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Welcome - Wilkommen
"We are friends with Germany" |
"I have a dream" said Martin Luther King "that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" (Martin Luther King)
 Welcome to Friends of Germany Coalition where we too have a dream: A dream that all men and women are treated as equals. We have a dream that one day this world, your world, will rise up from the ashes of self destruction and treat all as equal regardless of col our, creed, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality or alleged historical liability. But what is historical liability - is it the collective responsibility
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The Local
Germany's News in English |
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Friends of Germany Coalition was created by an Englishman in early 2009. This Englishman, Mr Douglas Brough Bsc (Hons), Dip R/S, Cert Hum, Cert Soc Sci was subjected throughout his childhood to the censorship of history and state-imposed verdict of collective guilt attributed to the German people. In this age of human rights, equality, compassion and international human rights legislation, these rules, concepts and laws broadly remain out of reach of the German people. Friends of Germany Coalition is firmly committed to creating a world where all can be one, where others are treated as we would expect to be treated ourselves, and where international law is applied universally, fairly and without bias, distinction or national variation.
This is an online, English-language enterprise which has been designed to help fill the void in socio-cultural and political relations between the German people, wherever they may be, and the people and governments of the rest of the world.
In comparrison with other national, racial or other conceptual identities, there are few organizations anywhere in the world, on or off-line that are bold enough, maybe even brave enough to stand tall and shout out loud, declaring........"We are friends with Germany."
As a result of the void in fair and equal socio-cultural relations with the German people, we offer this website as a service to This website is offered as a service to, and as a token of our friendship towards the German people wherever in the world they may be.
Subsequently, this is your website in the sense that it is up to the German people to tell us what they would like to see on this site. We do offer a selection od news and reviews, events, discussions and information as well as a shopping facility where we hope to be able to offer a variety of items, books, movies and other
items of some relevance to the German community throughout the world. Although this website is primarily in the English language, there are some pages in German with a translation facility offered on every page. You should note however, that the translation service we offer is only a computer-generated translation and may not be 100% accurate. We are sure that it will give you the gist of the content you wish to translate.
On this page we do offer a selection of organizations and websites which we have noted, researched and found to be of some benefit to the German people and their friends throughout the world.
We do suggest that you visit these sites, but we must stress that we are in no way responsible for their content and/or accuracy or for any relationship that you may create with these organizations, as indeed they should not be held responsible for our content, accuracy or any relationship you may wish to create with Friends of Germany Coalition.
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Annsfilms.com
"The Forgotten Genocide" Official Website
annsfilms.com |
American film maker Ann Morrison was in Toronto, June 24-25, 2010 filming interviews for an ambitious seven-film series to tell the story of the 16-million Germans ethnically cleansed from their traditional homelands of the Sudeten-land, East Prussia, Memeland, Silesia, parts of the Ukraine, parts of Russia, northern Yugoslavia, southern Hungary and western Romania from 1944 to 1950.
Three million of the expellees were murdered; hundreds of thousands were gang raped as a matter of policy by communist Russian soldiers.
"College students are not shocked that this ethnic cleansing happened," she said of reaction to her film, “but that they had not been told about it. This was the largest expulsion in human history. Yet, I’ve been to college history departments and they've never heard of it," she explained.
'I developed a booklist of 285 titles on the expulsions. It's now grown to 678 titles. My college, St. Louis Community College (Meramec) now has one of the largest libraries on the hidden genocide."
Ann Morrison hopes to have this film finished by March, 2011. Telling the story of the expellees, she says, "is all consuming. It will probably be my life's work for the next 10-15 years," she told her packed Toronto audience (edited version from annsfilms.com Here).
We encourage you to visit annsfilms.com and learn more about "The Forgotten Genocide." Ann's homepage is located Here and you may purchase "The Forgottem Genocide" for 30$ plus postage if you live outside of the United States Here.
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Friendship Costs Nothing - Hatred Costs Us All |
We hope that you will appreciate our focus upon friendship: We are proud to say that we are friends with Germany - friendship is a simple concept yet one which remains out of reach of the majority of Germans. Should you wish to become friends with Germany please turn to our Friends of Germany page which is located here or by using the menu bar above, and follow the instructions to add your name or organization to the list. We promise that it won't cost you anything now, or in the future: Adding your name or organization to the list is completely free and without any form of obligation whatsoever. You may add or remove your name or organization at any time and without having to cite a reason by emailing our webmaster Here.
On a broad basis, upon mentioning Germany or the German people, one immediately thinks of the two wars which engulfed the world and produced such concepts of the Holocaust, genocide and ethnic cleansing, to name a few.
However, it has also produced a culture of discrimination and hatred which, on a global basis, has survived and to some extent rose from the ashes of Allied destruction to supersede international human rights legislation. Millions of innocent ethnic-Germans from eastern-Europe were forcibly expelled, raped and murdered, either by starvation or imposed living conditions: But wait a minute, aren't the European gypsy population currently getting a raw deal - again against international law. Italy, France and the Czech Republic have all been in the news recently concerning their efforts to expell and/or oppress the Roma (gypsy) populations. Given that the Roma population of war-time Europe was a victim of Nazism, they dont seem to be held in the same catagory as other victims of the Holocaust - no doubt you know who we are talking about.
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Murdered German Children
Now Tell Us The German People Were Not Victims |
The remembrance of the Holocaust is all about the loss of life, yet it seems to have become a Jewish enterprise which neglects other groups who suffered similar, if not the same, persecution - yet oppression continues throughout the world and war-crimes continue to be committed despite their historical precedence of being a victim - some of whom could be suggested as now being the perpetrators.
By international law we are not allowed to question the Holocaust, despite a huge amount of global, American and European human rights (free speech) legislation. We have to accept what the state dictates regardless of its feasability or acuracy. But we do question why the German people and other groups are still being persecuted in an age of human rights?
But are the German people victims? The simple answer is yes they are as much victims as anybody else involved in the last conflict (WWII) or the post-war years. Before you disagree please look at the children in the photo above - these are children, their only crime was to be German.
Not every German was a Nazi: Not every Nazi was a German or indeed Aryan.
Our suggestion to you is to treat every case on an individual basis and not apply the concept of collective guilt - collective guilt persecutes the individual for the crimes of someone else.
We ask that you allow Friends of Germany Coalition, alongside other similarly-minded groups and organizations, to present our case for the German people being victims as much as anybody else. Thereafter we ask you to make an informed and conscious decision. Should you wish to participate in any of the many discussions concerning the German people then please visit our discussion group page where the Friends of Germany Coalition discussion group is listed alongside a variety of other related groups. If you have any specific questions you are invited to contact us here at Friends of Germany Coalition and we will be pleased to assist.
You may contact us Here
The Institute for Research of Expelled Germans (Institut für Vertriebenenforschung) is a non-profit academic research organisation working to document and bring social and historiographic awareness to the largely unknown story of more than 10,000,000 ethnic German civilians who were subjected to ethnicity-based forced deportation, compulsory labour, expulsion, and in some cases starvation and ethnic violence following World War II with varying support and involvement by the governments of the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, and Yugoslavia.
We are a non-political research institute; in no way do we justify the atrocities of the Nazis or undermine the genocides committed against other ethnic groups by the Germans or Soviets during the same timeframe.
We strongly reject any revisionist, Antisemitic, or pro-Nazi tendencies. Rather, we merely aspire to commemorate and document the lost history, culture, and plight of one of the least-known, yet largest refugee communities of the 20th century. Taken from expelledgermans.org home page Here
We invite you to visit the Institute for Research of Expelled Germans Here
German World Alliance - Deutsch Weltallianz is a not for profit organization based and legally defined (Washington D.C) in the U.S.A. It is an organization of over one million
members in thirteen countries on four continents.
German World Alliance supports the German people throughout the world, protecting their human rights and seeking to ensure the contionuous cultural benefits of the German people.
German World Alliance runs two discussion groups through in yahoo groups facility - one in English and one in German: Details are available on our Discussion Group page which is located Here
We warmly encourage you to visit German World Alliance Here
The German Bookshop is a department of The European Bookshop in the heart of London, in Warwick Street, just off Regent Street, a stone's throw from Piccadilly Circus.
Most of what is available on this site is on display there, and it has its own space for browsing and advice.
Please note that we cannot guarantee to keep everything on our website in stock all year round.
© Copyright European Schoolbooks Ltd
Visit the German Bookshop Here
"The year was 1945, the end of nearly six years of war, the second of two great wars which devastated the European and, indeed, the world scene in the first half of the twentieth century. The first war had ended with English cries of 'hang the Kaiser', the second with the Nuremberg Trials and a widespread feeling that Germany had 'done it again'. This, despite many years in the previous century of Anglo-German friendship and even alliance in time of war against a common enemy. Mercifully, it was friendship and mutual understanding which was to conquer in the post-war decades,
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The origins of the Anglo-German Association can be dated almost precisely and attributed to no less a person than one of the greatest of Germans... Goethe, poet and statesman, the bicentenary of whose birth was commemorated in 1949. Professor (late Sir) George Catlin had been invited to give a commemorative address in Heidelberg and on his return to England was present at a PEN Club dinner. The guests of honour were Dr Thomas Mann, the distinguished German author, and Dr Adolf Grimme, Minister of Education for Lower Saxony. The latter was staying with Professor Catlin and to quote the Professor:" After the dinner I felt it would be a pity if there were no follow -up and that, were this so, a major opportunity in restoring good Anglo-German relations would be lost. I wrote to Sir Gilbert Murray OM and to Dr P Gooch OM (Historian and President of the Goethe Society) and found them both of the same view.
From this beginning a number of meetings were held throughout 1949 and 1950, first at Professor Catlin's home and in the house of commons, discussing the possibility of founding the Anglo-German Association. To begin with although there was a great deal of 'notable' support for the idea, the Foreign Office view was that it was a little premature. However the seed had been sown.
The Association actually came into being in the House of Commons on 15th November 1951. On the following day a paragraph appeared in The Times but it was not until 15th December, when the news of the birth was really made public with a letter 'to the Editor' and signed by a very distinguished list of signatories."
From: 'The Anglo-German Association: The First Forty Years 1951-1991', By Muriel Hammond. © British-German Association
We encourage you to visit the British-German Association Here
In 2007 the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut (DAI) in Tübingen (Germany) launched Rent an American. The program matches American students enrolled in study-abroad programs in Germany with local classrooms focusing on the United States in their curricula.
The program has proven so popular with students and teachers alike that by now hundreds of American students from all over Germany’s southwest have visited classrooms to talk about topics ranging from climate change to baseball and "The Simpsons".
The Rent an American concept is now coming to the United States. The Goethe-Institut San Francisco, in close collaboration with the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, invites college students from Germany and teachers in the U.S. to make German for Hire just as successful as its German counterpart. Following a pilot phase in Northern California, German for Hire will be expanded to other regions.
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Artist, Hans Weiss
A Realistic Impressionistic International Artist in Oil, Watercolour, Pen and Ink and Pencil
www.hansweissgallery.com |
Hans Weiss has been drawing and painting all of his life. As a young boy living in a German village, Malthern, (Zips), in Slovakia, he showed a great talent in art. At the age of thirteen he was granted a commission for the first time. Because of the Second World War, all of his early paintings and drawings were lost, due to the Communist occupation.
He and his family were sent to live in Germany. Hans started to paint again, using brushes hade from his mother’s hair.
At the age of eighteen, Hans came to the United States where he attended various Art schools in Connecticut, and the Art Students League in New York.
Many of his paintings are a reflection of his travel experiences, such as Alaska, Europe, Egypt, India, Mexico, many other interesting places and of his early childhood.
His favourite subjects are his small village in Slovakia, The Native Americans, still life, land & seascapes.
Hans has had many exhibitions in North America and Europe, and has won many prizes for his artwork. His work can be found in museums, books and many State and Federal buildings and in many private collections.
We encourage you to visit the Hans Weiss Gallery Here
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We encourage you to visit our shopping Mall here on Friends of Germany Coalition. We strive to offer a full and multi-language, location and currency shopping experience.
As well as Amazon UK, USA & Germany you will find a variety of other sellers which we hope will provide you with a truly choice-based and universal shopping experience.
The sellers available on these pages will be subject to change without notice. However, if a seller is removed from these pages, as long as there has been no problems, we will assist in your continued relationship. It must be noted that this is a service freely offered to our readers and as such we can not be held responsible for any errors, omissions or loss incured.
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