[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German-Polish history textbook source of friction

[Jerry Frank]

Here is the original book:

http://www.amazon.de/Kalte-Heimat-Geschichte-deutschen-Vertriebenen/dp/3886808610


Jerry



----- Original Message -----
From: Edie Adam <edieadam at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011 7:36 pm
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German-Polish history textbook source of friction
To: Jerry Frank <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca>
Cc: ger-poland-volhynia <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>

> Hi Jerry: I wondered about that map, too. It doesn't show 
> populations in
> Russia other than the Volga, although my personal experience is 
> that Germans
> were in the area around Bryansk and Orel in the 19th century.
> 
> The source was cited as "A Cold Homeland: The History of the German
> Expellees after 1945" by Andreas Kossert.So maybe it was 
> intended to show
> populations from that time. I wonder if anyone has ever seen 
> this book?
> 
> Edie
> 
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Jerry Frank 
> <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca>wrote:
> > Good article.  I wonder however what concentration of 
> German population it
> > takes to make it on the map of Eastern Europe.
> >
> > The whole south side of the Wisla (Vistula) River is missing 
> the Germans
> > who were in Ilow, Gabin, Gostynin and Nowe Wies 
> parishes.  The Suwalki
> > region seems too lightly represented as is the region west and 
> northwest of
> > Lodz.  Volhynia appears to be shown fairly accurately.
> >
> > Maybe I'm just being too sensitive.
> >
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Edie Adam <edieadam at gmail.com>
> > Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011 1:03 pm
> > Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German-Polish history textbook 
> source of
> > friction
> > To: ger-poland-volhynia <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> >
> > > Hello all: Der Spiegel online has an English-language story
> > > about efforts to
> > > write a joint German-Polish history text for use in schools 
> in both
> > > countries. One source of contention is the treatment of events
> > > surroundingthe movement of ethnic Germans from lands turned over
> > > to Poland after World
> > > War II. Here's the link for those interested:
> > > http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,759740,00.html
> > >
> > > Edie Adam
> > > Virginia, USA
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