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2010-02-17 15:12:10 |
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können Sie mir bitte Ihre e-Post-Anschrift zusenden!
Ich habe eine Öffentliche PETITION zum 27.Januar 2010 verfaßt und möchte Sie Ihnen per e-Post zu kommen lassen!
Vielen Dank & Herzliche Grüße
Bernd Krain |
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James C. Simeon |
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2010-01-20 08:52:00 |
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Dear Prof. de Zayas,
I have sent an invitation to you through the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations to be a panellist at our international conference on "Supervising the 1951 Convention" that will be held at York University on May 17th to 20th, 2010.
I hope that you receive our invitation and will be able to consider it.
With Many Thanks and Very Best Wishes,
Dr. James C. Simeon, Visiting Research Fellow
Refugee Studies Centre
Oxford Department of International Development
University of Oxford
3 Mansfield Road
Oxford, United Kingdom
OX1 3TB
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2010-01-20 03:24:00 |
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Thank you for your authoritative study on the Genocide of the Armenians in Turkey.
Pauline
www.thejapanroom.org.uk
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2010-01-17 11:23:39 |
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Bitte grüßt mir die Teilnehmer am 22. Januar 2010.
Ich bedaure dass ich nicht teil nehmen kann.
Ich wuensche ein paar schoene lustige Stunden!
Christian |
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Jack Labusch |
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2010-01-08 10:58:08 |
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Critics of Prof. de Zayas, Prof. Neary, James Bacque, and Patrick Buchanan (to name just a few WWII contrarians) are in the main honest and decent men and women. Yet, they must have the insight to recognize their views float on a sea of human inertia.
Picture the harried professor of modern European history under pressure to get published; the journalist seeing opportunity in a swastika-covered paperback; the ordinary Joe who wants the good memory of Grandpa at Normandy undisturbed. None of them has a vocational or emotional interest in upsetting the historical apple cart with “difficult” questions? So why ask “difficult” questions about WWII?
Imagine a successful Greater German Reich extending deep into what had once been European Russia. In the West is a rump France. England and Nazi Germany have concluded peace under uneasily accepted terms, and America is formally neutral.
Winston Churchill is an obscure, alcoholic ranter. Franklin Roosevelt maneuvers out of the Depression by deftly refashioning America as the “anti-Bolshevik arsenal of the Reich”, a catchphrase he sometimes uses privately among approving industrialists and financiers.
Hostilities cease in late 1942. Millions of Poles, Russians, and others are forced eastward for “resettlement” beyond the Ribbentrop Line that separates a remnant Soviet Union from the Greater German Reich. Their evacuation is on short notice, and they’re permitted few possessions. Huge numbers of Slavs die, although their deaths are hardly reported, so great is the relief of the West and Slavic nationalists that Bolshevism appears to have been crushed.
Germans, Italians, Croats, and others are encouraged to settle in the East. They do, with a vengeance, systematically destroying the architecture and history of the Slavic peoples.
Auschwitz is a little-known stop on cheery bus tours of “liberated” Poland. The words “Jew” and “Bolshevik” are conflated in the popular (and very controlled) German press. Nobody even thinks to ask what happened to the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. Popular opinion appears to have accepted that all Jews were Bolsheviks, and Bolsheviks were the reviled enemy of Nazi Germany and the West. Their disappearance from Nazi-controlled Europe becomes “legitimized”, and is attributed to combat fatalities, overall hardship, and deportation.
Popular and academic Western histories regard the conquest of Bolshevik Western Russia as an overall good thing, despite the tepid criticism sometimes offered of the Nazi governments in Warsaw, Minsk, and Kiev. “Although we had our differences with Germany’s government, justice was served by the defeat of the murderous Stalin”, says one American historian blandly in the 1990s.
German academics and popular historians go on about the infamy of Versailles as having been erased, the standard prism through which the stupendous German victory is perceived. A tiny number of German contrarians raise “difficult” questions. What, they ask, do German armored columns slurping fuel in Baku have to do with liberating Oma and Opa from a Polish government imposed on them by outsiders. They are ignored, mocked, put under surveillance, deported, fired from newspaper jobs, and denied academic posts. A few are arrested. Some disappear.
Nazi Germany enjoys large ideologically sympathetic constituencies in America and the UK. Bills underpinned by racial-nationalist views are routinely introduced in the Congress. America’s Republicans have a “fireplace and family” faction; Democrats a “workers’ front”.
A few American and British critics regard the Nazi victory as just another European power and property grab. Wags mock what they call the billion acre Reich, skewering the “spiritualist” pretensions of Nazi theoreticians, but they’re in the minority.
They are among the handful of academics and freethinkers who are unconvinced that the establishment of a German government in the former Western Russia had much to do with rectifying the burdens of the Versailles Treaty, or offering relief to the peoples of Western Russia from Bolshevik tyranny. Their views are routinely dismissed and disparaged as vexatious.
What more, so goes most opinion, is there to ask about a world made free of the Bolshevik tyranny?
Had Nazi Germany established a successful regime by conquest in Slavic Europe, would anyone think it a good idea to NOT raise questions about the facts and meaning of Germany’s victory?
(Harvard professor Niall Ferguson explores historical counterfactuals in some of his work. C. M. Kornbluth’s “Two Dooms”, Phillip K. Dick’s Man in the High Castle, Robert Harris’s Fatherland offer fictional, and quite plausible, sketches of how a German victory in WWII might look. Civilian and military analysts routinely explore the world as it might be under their preferred policy option, as in, for example, today’s Iraq and Afghanistan.)
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Jack Labusch |
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2010-01-07 10:07:24 |
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| Elaine, you almost can't blame people for their willful blindness (I guess you could call it that). Zbigniew Brzezinski's characterization of WWI and WWII as "wars of annihilation" seems to me pretty much on the mark. Many folks seem to have accepted instead "the Good War" as the template through which they view WWII, so the facts that don't fit the template are simply discarded. I grew up among American combat soldiers who'd served in the European War. I'm pretty confident they would all have said, "I did my job"; I'm also pretty confident they would have scoffed at the "Good War" theory. |
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Elaine C. Tillinger |
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2010-01-03 01:02:47 |
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| As a fan of your work, I am so pleased that you participated in the documentary, The Forgotten Genocide; I have long been fan of your work. I am a Donauschwaben; I grew up in St. Louis as a first generation of the Donauschwaben refugees from Yugoslavia and Tito's genocide (many of my friends are just like me). Luckily, my parents insisted we speak Donauschabisch (Donauschwowisch) in the house, complete with all of the traditional, cultural baggage that came with my family to this country. This film will finally set the record straight. I've been researching the ethnic Germans from Southeastern Europe of several years; I'm a professor of American Studies at Lindenwood University. It is thrilling to see Dr. Sunic's envolvment as well. All of this is a dream-come-true. Every semester for the past nine years, I take one day in each of my classes and tell them about the expulsion and ethnic cleansing of the ethnic Germans from southeastern Europe. Of course, they have never heard of this event in history. In fact, one of my students told his history professor about my lecture and she told him it never happened. I educated them, politely and colleagially by asking them if they could give me some advice.....about my research, plus I attached the book Expulsion of the Ethnic Germans, 1944-48;m now they know it was true. Thank-you |
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Jack Labusch |
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2009-12-11 12:41:07 |
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I recently read Prof. Brigitte Neary's "Voices of Loss and Courage", collected interviews with German women who'd been expelled from their homes with their families in Eastern Germany and other parts of Central Europe at the end of WWII.
I put together a sort of mock book blurb to sum up my thoughts:
“The perpetrators were Russians, Poles, Serbs, Romanians, Czechs, and, from the air, Americans and Englishmen: soldiers, partisans, and plain criminals. The crimes were mass murder, mass rape, confinement, forced labor, and expulsion. The victims were German civilians of Central Europe , women, old men, and children. Prof. Brigitte Neary assembles their stories in 'Voices of Loss and Courage'.
'Voices' is an important contribution to a field pioneered by Alfred de Zayas. If you find yourself increasingly uncomfortable with the ‘good war’ theory of WWII, then 'Voices' ought to be on your must-read list.”
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josef heuser |
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2009-12-10 22:34:29 |
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| Ich war 4 jare alt.Die Kinderlandverschickung hat mich von Koeln nach Gross Jauth gebracht.Meine Pflege Eltern waren Herr und Frau Nickels Paul Nickels hatte eine Schmide und Er war sehr bekannt und beliebt.Wie ist es dass ich nicht erfahren kann was deren Schicksal war und ob deren Tochter vielleicht noch am leben ist.Wer kann mir da helfen? vielen dank.es verbleibt Josef Heuser !!! e mail josefheuser@yahoo.com |
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josef heuser |
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2009-12-10 22:33:33 |
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| Ich war 4 jare alt.Die Kinderlandverschickung hat mich von Koeln nach Gross Jauth gebracht.Meine Pflege Eltern waren Herr und Frau Nickels Paul Nickels hatte eine Schmide und Er war sehr bekannt und beliebt.Wie ist es dass ich nicht erfahren kann was deren Schicksal war und ob deren Tochter vielleicht noch am leben ist.Wer kann mir da helfen? vielen dank.es verbleibt Josef Heuser !!! |
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2009-12-08 16:00:01 |
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I just read "Anglo-American Responsibility for the Expulsion of the Germans, 1944-48" and noticed an error. You say the Labour MP giving the speech was "John Rhys-Davies" but in actuality the MP was "Rhys John Davies." John Rhys-Davies is an English actor whereas Rhys John Davies gave the speech. See:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Xi4VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c_UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5999%2C3206540
Now, all these people in various books, such as Patrick Buchanan, have attributed "John Rhys-Davies" as being involved in criticizing Britain's commitment to the Atlantic Charter, which is completely incorrect. |
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BAAPPG |
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2009-11-29 05:03:52 |
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topalian@tesco.net |
Dear Dr de Zayas
If you are in London on 14 December, I can email you an invitation to a presentation by Geoffrey Robertson QC of his legal opinion concerning the Armenian Genocide.
This is organised by the British Armenian All Party Parliamentary Group, and will be of great interest to you.
We hope that you received a printed copy of the opinion in the post.
Armenag Topalian
on behalf of BAAPPG & ALIG
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sieglinde Stieda |
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2009-11-27 01:18:54 |
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sieglinde9@gmail.com |
PS
Next time that you are in Tuebingen, stop in Dannheim. My direct ancestor, Christianus Stieda was responsible for building the church in Dannheim in the 18th century. One of the sons of Christianus immigrated to the Baltic States where several generations later, my parents were born. Christianus' gravestone is in the graveyard as is my sister's Anneliese's.
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Sieglinde Stieda |
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2009-11-27 01:10:23 |
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sieglinde9@gmail.com |
Dear Alfred-Maurice de Zayas,
Thank you for writing A TERRIBLE REVENGE. I was born 1942 in Stettin; had polio in 1944; left Stettin on March 9th, 1945 with my mother and 3 brothers. We headed for Sassnitz on the Island of Ruegen where my two sisters were. All my oldest brother Chris (born 1930) remembers from that time is that he was always hungry. AT some point we left with the supposed last freighter Orestes from Sassnitz. We survived torpedoes & bombs. Then at the beginning of MAy be were in the port of Copenhagen.We may have been the last refugee boat that was accepted by Denmark. One of my older sisters describes our arrival in this way:
“After the freighter we were on docked in Kopenhagen the Kapitain walked to the harbour authorities in his uniform as a captain in the merchant marine. He was NOT a soldier. However he never made it on his first try through the crowd of celebrating Danes, now freed from the German occupation. I do not know what they did to him if anything. He returned to the freighter and changed into civilian clothes. This time he made it but had trouble getting anyone to listen. He finally put it to THEM that they were not giving him any other option except to hoist the yellow flag and go out to sea, burying one by one the refugees as they died from starvation and diseases and reporting this to the International Red Cross. That got some action and a pot of soup arrived on board. He relayed this to our mother as she asked him for help.”
So we were helped after all. First the family was sent to a refugee camp north east of Copenhagen where we stayed until July 1945. According to my oldest brother, he thought that this first camp was called Kolding or Koldbing. At some point we were assigned numbers and files were created to track our stay in Denmark until we left with transport number 7 for the American zone, sector Bremen. My siblings and I are said to have left June 2nd, 1947, but my mother is said to have left May 21st, 1947, which is odd as I thought that we travelled together.
Here are the names and numbers we were assigned:
Marie Stieda, born Johannsohn, born July14, 1904 refugee number G 02 237 066
Christian Stieda born January 3rd, 1930 refugee number G 02 237 067
Anneliese Stieda born March 14, 1931 refugee number G 02 237 068
Eva-Maria Stieda born September 27, 1933 refugee number G 02 237 069
Hans-Joachim Stieda born February 10, 1936 refugee number G 02 237 070
Roland Stieda born March 9, 1939 refugee number G 02 237 071
Sieglinde Stieda born May 9th, 1942 refugee number G 02 237 072
Were those numbers assigned by the Red Cross? What was the significance of the numbers? Did the G stand for German? What is the significance of the 02 ? Am I correct in assuming that the last six digits of my number 237 072, meant that I was the 237 072nd German refugee to be recorded? How many more refugees were recorded after me?
There are several things that puzzle me, mostly relating to my exact location during my stay in Denmark. In July 1945, we were transferred to Aalborg Ost, Camp 48-9. Apparently my brother Hans-Joachim (No. G02 237 070) was in a Laz Aalborg from December 14th, 1945 to December 21st, 1945 and my mother Marie Stieda (No. G 02 237 066) was in Laz II Aalborg from February 28th, 1946 to April 3rd, 1946. If my mother was in a sort of hospital, who would have looked after us during this time? My siblings don’t seem to remember her being away? However, there does not seem to be a record of me (No. G02 237 072) having been in hospital. Yet my life was saved by some Danish Diokanissen (Protestant nuns?) who apparently took me in very early on during my stay in Denmark as I had a serious case of Typhus. As I had had poliomyelitis, the previous year, there was still some paralysis and weakness evident in my body. I am curious to know who those nuns were? How long did I stay with them? What motivated those nuns to save my life when the Danish physicians had voted not to treat German refugees? What risks did those nuns take in order to save my life? Did any of these nuns speak German? Or did I, a very sick 3 year old just hear Danish spoken for several months? I must have been back in the camp in Aalborg by June 20th, 1946, as records indicate that I received 1 P. Babystrümpfe (one pair baby stockings) on that day.
One of my first memories from Aalborg is that I teased a mentally challenged older child who had drawn lines of an imaginary house on the ground. I erased one of those lines, which prompted the older child to push a rusty fork into my head. Yet, there does not appear to have been a record of me having been in any hospital or clinic. Why?
During our stay in the camp in Aalborg, a carpenter whose name may have been Hansen, and his mother-in-law (maybe she was the Hansen person) helped my family, especially my brother Hansel and my mother. I believe that it may have been illegal for Danish people to help German refugees at the time. What has been written about those Danish people who defied the government and helped the refugees?
I have written to the Danish Red Cross, but they answered stating that I can’t ask them questions. The request has to come from the Canadian Red Cross since I now live in Canada. The Canadian Red Cross says that they can't help me.
I have read Arne Gaamelgaard’s book, Ungeladene Gäste, and I have been in contact with Dr. Kirsten Lylloff.
I have so many questions. When did the freighter ORESTES that took us from Sassnitz to Copenhagen leave and arrive? Has anything been written about the trip by the Orestes? Where could I find information about the Orestes? Where can I find out more about the activities of those Protestant nuns and those Danish people who may have risked their lives to help us?
Reading your book has made me realized how cut-off I have been from my roots, even though I visited Germany in 1963, 1968, and 1975. Now that I am retired I have the time to read but can't always get the books on this period of history from my local library. I occasionally travel to the UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA and try to read books there, but it means travelling about 5 hours total just to get there and back.
Having gone to school in Canada from grade 4 on, I kind of feel cheated by not having learned about the ethnic cleansing of the Volksdeutschen....
Again thank you for writing A TERRIBLE REVENGE. Since its in English, it will be accessible to my 14 nieces and nephews and their 26 kids.
Sincerely,
Sieglinde Stieda
Thank you.
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2009-11-01 06:05:53 |
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Dear Prof. de Zayas: YouTube has a brief clip of you in a trailer for a film documentary about war crimes produced by Polar Film. My local librarian tells me YouTube is an increasingly reputable channel for "micro-broadcasters".
Just read "War in the Empty Air" by the late Prof. Dagmar Barnouw, suggested to me by Prof. Brigitte Neary. Seems to me a fine and courageous piece of cultural and political criticism. Hard to disagree with her thinking, which, if I'm understanding her correctly, says that as long as many intellectual and political elites regard Germany under National Socialism as an undifferentiated blob of evil, today's unscrupulous politicians will enjoy handy political cover for their own excesses and abuses. Consider, e. g., the "death panels" phrase in America's current health care debate, or "axis of evil", used by a previous American President. |
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2009-10-19 14:55:17 |
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| Dr. de Zayas, I am a producer with Voice of Reason Broadcasting and would like to invite you to appear as a guest on The Sunic Journal radio show. The host is Dr. Tomislav Sunic, who is a former Croatian diplomat (much of his diplomatic work was done in Algeria) and professor of political science. We are doing a series on the ethnic cleansing of Germans after WWII, and I think an interview with you would be perfect. Please let me know if you would be interested in coming on the show. |
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2009-09-23 13:45:47 |
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Mr de Zayas,
I entered a note some time ago, having read "A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans", to say thank you for writing such an interesting and thought provoking book.
I have been reading a lot over the past two years on what happened to Germans and people of German extraction after the war. Having been born in 1950 in England I am lucky I did not have to go through such things.
I have taken such an interest in the subject that I have created a website to encourage others to learn about what happened.
The URL is: http://peopleinglasshouses.wikidot.com
It is “finished” in terms of it being, I hope, of an “acceptable” standard to be viewed. I still aim to put more content in as I find stuff / thoughts / relevant links to include as well as improve the aesthetics and functionality as I learn more about how to do such things.
Would it be possible for you to grant me permission to use the image of the cover of your book that I saw on your website http://alfreddezayas.com/books.shtml in my website on the page that I have regarding your book? Two other authors have granted me permission to use the images of their book covers and I am now in the process of asking the remaining authors. |
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