Canada or the United States?: The Paths of Three Ethnic German Families in the Wake of World War Two, Erika Weidemann, 2018

[Canada or the United States?: The Paths of Three Ethnic German Families in the Wake of World War Two, Erika Weidemann, 2018. Книга исследует пути трёх семей этнических немцев (мennonитов) из поселения Чортитца в Украине после Второй мировой войны, их перемещение в Канаду, США и Западную Германию. Описыва] Yearbook of German-American Studies 53 (2018) 133 Erika Weidemann Canada or the United States?: The Paths of Three Ethnic German Families in the Wake of World War Two It was twenty degrees below zero as a mother and her children hurriedly placed a few bundles onto a wagon pulled by a lame horse. Leaving the Polish farm the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (Ethnic German Liaison Office) had assigned them a year earlier, the family departed; it was January 1945. Although unsure of their destina…

[Canada or the United States?: The Paths of Three Ethnic German Families in the Wake of World War Two, Erika Weidemann, 2018. Книга исследует пути трёх семей этнических немцев (мennonитов) из поселения Чортитца в Украине после Второй мировой войны, их перемещение в Канаду, США и Западную Германию. Описыва] 134 Yearbook of German-American Studies 53 (2018) of prosperity for the ethnic German settlement, and Chortitza expanded to include eighteen daughter villages as other ethnic German settlements developed across the steppes.2 The twentieth century, however, brought challenges for many ethnic Germans living in Russia including anti-German sentiments and universal male conscription into the military. Johann and Marianne Bob illustrate the particular trials this ethnic group encountered fro…