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by Rajkumar Kanagasingam - 2007-06-23
While I was talking to Andrea, a student came to us and showed a questionnaire, which was about the ethnic issues of the Island. I observed from Andrea's face that she was keen to know what it was all...
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by Rajkumar Kanagasingam - 2007-06-23
Mirko joined me at the restaurant. He was from Dresden, an eastern city of Germany. He said his city was the most ravaged in the Second World War. He repeated over and over again that Dresden was heav...
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by Rajkumar Kanagasingam - 2007-06-23
He believed in personal diplomacy the same way as he had in mind with his British cousins, with his cousin-in-law Tsar Nicholas II of Russia also to build up a greater relationship between the two nat...
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by Rajkumar Kanagasingam - 2007-06-23
Following World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Russia experienced mass starvation from 1920 to 1924 caused largely by a government policy of forced grain requisition. When the Volga Germa...
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by Rajkumar Kanagasingam - 2007-06-23
A visiting German team became familiar to me when we were having dinner at the beach-end restaurant at the Aquarius resort as we were sitting at adjoining tables. They were going to Adam's Peak in a f...
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by Rajkumar Kanagasingam - 2007-06-23
Overall, Anglo-American bombing of German cities claimed between 305,000 and 600,000 civilian lives. But the devastation in Dresden made a great impact on neutral countries at that time. Howard Cowan,...
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by Rajkumar Kanagasingam - 2007-06-23
The firebombing campaign was supposed to begin with an USAAF Eighth Air Force raid on Dresden on February 13 but bad weather over Europe prevented any American operations. So it fell to RAF Bomber Com...
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by Rajkumar Kanagasingam - 2007-06-23
A century after the first Germans had settled in the Volga region, Russia passed legislation that revoked many of the privileges promised to them by Catherine the Great. The sentiment in Russia became...
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by Rajkumar Kanagasingam - 2007-06-25
Andrea was narrating various issues about Austria. When I asked Andrea how most of the Austrians identify themselves as Austrians or Germans, she said, "there are complex issues. We have a unique cult...
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by Rajkumar Kanagasingam - 2007-06-25
Whatever the persecution Germans faced historically what Dietmar Doering was telling me came into mind as to how the Germanic tribes under the command of Arminius (Hermann) by one stroke against the R...
