#UpperSilesia #Pomerania #people #Oder #DayOfTheHomeland #Neisse #Stettin #Sudetenland #Hitler #WorldWar #Saar #EastPrussia #Homeland #Breslau #RightOfHomeland #GermanQuestion #1945 #Friedland
Excerpts: North German Stories (NDR, September 23, 1957); SWR Evening Show (September 13, 1958); SWR Evening Show (September 12, 1964).
#Stezz ... 0:50 Situation in Breslau in the summer of 1945: "Do you know how you can recognize a German? By his walking stick and his rucksack. Then you can hit him like a ton of bricks. You don't have to fear anything from the police. They won't lay a finger on you. To get a suit, a pair of boots, all you have to do is fight. Because there were Germans everywhere, and they were all fair game."
2:00 Transport of resettlers at the border station in Büchen
5:24 Benterode (Hannoversch Münden district) - Two resettler families report
6:56 Interview with Mrs. Mintus from Gleiwitz
7:53 "There are still many Germans [in Upper Silesia], and everyone is eager to get out, because we lack a lot there intellectually. There are few German books or German cinemas."
8:09 Question: Although there are still many Germans there, do you feel lonely? - "Yes. Very alien!"
8:17 Interview with Mrs. Wels from East Prussia (from Arys, later from Nikolaiken)
9:45 "Unfortunately, I have to emphasize that my poor parents had to stay there [in Poland]."
9:52 Question: What are the living conditions like in Nikolaiken or in East Prussia in general? - "Very poor. I have to say, my father received a pension of up to 60 zlotys. He was a war veteran."
10:07 Question: What can you buy with 60 zlotys? - "60 zlotys? That's the equivalent of one kilogram of butter!"
10:12 Interview with a man from Poznań
10:29 "We are seen by the Poles as Polish traitors, not as Germans. And it's much harder to get to the Federal Republic because of this. We face a great deal of difficulty."
12:18 "With the collapse in 1945, the German Reich disintegrated, and almost 13 million Germans lost their homes. 2.5 million Germans lived in East Prussia before the war. Today, hardly any Germans live there anymore. Almost 2 million East Pomeranians, over half a million East Brandenburgers, and four and a half million Silesians were expelled."
13:22 Interview with Kurt Hofrichter (a Silesian from Peterswaldau)
15:07 Interview with Eberhard Rohde
15:44 "Yes, of course I would go back to Silesia—provided, of course, that it's German again!"
16:38 Interview with Mr. Feller from East Prussia
#UpperSilesia #Pomerania #people #Oder #DayOfTheHomeland #Neisse #Stettin #Sudetenland #Hitler #WorldWar #Saar #EastPrussia #Homeland #Breslau #RightOfHomeland #GermanQuestion #1945 #Friedland
Excerpts: North German Stories (NDR, September 23, 1957); SWR Evening Show (September 13, 1958); SWR Evening Show (September 12, 1964).
#Stezz ... 0:50 Situation in Breslau in the summer of 1945: "Do you know how you can recognize a German? By his walking stick and his rucksack. Then you can hit him like a ton of bricks. You don't have to fear anything from the police. They won't lay a finger on you. To get a suit, a pair of boots, all you have to do is fight. Because there were Germans everywhere, and they were all fair game."
2:00 Transport of resettlers at the border station in Büchen
5:24 Benterode (Hannoversch Münden district) - Two resettler families report
6:56 Interview with Mrs. Mintus from Gleiwitz
7:53 "There are still many Germans [in Upper Silesia], and everyone is eager to get out, because we lack a lot there intellectually. There are few German books or German cinemas."
8:09 Question: Although there are still many Germans there, do you feel lonely? - "Yes. Very alien!"
8:17 Interview with Mrs. Wels from East Prussia (from Arys, later from Nikolaiken)
9:45 "Unfortunately, I have to emphasize that my poor parents had to stay there [in Poland]."
9:52 Question: What are the living conditions like in Nikolaiken or in East Prussia in general? - "Very poor. I have to say, my father received a pension of up to 60 zlotys. He was a war veteran."
10:07 Question: What can you buy with 60 zlotys? - "60 zlotys? That's the equivalent of one kilogram of butter!"
10:12 Interview with a man from Poznań
10:29 "We are seen by the Poles as Polish traitors, not as Germans. And it's much harder to get to the Federal Republic because of this. We face a great deal of difficulty."
12:18 "With the collapse in 1945, the German Reich disintegrated, and almost 13 million Germans lost their homes. 2.5 million Germans lived in East Prussia before the war. Today, hardly any Germans live there anymore. Almost 2 million East Pomeranians, over half a million East Brandenburgers, and four and a half million Silesians were expelled."
13:22 Interview with Kurt Hofrichter (a Silesian from Peterswaldau)
15:07 Interview with Eberhard Rohde
15:44 "Yes, of course I would go back to Silesia—provided, of course, that it's German again!"
16:38 Interview with Mr. Feller from East Prussia
Königsberg: Kulturelles Herzstück und Hauptstadt Ostpreußens (Dokumentation 1942) https://youtu.be/wTWzdtEYWt8
Trümmerwüste. Eine Nachkriegsfahrt nach Breslau 1957 + Podiumsdiskussion "Das Recht auf Heimat" 1963 https://youtu.be/EhZZQ-uEfcs
Dokumentation: Skizzen aus Oberschlesien (Restaurierte Fassung) https://youtu.be/44CCxvuJEEU