oldenburg-l - Nachricht 2008-01 00089

[Christopher Grote <cgrote(a)rush.edu>]

I was curious as to whether the Oldenburg area had any particular role or
involvement during WWI or WWII?  Any particular battles around there,
was there a Jewish population from there that was sent off, were the local
peoples particularly allied with or opposed to the Nazi regime?

Please excuse the potentially sensitive nature of the questions, but I don't
remember seeing this topic discussed before.  I was told by my German family
that there was a large POW camp outside of Visbek/Erlte during WWI, and that
my grandfather's sister snuck food through the fence to the prisoners there,
one of them being a Belgian POW who returned to her farm after the war and
married her.  I also happen to have a letter from my grandfather's brother,
a German soldier killed at Verdun, written a few days before he was killed
expressing his desire for the war to end so he could go home.  I have the
pocketwatch he was wearing when he was buried alive by a shell explosion.
So those stories are nice, but I'm wondering if there's a larger context of
"Oldenburg during the wars" in which these stories would fit.

Thanks,

Chris
Chicago
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Subject: [OL] Wolkes of Oldenburg

Hallo New Friends:

Noted refernece to the five pages of Wolke family in Oldenburg in the book
"Pastor Heinrich zu Hone und Seine Famiklienforschung." Could anyone advise

me on how to obtain copies of those five pages? Travel distances to see are
too great. Thank you.

Gary
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