2014年2月15日 · In Germany there functions what I would call the Ostsiedlung Myth, acccording to which Germans constructed all cities in Central and Eastern Europe, and according to which the Magdeburg Law was something originally created by the "nation of German burghers" as a collective, rather than by two people (Archbishop of Magdeburg Wichman and Emperor ...

2018年12月17日 · Do we know what percentage of Germany's total population moved east during the Ostsiedlung? Looking at a map, the German language zone made significant gains during the Ostsiedlung: However, I don't know how much of these gains were the result of Germans moving east and how many of these gains were the result of Poles, Old Prussians ...

2015年7月25日 · In the 1998 book, The Northern Crusades, the author stated that almost none of the histories of the 12th through the 14th centuries' colonizers of Pomerania & Prussia are printed in any languages but German, Polish or Russian. If I …

2015年12月1日 · That's the thing though, and what makes the german lenensraum experiment much different to the american notion of manifest destiny, german speaking peoples had been in the baltic since the days of the knights of templar, all through the middle ages and until at least the first world war there had been germans or cultural germans in the baltic riviera, world war II if …

2015年12月19日 · Migrants from India and Pakistan into Britain. Canada Geese. (Sorry) THe current problems with the Forth Road Bridge have been engineered to stop the English migrating to Scotland.

2015年12月1日 · Also, though, I would like to point out that Hitler's dream of an Eastern European empire appears to have been a combination of his desire to recover Germany's Eastern European empire from 1918 and of his desire to continue the Ostsiedlung process (a process which began back in the Middle Ages):

2016年11月2日 · The laughter of history is that Germans are one of the most genetically mixed nations in Europe.. not mentioning that 20% have Slavic origin, Prussians had huge mix of Baltic blood and they are mixed with Celts. The closest to original of Germanics are Norwegians. The laughter of history is...

2014年1月18日 · While reading an article about Konrad Adenauer, I found this interesting quote: "I can still vividly the day one of my schoolmates told me: "We Rhinelanders are the true Germans. The Prussians are Obotrites, Wends, Slavs and the like who put together their state by theft and violence." I have...