[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Musings about population demographics in Volhynia

[Richard Benert]

There may be more in Sinner's work that applies to German population in
Volhynia up to 1915 than I have found on brief searching and wrote about in
my long epistle awhile ago.  But Sinner's emphasis is on the period after
1915, and on Russia as a whole.  He doesn't have a lot to say about Volhynia
itself before 1915.

Notice, in J. Otto Pohl's review of Sinner below, that the figure of 200,000
deportees is given (for the whole southwest region).  This is 50,000 higher
than Sinner's own high estimate.

Dick Benert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Otto" <otto at schienke.com>
To: "Jerry Frank" <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Musings about population demographics in
Volhynia


> Jerry, perhaps some of these reviews. . . see URL
> \very little out there-
>   The Open Wound: The Genocide of German Ethnic Minorities in Russia and
> the Soviet Union, 1915-1949 and Beyond
> Updated: 7-5-2002
>
> By Samuel D. Sinner, with forwards by Dr. Gerd Stricker and  Eric J.
> Schmaltz, Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, North  Dakota State
> University Libraries, Fargo, ND, 2000, 353 pages, softcover and
> hardcover, English and German languages. Institute Room Germans from
> Russia. (not available on interlibrary loan).
>
> Book available at the following Germans from Russia Heritage
> Collection website:
> http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/order/general/sinner.html
>
> Book review by J. Otto Pohl, Sacramento, California, author of the
> book, Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949
> On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 09:59  AM, Jerry Frank wrote:
>
> ..Samuel Sinner's new book is a welcome addition to a growing body of
> literature on the subject of genocide. Sinner describes the various
> phases of the genocide perpetrated against the Russlanddeutschen and
> calculates the resulting excess mortality from each of these phases.
> The whole process of this genocide encompassed 34 years
>    (1915-1949) and three different rulers; Tsar Nicholas II, Lenin, and
> Stalin. During World War I, Tsar Nicholas II deported close to 200,000
> ethnic Germans from Volhynia, Bessarabia, and other western regions of
> the Russian Empire to Siberia.. .
>
> http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/info/book_reviews/sinnerreview.html
>
> > Are there any readers who have experience with historical population
> > demographics / statistics?
> >
>
> . . .  Otto
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