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From: Laurence Krupnak <>
Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] British book review about post war years
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:47:20 -0500
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Hello Herb,

If you wish to disclose it, what are the particular details of your
family (the ethnicity)?

What happened to your family in 1946?

In your opinion, if the ethnic Germans remained in Czechoslovakia
what would have been their relationship with the local population and
the government?

______

Lavrentiy Krupniak




Schwarz family wrote:
>
> In spite of the "AMEN", I would like to add a bit more to the recent
> correspondence. Not everything is all black and white. In this area are many
> shades of GREY material which have not been discussed. I actually lived
> through this whole era, from the 1930's to 1946 in the Sudetenland. Not
> mentioned in this discussion, is that a large number of Sudeten germans were
> members of the Social Democratic Party , and the Komunist Party. Members of
> this group were Antinazis and were actually persecuted by the Nazis and
> placed into Concentration Camps. A leading group of the Social Democratic
> Party escaped and were very active in Britain. The Czech Government in Exile
> in Britain would not discuss matters with the Exiled Sudeten German
> Members." ALL" Germans, including the antinazi groups were expelled
> following WW 2. The influencing factor governing the expulsion , was the
> 1930 Census . Even Holocaust victims had their property confiscated, if they
> had declaired themselves Germans in the 1930 Census . Herb Schwarz

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