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	<title>Comments on: REQUIEM FOR ADOLF HITLER</title>
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	<description>The Civic Platform has been launched to discuss and debate issues related to the West viewed as a cultural compound of Greco-Roman, Christian, and Germanic past. We firmly believe that race informs culture and is a necessary precondition for cultural identity and integrity. Hence, this political vehicle is dedicated to the preservation of the ethnic genetic interests (EGI) of people of European ancestry. Furthermore, since the West faces a demographic crisis of unprecedented proportions (for example, in 1950 Whites represented 30 percent of the world's population. This number will plummet to 8 percent by 2050), we hold that the current trends threatening the racial, historical, and cultural identities of people of European ancestry must be stopped and reversed, if the West is to survive and endure as a distinct racial, historical, and cultural entity.</description>
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		<title>By: Fred Scrooby</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-30135</link>
		<dc:creator>Fred Scrooby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A good site for lots of stuff about Siebenbürgen (lots of internal links to explore):

http://www.siebenbuerger.de/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A good site for lots of stuff about Siebenbürgen (lots of internal links to explore):</p>
<p><a href="http://www.siebenbuerger.de/" rel="nofollow">http://www.siebenbuerger.de/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Rusty</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29836</link>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here is a radio interview with Pat Buchanan about his new book,:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-duBtuLnRoo&#38;eurl=http://thestressblog.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is a radio interview with Pat Buchanan about his new book,:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-duBtuLnRoo&amp;eurl=http://thestressblog.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-duBtuLnRoo&amp;eurl=http://thestressblog.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Friedrich Braun</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29821</link>
		<dc:creator>Friedrich Braun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Probably, but I haven't read it yet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Probably, but I haven&#8217;t read it yet.</p>
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		<title>By: Rusty</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29820</link>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks, looks promising.  Is Buchanan's new book any good?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, looks promising.  Is Buchanan&#8217;s new book any good?</p>
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		<title>By: Friedrich Braun</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29818</link>
		<dc:creator>Friedrich Braun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You may start here: 
http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/welcome.html

***

LIFE IN THE THIRD REICH and The World Political Situation Then and Now by Friedrich Kurreck.

http://www.faem.com/eric/kurreck.htm 

1939 GERMAN ECONOMIC POLICY (under Hitler)
by Wilhelm Bauer

http://www.faem.com/books/economic.htm

Hitler’s Social Revolution
By: Gen. Leon Degrelle

http://www.stormfront.org/posterity/ns/social.html

The Enigma of Hitler
By: Gen. Leon Degrelle

http://www.stormfront.org/posterity/ns/enigma.html

How Hitler Consolidated Power in Germany and Launched A Social Revolution: The First Years of the Third Reich
LEON DEGRELLE

http://www.vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/12/3/Degrelle299-370.html

To understand why W.W. II happened and the forces behind it:

David Leslie Hoggan: The Forced War: Why Peaceful Revision Failed 

http://www.revisionists.com/revisionists/hoggan.html

A. J. P. Taylor: The Origins of The Second World War

Lots and lots of good stuff here:

http://www.jrbooksonline.com/index.htm

and here:

http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archivesindex.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You may start here:<br />
<a href="http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/welcome.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/welcome.html</a></p>
<p>***</p>
<p>LIFE IN THE THIRD REICH and The World Political Situation Then and Now by Friedrich Kurreck.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.faem.com/eric/kurreck.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.faem.com/eric/kurreck.htm</a> </p>
<p>1939 GERMAN ECONOMIC POLICY (under Hitler)<br />
by Wilhelm Bauer</p>
<p><a href="http://www.faem.com/books/economic.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.faem.com/books/economic.htm</a></p>
<p>Hitler’s Social Revolution<br />
By: Gen. Leon Degrelle</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stormfront.org/posterity/ns/social.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.stormfront.org/posterity/ns/social.html</a></p>
<p>The Enigma of Hitler<br />
By: Gen. Leon Degrelle</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stormfront.org/posterity/ns/enigma.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.stormfront.org/posterity/ns/enigma.html</a></p>
<p>How Hitler Consolidated Power in Germany and Launched A Social Revolution: The First Years of the Third Reich<br />
LEON DEGRELLE</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/12/3/Degrelle299-370.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/12/3/Degrelle299-370.html</a></p>
<p>To understand why W.W. II happened and the forces behind it:</p>
<p>David Leslie Hoggan: The Forced War: Why Peaceful Revision Failed </p>
<p><a href="http://www.revisionists.com/revisionists/hoggan.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.revisionists.com/revisionists/hoggan.html</a></p>
<p>A. J. P. Taylor: The Origins of The Second World War</p>
<p>Lots and lots of good stuff here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jrbooksonline.com/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.jrbooksonline.com/index.htm</a></p>
<p>and here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archivesindex.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archivesindex.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Rusty</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29817</link>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mann O Mann! that's a hellofalonglist.  We already know about den Eidechsenmenschen, so half of the investigative work is done.  I may eventually read most of this, but for now, what is the best way to help people see Den Fuehrer the way you do?  We have a lot of myths to smash, obviously, but where to start for the skeptical, so they can understand what the German leaders were really trying to do with National Socialism, what really happened, usw.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mann O Mann! that&#8217;s a hellofalonglist.  We already know about den Eidechsenmenschen, so half of the investigative work is done.  I may eventually read most of this, but for now, what is the best way to help people see Den Fuehrer the way you do?  We have a lot of myths to smash, obviously, but where to start for the skeptical, so they can understand what the German leaders were really trying to do with National Socialism, what really happened, usw.</p>
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		<title>By: Rusty</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29816</link>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I'll check it out.  No offense; I relooked at my post and saw that I could've phrased it better.  Dankeschoen.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll check it out.  No offense; I relooked at my post and saw that I could&#8217;ve phrased it better.  Dankeschoen.</p>
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		<title>By: Friedrich Braun</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29815</link>
		<dc:creator>Friedrich Braun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I didn't mean to offend you, Rusty. Here's my reading suggestions list:

http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2006/05/17/my-reading-suggestions-for-all-racialists-and-white-nationalists/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t mean to offend you, Rusty. Here&#8217;s my reading suggestions list:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2006/05/17/my-reading-suggestions-for-all-racialists-and-white-nationalists/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2006/05/17/my-reading-suggestions-for-all-racialists-and-white-nationalists/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Rusty</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29814</link>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oops, sorry, I meant, Friedrich, not Fred.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oops, sorry, I meant, Friedrich, not Fred.</p>
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		<title>By: Rusty</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29813</link>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What bug crawled up your ass, Fred?  I have no quarrel with you, never have.  Don't piss on me, I'm just telling you how a typical American sees things, nothing wrong with that.  And I've indicated that I'd like to know more.  Now stop being a dickwad and just talk to me.  What arguments work best on average people?  What books or videos or movies do you recommend?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What bug crawled up your ass, Fred?  I have no quarrel with you, never have.  Don&#8217;t piss on me, I&#8217;m just telling you how a typical American sees things, nothing wrong with that.  And I&#8217;ve indicated that I&#8217;d like to know more.  Now stop being a dickwad and just talk to me.  What arguments work best on average people?  What books or videos or movies do you recommend?</p>
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		<title>By: Friedrich Braun</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29810</link>
		<dc:creator>Friedrich Braun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"...more likely, thinks that we would’ve been trading one evil for another."

Yeah? Is that what "the Greatest Generation" still thinks? ("Great" at what, precisely?). 

A healthy, orderly, clean, homogeneous, White, Jew-free Europe. And a Jim Crowe U.S. where Whites are masters of their own house and destiny, and where the Jews' influence and power are strictly held in check...just from the perspective of White genetic interests it would've been immeasurably better to have the Third Reich come out victorious. From a White American point of view, what "nightmare" were you referring to again? 

Whites are about to go extinct everywhere because the West and its "Greatest Generation" chose to destroy Germany 60 years ago...I'm not interested in your dad's self-justifications. Objectively speaking, your dad, in his own little way, contributed to the Death of the West. 

As to educating you. Sorry, but I don't have the time...if you're too lazy to educate yourself, don't count on others to do it for you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230;more likely, thinks that we would’ve been trading one evil for another.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yeah? Is that what &#8220;the Greatest Generation&#8221; still thinks? (&#8221;Great&#8221; at what, precisely?). </p>
<p>A healthy, orderly, clean, homogeneous, White, Jew-free Europe. And a Jim Crowe U.S. where Whites are masters of their own house and destiny, and where the Jews&#8217; influence and power are strictly held in check&#8230;just from the perspective of White genetic interests it would&#8217;ve been immeasurably better to have the Third Reich come out victorious. From a White American point of view, what &#8220;nightmare&#8221; were you referring to again? </p>
<p>Whites are about to go extinct everywhere because the West and its &#8220;Greatest Generation&#8221; chose to destroy Germany 60 years ago&#8230;I&#8217;m not interested in your dad&#8217;s self-justifications. Objectively speaking, your dad, in his own little way, contributed to the Death of the West. </p>
<p>As to educating you. Sorry, but I don&#8217;t have the time&#8230;if you&#8217;re too lazy to educate yourself, don&#8217;t count on others to do it for you.</p>
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		<title>By: Rusty</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29808</link>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Friedrich, he nor I are enjoying it. He is a reasonably smart and hard-working man but he just doesn't see a firm connection or, more likely, thinks that we would've been trading one evil for another.   We don't like socialism here, seeing it as too close to communism.  So of course we aren't very fond of National Socialism. I remain undecided nonetheless simply because I suspect I don't have all the facts.  Bitte, educate me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Friedrich, he nor I are enjoying it. He is a reasonably smart and hard-working man but he just doesn&#8217;t see a firm connection or, more likely, thinks that we would&#8217;ve been trading one evil for another.   We don&#8217;t like socialism here, seeing it as too close to communism.  So of course we aren&#8217;t very fond of National Socialism. I remain undecided nonetheless simply because I suspect I don&#8217;t have all the facts.  Bitte, educate me.</p>
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		<title>By: Friedrich Braun</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29806</link>
		<dc:creator>Friedrich Braun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"My Dad, a fine American officer of 30 years, does not like Hitler one bit."

Then I hope that he's enjoying the multiracial, Zionist, Jew-controlled and dominated "kwa where Whites are getting biologically and culturally exterminated. It was people like him who made it happen! EN-JOY!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;My Dad, a fine American officer of 30 years, does not like Hitler one bit.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then I hope that he&#8217;s enjoying the multiracial, Zionist, Jew-controlled and dominated &#8220;kwa where Whites are getting biologically and culturally exterminated. It was people like him who made it happen! EN-JOY!</p>
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		<title>By: Rusty</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29804</link>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting post on Hitler, I did not know these things.  In fact, I don't know much at all about him except for what I've seen and heard in the popular press.  My Dad, a fine American officer of 30 years, does not like Hitler one bit.  

Thanks for the info on Wagner, I'll look it up.  I'm always on the lookout for good music.  Any advice on the orchestra or conductor or music label?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting post on Hitler, I did not know these things.  In fact, I don&#8217;t know much at all about him except for what I&#8217;ve seen and heard in the popular press.  My Dad, a fine American officer of 30 years, does not like Hitler one bit.  </p>
<p>Thanks for the info on Wagner, I&#8217;ll look it up.  I&#8217;m always on the lookout for good music.  Any advice on the orchestra or conductor or music label?</p>
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		<title>By: Fred Scrooby</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29791</link>
		<dc:creator>Fred Scrooby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The way I first found out about Kurland and the Baltic German communities (which were nearly as old as the Siebenbürgen ones) was I was reading one day about the WW-I Treaty of Brest-Litovsk when I saw stipulation therein for setting up a "Duchy of Courland" under German hegemony.  I asked myself, "Courland?  What's that?"  Thus began my education about the age-old German communities in what is now Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, a very rich, complex history.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The way I first found out about Kurland and the Baltic German communities (which were nearly as old as the Siebenbürgen ones) was I was reading one day about the WW-I Treaty of Brest-Litovsk when I saw stipulation therein for setting up a &#8220;Duchy of Courland&#8221; under German hegemony.  I asked myself, &#8220;Courland?  What&#8217;s that?&#8221;  Thus began my education about the age-old German communities in what is now Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, a very rich, complex history.</p>
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		<title>By: Fred Scrooby</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29785</link>
		<dc:creator>Fred Scrooby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In fact, that particular Grimm book happens to be right near the computer here.  Here's the passage:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Die Straße wodurch die Kinder zum Tor hinausgegangen, hieß noch in der Mitte des XVIII. Jahrhunderts (wohl noch heute) die bunge-lose (trommel-, tonlose, stille), weil kein Tanz darin geschehen noch Saitenspiel durfte gerührt werden.  Ja, wenn eine Braut mit Musik zur Kirche gebracht ward, mußten die Spielleute über die Gasse hin stillschweigen.  Der Berg bei Hameln, wo die Kinder verschwanden, heißt der Poppenberg, wo links und rechts zwei Steine in Kreuzform sind aufgerichtet worden.  Einige sagen, die Kinder wären in eine Höhle geführt worden und in &lt;b&gt;Siebenbürgen&lt;/b&gt; wieder herausgekommen.&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In fact, that particular Grimm book happens to be right near the computer here.  Here&#8217;s the passage:</p>
<blockquote><p>Die Straße wodurch die Kinder zum Tor hinausgegangen, hieß noch in der Mitte des XVIII. Jahrhunderts (wohl noch heute) die bunge-lose (trommel-, tonlose, stille), weil kein Tanz darin geschehen noch Saitenspiel durfte gerührt werden.  Ja, wenn eine Braut mit Musik zur Kirche gebracht ward, mußten die Spielleute über die Gasse hin stillschweigen.  Der Berg bei Hameln, wo die Kinder verschwanden, heißt der Poppenberg, wo links und rechts zwei Steine in Kreuzform sind aufgerichtet worden.  Einige sagen, die Kinder wären in eine Höhle geführt worden und in <b>Siebenbürgen</b> wieder herausgekommen.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Fred Scrooby</title>
		<link>http://www.thecivicplatform.com/2008/07/27/requiem-for-adolf-hitler/#comment-29784</link>
		<dc:creator>Fred Scrooby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I first learned there were Germans living there this way:  some years ago I happened to glance at the TV a few minutes in passing, and saw a few minutes of one of these old silent-era Dracula films, I forget which one -- maybe one made in Germany?  Must've been one made in Germany, or in Europe.  In the scene I happened to see, there were lots of local townsfolk in a café having some beer, some smoking pipes, and dressed in folklorish costumes that made me say to myself, "Those are German costumes, I'm sure of that.  But I thought this movie was Dracula, set in Romania."  I was confused.  Then when I passed again in front of the TV again later, the film was over and they were discussing it, the host and a young German actress, I have no idea who she was, thinking back.  At one point in the discussion she mentioned to the host, "Did you notice the German folk in that café scene?  That's because there used to be Germans living in that part of Romania."  That one sentence stuck in the back of my mind.  A couple of years later I happened to be reading Grimm's "German Legends" ("Deutsche Sagen") and in the Pied Piper story it said some people thought the children who were led away by the Pied Piper wound up in "Siebenbügen," which I looked up and learned it was this place in what is now part of Romania where for a thousand years Germans lived.  After I first got online and began looking things up, that was one thing I looked into, finding it was accurate, there was a huge German community in what is now Central Romania, what was then Transylvania (Siebenbürgen), a community as old as William the Conqueror's invasion of England, a very ancient German community living there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I first learned there were Germans living there this way:  some years ago I happened to glance at the TV a few minutes in passing, and saw a few minutes of one of these old silent-era Dracula films, I forget which one &#8212; maybe one made in Germany?  Must&#8217;ve been one made in Germany, or in Europe.  In the scene I happened to see, there were lots of local townsfolk in a café having some beer, some smoking pipes, and dressed in folklorish costumes that made me say to myself, &#8220;Those are German costumes, I&#8217;m sure of that.  But I thought this movie was Dracula, set in Romania.&#8221;  I was confused.  Then when I passed again in front of the TV again later, the film was over and they were discussing it, the host and a young German actress, I have no idea who she was, thinking back.  At one point in the discussion she mentioned to the host, &#8220;Did you notice the German folk in that café scene?  That&#8217;s because there used to be Germans living in that part of Romania.&#8221;  That one sentence stuck in the back of my mind.  A couple of years later I happened to be reading Grimm&#8217;s &#8220;German Legends&#8221; (&#8221;Deutsche Sagen&#8221;) and in the Pied Piper story it said some people thought the children who were led away by the Pied Piper wound up in &#8220;Siebenbügen,&#8221; which I looked up and learned it was this place in what is now part of Romania where for a thousand years Germans lived.  After I first got online and began looking things up, that was one thing I looked into, finding it was accurate, there was a huge German community in what is now Central Romania, what was then Transylvania (Siebenbürgen), a community as old as William the Conqueror&#8217;s invasion of England, a very ancient German community living there.</p>
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		<title>By: Fred Scrooby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fred Scrooby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That paper also has a little map showing the locations of the Seven German Fortress Cities of Siebenbürgen which the German settlers were required (as a condition for settling there) to build as a bulwark against invasion of Hungary from the south and east -- Hermannstadt, Kronstadt, Klausenburg, Bistritz, Schäßburg, Mediasch, Mühlbach.  These Germans including Flemings and Luxemburgers as well as Rheinlanders and folk from the Moselle-Valley/Trier area and some Schwabians (plus a few Walloons from the Liège area, it is thought, but not known for certain) had as their obligation to the crown of Hungary to defend that realm against invasion by the Turks, in exchange for which they received special privileges which remained in force during many centuries.  After WW-I and the disolution of the Austrian Empire under which they were a principality I believe (or a duchy?, I forget), they formally petitioned the conference (either Versailles or Trianon, I forget which) to be considered (along with the adjoining Banat region, also settled by Germans) as a separate country from Romania but were turned down by the bastards running that conference, and got incorporated into Romania.  I'm surprised and gratified they're still hanging on there as well as they are.  Lots of them returned to Germany when Ceausescu fell in 1990 and my impression was only a handful stayed, mainly the old.  Time will tell if they manage to re-juvenate that ancient, distinctive, very interesting Germanic culture and population there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That paper also has a little map showing the locations of the Seven German Fortress Cities of Siebenbürgen which the German settlers were required (as a condition for settling there) to build as a bulwark against invasion of Hungary from the south and east &#8212; Hermannstadt, Kronstadt, Klausenburg, Bistritz, Schäßburg, Mediasch, Mühlbach.  These Germans including Flemings and Luxemburgers as well as Rheinlanders and folk from the Moselle-Valley/Trier area and some Schwabians (plus a few Walloons from the Liège area, it is thought, but not known for certain) had as their obligation to the crown of Hungary to defend that realm against invasion by the Turks, in exchange for which they received special privileges which remained in force during many centuries.  After WW-I and the disolution of the Austrian Empire under which they were a principality I believe (or a duchy?, I forget), they formally petitioned the conference (either Versailles or Trianon, I forget which) to be considered (along with the adjoining Banat region, also settled by Germans) as a separate country from Romania but were turned down by the bastards running that conference, and got incorporated into Romania.  I&#8217;m surprised and gratified they&#8217;re still hanging on there as well as they are.  Lots of them returned to Germany when Ceausescu fell in 1990 and my impression was only a handful stayed, mainly the old.  Time will tell if they manage to re-juvenate that ancient, distinctive, very interesting Germanic culture and population there.</p>
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		<title>By: Fred Scrooby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fred Scrooby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The link works after the gap is closed.  I just tried it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The link works after the gap is closed.  I just tried it.</p>
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		<title>By: Fred Scrooby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fred Scrooby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here's the paper itself (in pdf format):  I'm putting one gap in the URL, so this comment won't be rejected -- the gap is before Ligia and will need to be closed before the URL will work:

http://www.legmed.ro/files/revista/2004-4/03- Ligia-ADN.pdf</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s the paper itself (in pdf format):  I&#8217;m putting one gap in the URL, so this comment won&#8217;t be rejected &#8212; the gap is before Ligia and will need to be closed before the URL will work:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.legmed.ro/files/revista/2004-4/03-" rel="nofollow">http://www.legmed.ro/files/revista/2004-4/03-</a> Ligia-ADN.pdf</p>
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