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From: "Mary Ann Conklin" <>
Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] British book review about post war years
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:40:48 -0600
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I don't know what would have happened. I've been able to trace that branch back to 1769 (plus two more ancestors names, but no dates) but, I don't know if there was a strong family network on either the Czech or German side of the family. My parents came to the US in 1931, so the only first hand account of the story came from my aunt. In fact, after she wrote the letter cited, she said she would not speak of any of it again.

Family members that survived are now all in the Munich area. I guess a benefit of the expulsion was that they escaped living in Communist Czechoslovakia.

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From: "Laurence Krupnak" <>
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Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] British book review about post war years


> Mary Ann Conklin wrote:
> >
> > For a first hand account of my aunt's experience of being expelled, go to the following site.
> > http://conklinhouse.com/genealogy/maternal/heliletter.html
> >
> > As my son states in the introduction, my mother's ( and aunt's) parents were ethnic German and Czech. After all these years, this still appears tol be a raw nerve laden with emotion among us descendants of what was, during my parents lifetime, The Austro Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia and the Czech republic. Real understanding/comprehension of any of this is complex, certainly not simple.
> >
> > PEACE to all.
>
>
> *******
>
> Hello Mary Ann,
>
> It is written: " The expulsion was a cowardly act since most of the
> German men were still POW's or dead. What was left to expulse were the
> 14 year old kids their mothers and grandmothers and the old men. There
> was no opposition."
>
>
> Question: if the (German) kids, mothers, grandmothers, and old men were
> allowed to stay in Czechoslavakia, what do you think their relationship
> would be with the local population and government?
>
>
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> Lavrentiy Krupniak
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