European History

November 22, 2010

Prague-born Andreas Wesserle, with a PhD in Political Science, International Studies and History, explains the make-up, or mix-up, of national groups in this contentious area. Topics include:

• Kollar and the Pan-Slav Conference of 1848;
• Distinctions among the Poles, Lithuanians, Hungarians, Czechs and Romanians;
• Polish expansionism from 1919-1939 resulted in cruel persecutions and forced flight of one and a half million Germans; also Hungarians, Ukranians and others;
• Migration west to east since 12th century brought commerce, culture and new creativity into the eastern regions;
• Influence of Holy Roman Empire on German national character;
• And more.

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May 31, 2010

Carolyn Yeager discusses:

• Obama and Jews in the White House
• Elie Wiesel’s fund-raising
• The Revenge of the Neanderthals
• The truth about the Guernica “terror bombing”

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May 10, 2010

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Carolyn talks with Dr. Kriessmann about his book When I was a Schoolteacher’s Boy, a chronicle of his youth in Feistritz im Rosental (Austria) during the turbulent years between the World Wars. Topics include:

• A nationalist family
• School fraternities and the Hitler Youth
• The Austrian Anchluss, the culmination of hopes

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The search for mass graves to support WWII extermination numbers is taking a surprising turn

By Carolyn Yeager and Wilhelm Kriessmann

First published January 2010 - copyright 2010 Carolyn Yeager

Introduction: Questions about the official World War Two death figures increasingly mount. Where are the proofs for these numbers? Where are the bodies? Did people just vaporize into thin air--as some believe, going up in smoke through tall chimneys? 

Two responsible figures have recently and publicly added their voices to the question of six million Poles murdered (ostensibly by Nazis) between 1939 and 1945.

One is the last communist head of state for Poland from 1985-90, Wojciech Jaruzelski. Speaking to a journalist for Izvestia (Russian daily newspaper), he said, rather tongue-in-cheek, that he cannot understand how the Polish population exploded between 1946 and 1970, and then leveled off to become stagnant from 1990 till today. (https://de.soc.politik.misc.narkive.com/AOB1Dpcf/general-jaruzelski-polens-einwohner-statistik-wurde-gefalscht) He humorously remarked that there had to have been "a strong aphrodisiac" to lead to the birth of millions of new Poles because "in the grocery stores there had been only vinegar and millions had died even after the war."

Guest: Wilfried Heink. The Long Road to Czechoslovakia. The beginnings of this man-made, doomed-to-fail state go back to 1871.

Guest: Rudi Pueschel. How the newly created nation of Czechoslovia persecuted the Sudetan Germans after WWI and new evidence the Brtish were the main force behind it.

Dec. 16, 2009

Tom Sunic discusses the issues of freedom of speech and historical revisionism with Carolyn Yeager, an artist and a writer.

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