oldenburg-l - Nachricht 2008-01 00111

[mstulken <mstulken(a)wi.net>]

A while back, I entered my surname plus "weltkrieg."  I came up with this
site:

http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/dkm_deutschland/grabstede_wk1u2_ns.htm

It's sad to see so many of my ancestral surnames in these lists.  Surely,
there are many cousins among them.

Marilyn

> Chris -
>
> During a visit to the Oldenburg area this past October, my husband noticed
> a
> book in a bookstore in Vechta whose title translated into something like,
> "How the Priests Fought the Nazi Terrorists".  When I asked my cousin (who
> lives in the area) about the book, she told us that during WWII, a few
> Nazi
> representatives came to the area and attempted to coerce the residents
> into
> giving up their religious symbols (this area has a large Catholic
> population).  The residents of the town surrounded the Nazi
> representatives
> and there was talk of attacking them, so the Nazi representatives beat a
> hasty retreat.  However, during the war, priests were hidden by the area's
> inhabitants so I would imagine there was, eventually, some persecution
> going
> on.
>
> Insofar as to how the war affected this area of Germany and its environs,
> I'm sure that the historians on this board could give you some great
> insight.
>
> Jan
>
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:01:41 -0500
> From: "Gary Johnson" <johngret60(a)comcast.net>
> Subject: [OL] Wolkes of Oldenburg
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> 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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> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:22:29 -0600
> From: "Christopher Grote" <cgrote(a)rush.edu>
> Subject: [OL] Olderburg during the Wars
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> 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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> Cc: Ansgar Hollah
> 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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