[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Berhard SCHWARZ and Hans GRIMM

[Günther Böhm]

Richard Benert schrieb:

> Günther, and whoever else is interested, Good Morning.
>
> I think you're being a bit too hard on poor Schwarz.  It's true, he 
> looked down on the Poles and Muzhiks he was writing about, but I 
> really think he was trying to convey how the German migrants felt AT 
> THE TIME (not how 20th-century Nazis felt about them).  And I don't 
> think you can say that the 18th- and 19th-century colonists and 
> weavers who moved into Poland had designs of domination.  Or can you?

Hello Dick,
sorry for my allergical reaction, I just read an article on nazi 
'Ostsiedlung'.

BUT: do you think it is by accident that Hans GRIMM's 'Volk ohne Raum' 
(like all of his nationalist and colonialist publications) and Bernhard 
SCHWARZ' 'Wolhyniendeutsches Schicksal' came from the same editor 
(Langen-Müller, München)? That Bernhard SCHWARZ also published (together 
with Friedrich HACKENBERG) the schoolbooks 'Das ewige Deutschland' [The 
Eternal Germany] and 'Die Selbstbefreiung des deutschen Geistes' [The 
Self-Liberation of the German Spirit]?

In times of the Third Reich and especially after 1939 no book or article 
with such a political subject could be edited without permission of 
Josef GOEBBELS' Reichsschrifttumskammer. You was allowed to publish if 
you bended just the proposed little bit to fit your message into the 
official ideology. The German tragedy came because too many people did 
what they were ordered or just told to do.

Günther