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Die Reise findet statt, um brennende Fragen zu lösen

Zur Neuauflage von H. G. Adlers Roman "Eine Reise" nebst einer Anmerkung zu W. G. Sebalds "Luftkrieg und Literatur"

Von Marcel Atze


Peter Rentschler Aikman schrieb uns am 04.09.2006
Thema: Marcel Atze: Die Reise findet statt, um brennende Fragen zu lösen

Peter Rentschler Aikman
Sehr geehrte liebe Freunde!  Dear Friends!
The crimes committed AGAINST the Germans in WW2 were almost as horrendous as those
committed BY the Germans. Five hundred thousand Germans were victims of the
terror bombings which left European cultural centers such as Dresden a desert of
smoldering ruins. Certainly die Flucht und Vertreibung was a GERMAN holocaust.
At least 12 million Germans were expelled from areas which, in some cases,
had been German for 800 years. Of these 12 million, at least 2 million lost
their lives. Women and young girls were mass raped from ages 8 to 80. Old men and
boys who tried to protect them were often castrated and shot. The allies'
criminal decision to deprive Germany of l/4 of her land in the East resulted in
some
82 million citizens
now being crammed into an area the size of Montana. Poland, with a much
smaller population, is nearly as big as her western neighbor. Within Poland's
borders
are the old German provinces of Silesia, Southern East Prussia, East
Pomerania, West Prussia and parts of Brandenburg. Gone are the bastions of
German culture such as Koenigsberg, Breslau, Danzig, and Stettin. What German
could not feel the pain and helplessness of such unfair, criminal losses?
I am an American who served in West Germany during the Cold War. I learned
about the Flucht und Vertreibung from Germans who had lost everything and
experienced famine, rape and the murder of loved ones. Even I, an American, who
experienced none of this am compelled to study this great injustice while
feeling great sorrow, pain and anger. I find it hard to believe that America
and it allies sanctioned these crimes against the German people. As Abraham
Lincoln said,
'Nothing is settled until it is settled fairly'. The problem of the flight
and expulsion will continue to fester until a fair solution is found.

P.S.
Perhaps Americans could better understand the feelings of millions of German expellees if they could imagine the US losing a war and the victors arbitrarily awarding my home state California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico  and the great state of Texas to Mexico.  Actually Mexico has a more valid claim to these states than Poland does to Eastern Germany.
Our friends the Brits could better understand if they would allow themselves to imagine the loss of one quarter of their present territory.

Peter R. Aikman
456 Dela Vina
Apartment F-3
Monterey, California 93940 USA
itspete99@aol.com
(831) 646-0697

PLEASE consider this letter for publication .   THANK YOU!





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