Adressbuch deutsch-amerikanischer Vereine und Gesellschaften in den USA
Author: J. Richly
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 161
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Author: J. Richly
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 161
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Luisa Lang Owen
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2002-11-19
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781585442126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot all casualties of war die on the battlefield. In the wake of World War II, Yugoslavia purged its territory of the ethnic Germans who had formed a part of its human mosaic. Tarred with their ethnic origins and the conscription of their fighting-age men into the Waffen SS, the Volksdeutsche, as these settlers were called, were rounded up at the war's end and herded into concentration camps. Those who were not murdered or did not die from the harsh conditions were expelled from the village homes their families had known and loved for three hundred years. Nine years old when she entered the concentration camp in 1945, author Luisa Lang Owen survived the persecution of the Danube Swabians, eventually finding herself in America, where she made a new life for herself, a life that nonetheless held within it the memories and lessons of the atrocities she had experienced in her homeland. Like thousands of other Germans in the Danube Valley at the end of the war, Luisa and her family were chased from their home, lodged in a sheep stall, and resettled in camps with other Germans from her village. Shorn of their possessions, given little food or fuel, pressed into hard labor, beaten by guards, and separated from their families, many despaired and many died. Luisa barely survived as others succumbed to malnutrition, disease, and exposure. Her haunting memoir provides a window into the ethnic cleansing that preceded the recent exterminations in Bosnia and Kosovo by fifty years—an episode of horrors that has not appeared as even a footnote in descriptions of the more recent atrocities practiced in that region. Her testament, as a casualty of war, bears historic witness and gives insight into the personal experiences of ethnic cleansing. It stands as witness to a massive crime that has been conveniently forgotten, a corrective to a bit of neglect that did away with its victims as a people, and a personal depiction of what ethnic cleansing is really about. “The problem was not just that they did not want us to have or to be,” Luisa Lang Owen writes, “they wanted us not to have been.”
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 207
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Merrill, Ellen C.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2014-11-30
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1455604844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the antebellum period, New Orleans was the largest German colony below the Mason-Dixon line. Later settlements moved upriver between New Orleans and Donaldsonville, near Lecompte, and in North Louisiana near Minden. Germans of Louisiana is the first unified published study of the influence the German people made on the state of Louisiana and its inhabitants. Beginning with the French and Spanish colonial periods and working through the post-Civil War period, this book covers the heritage those German settlers left behind.
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 550
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 216
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Published: 199?
Total Pages: 44
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 966
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 712
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Russell Kazal
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2004-07-26
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780691050157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Using quantitative methods, oral history, and a cultural analysis of written sources, the book explores how, by the 1920s, many middle-class and Lutheran residents had redefined themselves in "old-stock" terms - as "American" in opposition to southeastern European "new immigrants." It also examines working-class and Catholic Germans, who came to share a common identity with other European immigrants, but not with newly arrived black Southerners."