Fernsehdiskussion: Verlorene deutsche Ostgebiete, verlorene Heimat? (Panorama-Beitrag 1962)

#UpperSilesia #Pomerania #people #Oder #DeGaulle #Neisse #Nixon #Sudetenland #Hitler #WorldWar #Saar #EastPrussia #Homeland #Breslau #rightofresidence #GermanQuestion #1945 Interesting discussion on the topic of expellees - Panorama report from January 28, 1962 Expellees: Investigation into the situation and mood of the regional associations; studio discussion on the topic of expellees 0:01 What became of the expellees? 0:13 Rally of the expellee association "German Youth of the East" 1:25 Statistical inventory in 1962 2:52 Survey of political officials. Right of residence and German Eastern Territories: Hans Krüger (Chairman of the Federation of Expellees), Walter Stain (Minister of Labor in Bavaria), Dr. Walter Becher (leader of the parliamentary group of the All-German Party in Bavaria), Wilhelm Hermann Karl Hoffmann (Pomeranian Association), Oskar Böse (Chairman of "German Youth of the East") 3:25 Where does one have the right to one's homeland? 4:20 What possibilities do you see for realizing the right to one's homeland? 5:08 Can the right to one's homeland be realized under communist conditions? 5:45 Must the old property relations be restored? 6:10 Have the Poles and Czechs who were born there in the meantime also acquired a right to one's homeland? 6:48 Can the right to one's homeland be realized and yet the Oder-Neisse line be recognized? 7:05 Walter Stain: "Our starting point must, of course, be the status of 1945!" 7:09 Wilhelm Hermann Karl Hoffmann: "Our demand is: Pomerania must be German territory again!" 7:15 Do you believe the Poles and Czechs are capable of bringing the former German territories back to full prosperity? 8:45 Hoffmann: "The right to one's homeland is [...] inheritable!" 9:01 Hans Krüger: "So far, we have not felt the slightest understanding for our cause from either the Czech or Polish sides!" 10:10 Statistical inventory: How many have been expelled? 10:52 Mr. President Hans Krüger, how large is your association in terms of membership? 11:45 Heinrich von Brentano (CDU) on the political power of the expellees 13:00 Survey of the "German Youth of the East" from the Sudetenland 13:40 What would you call your homeland? 14:02 Would you go back? 14:14 Would you go together with Czechs or Poles? 14:40 Do you believe that the Poles and Czechs are capable of rebuilding the areas formerly settled by Germans? 15:57 How do you assess the work of the "German Youth of the East"? 18:03 Knowledge questions for the young people: What is Gumbinnen? Do you know the highest mountain in the Siebengebirge (Seven Hills)? 24:15 Statistical inventory 1955 25:15 Would you start over again in your old homeland? 29:00 Panel discussion: Carl Wiggert (Federal Executive Board of the Pomeranian Association) VERSUS Sven Hasselblatt (Correspondent for the Association of German Broadcasting Corporations in Warsaw). Moderated by: Gert von Paczensky 29:49 What do you think of this film report? 31:50 Does being born in a particular place play a role [in the right to one's homeland]? 32:55 Wiggert: "[...] that the German Reich still legally exists, also generally recognized under international law, within its 1937 borders." 33:30 Wiggert: "And these Poles who now live there [in the former German eastern territories] came to be there through an unjust act [...]!" 34:35 Wiggert: "That violence is renounced and that an expulsion [of the Poles] is out of the question, so that we would simply be faced with the fact that we would then have to live there with the Poles." 36:20 What else would you object to? 37:21 Hasselblatt: "How do you envision a return [of the Germans] without violence?" 38:50 "What does 'recovery' mean specifically?" 39:55 Wiggert: "But we believe that political constellations could certainly arise that would make it possible to realize these claims [of returning to the eastern territories]. And as long as such a possibility exists at all, we also have an obligation to stand up for our German eastern territories." 40:15 Wiggert: "It's not just a matter for the expellees, [...] but we actually see ourselves as the representatives of the entire German people and believe that, if the others [...] are too quiet, there must be an authority that keeps these ideas alive and that repeatedly reminds the people in the Federal Republic of Germany that it is a task for all of Germany to get these German eastern territories back, that they are an integral part of Germany!" 42:17 Wiggert: "Yes, perhaps the word 'recapture' is misplaced and not at all correct, because if one bases it on the principle that this Germany legally continues to exist within the borders of 1937, then it is actually not a 'recapture' at all, but rather a restoration of the old legal status."