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Dr. Andreas Wesserle, a Carpathian German expellee, remembers the struggle to survive in a devastated post-war Germany. Topics include:

• School took place without teachers, textbooks or electricity;
• Food rations miniscule —pickled mutton, anyone?
• Cramped barracks housing with no toilets or running water lasted for years;
• Substitution of Deutschmark for Reichsmark wiped-out average Germans;
• Nation’s manufacturing equipment carted off by Brits, French, Russians;
• Millions died, mainly of starvation and exposure.

Photo caption (above right): Frankfurt, Germany: As a truckload of decayed food enters the main garbage disposal area in Frankfurt, destitute Germans clamber over it, trying to find some edibles to supplement their meager diet. Much of the waste comes from the U.S. Army cold storage plant in the city. Since these people have no valuables or money with which to trade in the black market, they have to root like animals. [Credit: U.S. Army Signal Corp Photo from Acme – 12/15/47]   Enlarge.

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• Elie Wiesel Cons The World sends letters to Boston University;
• Completion of Sobibór summary: thousands of Dutch and French Jews sent there showed up later in Ukraine and Lithuania;
• Andreas Wesserle describes his teaching career and some of his writings since emigrating to the United States from war-torn, refugee-filled West Germany with his parents in 1952. Born in Prague, his family were members of the Karpatendeutsche community in Slovakia and experienced the tyranny of the partisans in Sept. 1944.

To purchase Dr. Wesserle’s booklet on the Slovakian Germans, illustrated, written in German, about $9, email RFP Publications.

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• Revisionists still going to jail – the latest, Gerd Honsik in Austria;
• A closer look at alien immigration problems in Germany;
• Shultze-Rhonhof’s book Der Krieg, der viele Väter hatte (“The War Which Had Many Fathers”);
• German Supreme Court upholds right to publish a Politically Incorrect book;
• End of WWI reparations payments comes as a surprise to most;
• U.S. deliberately infected Guatemalan mental patients with syphilis to test penicillin, from 1946-48.

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