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 21:24:26 -0400
References: <BAY104-F38DB68CD6949E0CABA969FDD420@phx.gbl>


Barbara,
I am doing a some research on the Saltpeter group, --and now that I know what you are talking about, I'm glad you mentioned them. I am sure Nick will find this interesting also.
Will get back with you.

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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