Those interested in the East may also be interested in this book. I put a reference in the Donauschwaben pages at http://www.genealogy.com/gene/reg/ESE/dslit.html#his Rick
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This was sent to me by my cousin. It may be of interest to pursue.
I ran across a book today that would probably be of interest to you. It's a short collection (180 pages) of testimonies from ethnic Germans who were expelled from their homelands in central and eastern Europe in l944-45. It's called "Documents of Humanity During the Mass Expulsions," compiled by K.O. Kurth, edited by the Goettingen Research Committee, translated by Helen Taubert and Margaret Brooke, Forward by Albert Schweitzer. It was published by Harper in l954.
The documents describe acts of kindness and compassion that the expellees occasionally met with in this time of general misery. The book is little known in North America (at least I have never run across any reference to it) and is a very useful companion to the four volumes of "The Documents of the Expulsion," which chronicle in such detail the inhumanity of our century and are the most used of the primary sources. You might wish to mention this work to the Banat group.