Lester Golden
1 min readAug 20, 2024

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The ethnic Germans of the Sudetenland were also expelled in a massive terror campaign after Germany surrendered. Hitler had said that Lebensraum and Generalplan Ost's unrealized exterminations meant "simplifying" Eastern Europe's bouillabaise of border-crossing ethnic composition. The Germans who supported or acquiesced to Nazi rule that "simplified" ethnic boundaries got what they wished for, just not the version they'd imagined. That's why Riga is a German city hit by a metaphorical neutron bomb. Most of the paintaings in Riga's Guildhall are of Baltic German barons, which shows that German property, but not the demography, is still

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Your last point just proves that Jewish behavior that even slightly resembles that of other peoples' statebuilding garners disproportionate attention (the "no Jews = no news"). It's the usual double standards anti-semitism whose purpose is to fabricate moral excuses for excluding Jews only from the sovereignty club. It's the 21st century version of the no Jews and dogs admitted signs that used to adorn American hotels until the 1960s. Watch the Gregory Peck movie Gentlemen's Agreement on youtube to get a glimpse of that world that I was born into in 1955 in case you're naive enough to think that the Shoah made anti-semitism too indecorous to practice post-WWII.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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