tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post7729867272891501687..comments2024-03-28T09:46:24.020+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : Sibiu or HermannstadtUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-19694549196748764052018-05-01T11:21:21.796+03:002018-05-01T11:21:21.796+03:00Let us have the academics speak about history and ...Let us have the academics speak about history and let us not drag such complex issues into the shallow internet area - it is simply not the right environment. About occupants, I suppose they should be happy in their countries historical borders, meaning that they live for something more evolved than only "lands and houses". Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17343436483373282574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-71964168841078595042018-05-01T01:15:18.489+03:002018-05-01T01:15:18.489+03:00"[The Germans] were expelled after the war fo..."[The Germans] were expelled after the war for the sins of their countrymen far away."<br /><br />In my opinion this is true in large measure. But it is not the complete picture. Romania fought besides the Nazis for more than three years. So, even if the Romanian citizens of German ethnicity had not fought in the Wehrmacht, but simply in the Romanian army, it would still have been used against them, as a pretext, by the post-war Communist administration, in order to despoil them of their lands and houses.<br /><br />However, to my knowledge, about 10% of Germans from the Romanian Banat (I don't know the situation of the Transylvanian Saxons) voluntarily enrolled in the Wehrmacht or SS. According to this article (in German) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banater_Schwaben#Zweiter_Weltkrieg there were about 63000 Germans from the Romanian Banat in the SS.<br /><br />I've visited OraviĊ£a five years ago. Somewhere around the church there was a poem in German. (I cannot find it online.) Its theme was the loss of men in the war, it deplored their deaths in far away lands and the futility of their actions. However it was so strangely ambiguously written, that I was a little shocked, maybe I'm biased but I had the feeling that it sounded a little like an elegy expressing the regret that their pursuit was thwarted and, as a consequence, their community and whole way of life was scattered and destroyed.Adso von Melkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12169937601531689048noreply@blogger.com