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Name:

Edyta

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2010-05-04 17:52:04

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edycza@wp.pl

guten tag
ich bin polnische bibliothekarin und ich suche Graf von Kalckreuth und
bitte hilfe mir
Ich wohne in Kożuchow , Freystat nach Niederschlesien , In Nieder
Siegersdorf Podbrzezie Dolne in palais Graf Kalkreuth wohnunen Salomon
Maimon
Er Starb in Palais
In der park ist er Grab / monuments , und ich suche das Bild , und
Photografien Anschickerten das Monuments , - Grab von 1945 Jahre
Wir haben renowieren das Monument und hilfen sie bitte mir
Vielen dank
E czaplinska

Name:

Claus Quassowski

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2010-04-27 10:13:57

email:

claus [at) quassowski (dot) de

Lieber Alfred,
ich hoffe, Du bist weiterhin bei guter Gesundheit!
Stoße gerade zufällig wieder auf unseren "Dialog" von 2004 und stelle fest, dass ich dort noch unter einer Mailadresse agierte, die wegen zuviel spam schon vor langer Zeit abgeschaltet werden mußte und unter der ich deshalb seitdem gar nicht mehr erreichbar bin. Wir wollten uns ja mal hier in Berlin wiedersehen. Vielleicht kannst Du Dich noch einmal unter meiner Mailadresse claus [at) quassowski (dot) de melden!

Name:

Jim Fisher

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2010-04-16 15:46:39

email:

jfisher.3@cox.net

Thank you for writing the story of the German migration from the east.

My Great Aunt fled Schagenthin in 1945, making her way to American lines and then to Denmark.

Your article mentions a report from the farmer, "AS Schlagenthin." Schlagenthin was owned by my grandparents. As I understand, my grandfather retained my Aunt and her husband to perform management at the property.

Is there anyway I could review the report you refer to?

The war took my grandparents in 1940. The farm was lost to history. Any scrap that would allow me to understand would be priceless.

Thank you again for providing such context to that place in time.

Best of luck in all you do.

Jim Fisher

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Bill Bila

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2010-03-24 15:33:32

email:

wlbila@gmail.com

I am attending your lecture tonight. I am a board member of the Roma Community Centre in Toronto. I am interested in establishing contacts with organizations that represent ethnic German interests in the Czech Republic,Hungary, and other countries that used to have a sizeable German minority and where today they still have a sizeable Romany minority. I believe it is in both the Germans and the Romany interest to stand up for the rights of minorities in the region, together.

Name:

Theodosios Kyriakidis

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2010-03-23 10:40:19

email:

theodosis@peristereota.com

Dear Prof. de Zayas
My name in Theodosios Kyriakidis and I am the director of the St. George Peristereota Research Centre (www.peristereota.com).
It's a Centre which deals with the history of the Greeks in Asia Minor and Pontus (nowadays Turkey).
As descendance of the Greeks who have been perished during the "forgotten Genocide" commited by the Young Turks we are organizing every May academic events in order to study some very important aspects of this Great Calamity.
Last year we had invited Prof. Roger Smith, Prof. Richard Hovannisian, Dr.Taner Akcam, and George Shirinian in a conference in Athens and Thessaloniki.

This year in collaboration with the Department of International and European Studies of the University of Macedonia we organise a Conference on the topic: International Law, Genocide and Human Rights.The speakers will be among others Prof. Greg Stanton, Prof. Joyce Apsel, Prof. Chatzikonstantinou, Prof. Perraki and others.
With this email I would like to invite you as a speaker to this conference which will be held in Thessaloniki on May 17,2010.

Needless to say that we will cover both your travel and accomodation expenses.

Thank in advance for your reply,

Sincerely yours,
Theodosios Kyriakidis

Name:

Christian S

data:

2010-03-21 16:23:40

email:

christians1974@hotmail.de

Grüße aus der Reiterstadt Verden an der Aller

www.verden.de

Christian

Name:

John Evans

data:

2010-03-16 20:40:08

email:

Evansinusa@aol.com

Dear Alfred, it has been a long time since we have been in communication. Tonight I am arguing with my wife, who was born in Leipzig of Austrian-Polish parents who were interned in forced labor camps, about your work on the expulsion of the Germans from Eastern Europe. Salut!

Name:

bernd krain

data:

2010-02-17 15:12:10

email:

bkrainmedia@web.de

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

data:

2010-01-20 08:52:00

email:

james.simeon@qeh.ox.ac.uk

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
+44 07570086194 (Mobile)

Name:

Pauline

data:

2010-01-20 03:24:00

email:

spyglass8@aol.com

Thank you for your authoritative study on the Genocide of the Armenians in Turkey.

Pauline
www.thejapanroom.org.uk

Name:

Christian

data:

2010-01-17 11:23:39

email:

christians1974@hotmail.de

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.)

Name:

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.

Name:

Elaine C. Tillinger

data:

2010-01-03 01:02:47

email:

etillinger@lindenwood.edu

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

Name:

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.”

Name:

josef heuser

data:

2009-12-10 22:34:29

email:

josefheuser@yahoo.com

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

Name:

josef heuser

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2009-12-10 22:33:33

email:

josefheuser@yahoo.com

Name:

data:

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.

Name:

BAAPPG

data:

2009-11-29 05:03:52

email:

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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