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OK, but there is an article on him already=20
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From: Molobo Molobo <molobus@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WPM] Theodore Oberlander article complete
To: "Wikipedia statistics" <folks@wikipedometer.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 8:09 PM


Thank you, be my guest to post it.


2009/8/27 piotr micula <basiaipiotr@yahoo.com>






I can do it, let me know. Great work Molobo!
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Looks great ! Who is going to post it ?=20
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[[Image:Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nder.gif|thumb]]
'''Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nder''' ([[May 1]], [[1905]] &ndash; [[May 4]], [[199=
8]]) was a [[Ostforschung|Ostforschung scientist]], [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] o=
fficer, and [[Germany|German]] [[politician]].
=C2=A0
>From 1953 to 1960 he was a Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Vic=
tims of War for the [[Federal Republic of Germany]]. He is considered by so=
me historians to be among the academics who laid the intellectual foundatio=
n for [[Final Solution]]<ref name=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit of German memory=
: history, television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio =
University Press; 2006 page 222-224 </ref>.=20
=C2=A0=20
=3D=3D Biography =3D=3D=20
=3D=3DMembership in Nazi party and Ostforschung studies=3D=3D=20
=C2=A0=20
Oberl=C3=A4nder was born in [[Meiningen]], [[Saxe-Meiningen]], part of the =
[[German Empire]] in 1905. At the ege of eighteen he participated in [[Adol=
f Hitler]]'s [[Beer Hall Putsch]] in [[Munich]], [[Bavaria]], in 1923 durin=
g the existance of [[Weimar Republic]]. After joining Nazis in 1933 he beca=
me a senior SA commander and leader of NSDAP district<ref name=3D"Schwarz">=
"Konrad Adenauer: A German Politician and Statesman in a Period of War, Rev=
olution and Reconstruction : The Statesman : 1952-1967", Hans Peter-Schwarz=
 pages 91, 432, Berghahn Books 1997 </ref>. Oberl=C3=A4nder obtained a doct=
orate in [[Agricultural Science]]s and wrote several books about the need f=
or German intervention in the agricultural systems of [[Second Polish Repub=
lic|Poland]] and the [[Soviet Union]], which he considered "un-economic".=
=20
=C2=A0=20
Like other [[Ostforschung]] researchers; Meinhold, [[Peter-Heinz Seraphim]]=
, Oberl=C3=A4nder's use the forms of economic utilitarinism was to cover up=
 stereotypes about Jews and Poles<ref name=3D"Ethics"/>. Those views were b=
eing rationalised with terms of health and =E2=80=9Esecurity threats=E2=80=
=9D This supposed economic science was in fact, in the words of historian M=
ichael Burleigh =E2=80=9Ea denatured hybrid throughoutly saturated by Nazi =
race ideology=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"Ethics">"Ethics and extermination-Reflec=
tions on Nazi Genocide", Michael Burleigh page 177, Cambridge University Pr=
ess 1997</ref>=20
=C2=A0=20
Oberl=C3=A4nder became a [[Nazi Party|National Socialist]] in 1933. He beca=
me a professor at the [[University of Greifswald]], where he took the foref=
ront in making the university and the [[Province of Pomerania]] "[[judenfre=
i]]" (free of Jews).. On [[August 4]], [[1935]], he became an assistant to =
[[Gauleiter]] [[Erich Koch]], under whose authority he started to gather in=
formation about non-German minorities in [[East Prussia]]. A significant ro=
le in this process was played by the "Bund Deutscher Osten" (BDO - "League =
for a German East"), which advocated radical [[Germanization]] of the easte=
rn provinces and the elimination of the [[Polish language]] in [[Masuria]].=
 The language's traditional usage in the [[Protestantism|Protestant]] churc=
hes of the [[Masurians]] was outlawed in November 1939, with the [[Lutheran=
ism|Lutheran]] church leadership acquiescing in December.=20
=C2=A0=20
In March 1935 he attended a meeting of professors, scholars and [[NSDAP]] t=
raining specialists dedicated to study of the =E2=80=9EEast=E2=80=9D where =
he dedicated his esseys at what he described as =E2=80=9Eborder struggle=E2=
=80=9D with Poland<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>.=20
The meeting was divided into two groups:=E2=80=9Dbase=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=
=9Efront=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>. The =E2=80=9Ebase=E2=80=9D incl=
uded 58 professors, lecturers and research assistants, the =E2=80=9Efront=
=E2=80=9D was made up of political functionaries, seven training specialist=
s of the NSDAP, [[Hitler Youth]], three heads of Reichsarbeitsdiensts(force=
d labour service), two teachers and two civil servants<ref name=3D"GermanSc=
h"/>. It was Oberl=C3=A4nder who intruduced the 72 patricipants on the firs=
t day and set for them the task to study =E2=80=9Eborder struggle=E2=80=9D =
against Poland<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>..=20
Attacking Poland, he advocated battle against [[Polish minority in Nazi Ger=
many]], and demanded=20
that social relationships between Germans and Polish immigrants be prohibit=
ed<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>.=20
=C2=A0=20
Oberl=C3=A4nder implied that Poland was not capable of sociopolitical and a=
grarian reforms due that fact that it was not =E2=80=9Eracially homogenous=
=E2=80=9D nation state<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>. The population of Polish c=
ities has been named by him as =E2=80=9Etransplanted rubes=E2=80=9D<ref nam=
e=3D"GermanSch"/>.=20
=C2=A0=20
Sharing Hitler's view Oberl=C3=A4nder believed that the treaties regarding =
the [[East]], like the [[German=E2=80=93Polish Non-Aggression Pact]], were =
only conditional, and Ostforschung studies should go on as usual =E2=80=9Es=
o that after ten years we have everything ready that we could need in any g=
iven circumstances=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"Eastwards">"Germany turns eastwards=
: a study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich", Michael Burleigh Cambridge U=
niversity Press, 1988, pages 76 ,144-146, 222, 317-318 </ref>. Continuing h=
is studies on rural population of Poland he noted in his works that =E2=80=
=9EPoland has eight million inhabitants too many=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"Eastw=
ards"/>.=20
=C2=A0=20
Reflecting on the temporary lack of possibility of open [[war]] in the East=
 ,Oberl=C3=A4nder wrote the following:=20
=C2=A0=20
''The struggle for ethnicity is nothing other then the continuation of war =
by other means under the cover of peace. Not a fight with gas, granades, an=
d machine-guns, but a fight about homes, farms, schools and the soulrs of c=
hildren, a struggle whose end, unlike in war, is not forseeable as long as =
the insane principle of the nationalism of the state dominates the Eastern =
region, a struggle which goes on with one aim:extermination!'' <ref name=3D=
"Eastwards"/>=20
=C2=A0=20
Other features of Oberl=C3=A4nder's thoughts concentrated on depicting Jews=
 as carriers of [[communism]], and the benefits of peasant [[antisemitism]]=
 to German goals in Central and Eastern Europe<ref name=3D"Eastwards"/>.=20
His preperatory work in BDO involved monitioring over 1,200,000 Poles livin=
g in Germany, with card-name index of untrustworthy Poles and Germans livin=
g in the borderlands, and proposals to Germanise Polish place, street, and =
family names<ref name=3D"Eastwards"/>.=20
In the summer of [[1937]] Oberl=C3=A4nder formulated a =E2=80=9Edivide and =
conquer=E2=80=9D strategy for Poland<ref name=3D"GermanSch">German scholars=
 and ethnic cleansing 1919-1945" Ingo Haar, Michael Fahlbusch Berghahn Book=
s 2006 page 10, 12 </ref>.=20
Within Poland, ethnic groups were to be directed into fighting with each ot=
her, in order to prepare ground for German rule<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>. T=
he Poles were to be steered away from opposing Germans and guided into conf=
rontation with [[Russians]] and [[Jews]]<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>. Oberl=C3=
=A4nder additionally called for elimination of =E2=80=9Eassimiliated Jewry=
=E2=80=9D which in his view carried =E2=80=9Ecommunist ideas=E2=80=9D<ref n=
ame=3D"GermanSch"/>. Polish peasants were to be =E2=80=9Etaught=E2=80=9D th=
at they benefit from German =E2=80=9Elaw=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>.=
=20
=C2=A0=20
In order to win over Poles for the side of German [[hegemony]] in [[Europe]=
], Oberl=C3=A4nder proposed that they share in theft of Jewish property<ref=
 name=3D"GermanSch"/>. Around 3,5 million Polish Jews and 1,5 million peopl=
e who were considered =E2=80=9Eassimilated Jews=E2=80=9D were to be deprive=
d of all of their rights<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>.=20
=C2=A0=20
By 1937 Oberl=C3=A4nder however started to lose influence in [[Nazi party]]=
, as his views on the treatment of Polish population(but not Jewish questio=
n) were losing to more hardline positions<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/> and pers=
onal conflict with [[Erich Koch]]=20
<ref name=3D"Valdis">"Himmler's Auxiliaries: The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle=
 and the German National Minorities of Europe, 1933-1945"Valdis O. Lumens p=
age 63</ref>. As a result he lost his position in East Prussia and within B=
DO by 1938<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>. From 1.4.1938 he worked as Professor o=
f History at [[University of Greifswald]]<ref name=3D"Eastwards"/>=20
=C2=A0=20
In 1939 Oberl=C3=A4nder moved to work in [[Abwehrstelle Breslau]]; one of t=
he main centers of [[sabotage]] and [[diversion]] organised by Nazis which =
conducted operations against Poland. At the same time his work concerned is=
sues connected to [[Ukraine]] and [[Sudetes]] region and he had contacts wi=
th [[Osteuropa Institut]] located in Breslau([[Wroc=C5=82aw]])<ref name=3D"=
Instytut">"Przeglad Zachodni", volume 16 Instytut Zachodni 1960 page 115</r=
ef>=20
=C2=A0=20
=3D=3DSecond World War=3D=3D=20
=C2=A0=20
In 1940 he endorsed [[ethnic cleansing]] of Polish population[http://gplano=
st.x-berg.de/sgplanost.html], and in 1941 wrote in the German magazine Deut=
sche Monatshefte: =E2=80=9EWe have the best soldier in the world who re-con=
quered German soil in the East. There is no bigger responsibility than educ=
ating this colonist to be the best on earth and to secure the living space =
for all times to come=E2=80=9D Oberl=C3=A4nder's words echoed views of [[He=
inrich Himmler]], who envisioned settling former soldiers, armed with weapo=
ns and plows in the East, not just pure peasants=20
<ref name=3D"Ramos">=E2=80=9DSCHWERTE MUSS DER PFLUG FOLGEN: =C5=B0ber-peas=
ents and National Socialists Settlements in the Occupied Eastern Territorie=
s during World War Two=E2=80=9D=20
Simone C. De Santiago Ramos, M.S. Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Master =
of Arts=20
University of Texas page 68</ref>=20
=C2=A0=20
During 1940 he moved to [[University of Prague]], after which he became act=
ive in [[Ukraine]], where he was used by Nazi Germany's military as expert =
on =E2=80=9Eethnic psychology=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"Eastwards"/>.=20
=C2=A0=20
When Hitler [[Operation Barbarossa|invaded the Soviet Union]] in 1941 Oberl=
=C3=A4nder became an adv ising officer of the [[Nachtigall Battalion]] (a U=
krainian battalion of [[Wehrmacht]]) which occupied [[Lviv]] in [[Ukraine]]=
; his position was similar to that of Soviet [[political commissar]]s. The =
patricipation of the Battalion in [[The Lviv Civilian Massacre of 1941]] ha=
s since been subject to controversy, and Oberl=C3=A4nder himself has been a=
ccused after the war in patricipating in the events.=20
In January 1942 he sent a report on situation in Ukraine in which he wrote =
that success lay in =E2=80=9Ewinning over the masses and pitilessly extermi=
nating partisants as deleterious to the people=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"Eastwar=
ds"/>.=20
=C2=A0=20
He later became the leader of the mixed German and Caucasian [[Sonderverban=
d Bergmann]], which was active in anti-[[Partisan (military)|partisan]] war=
fare. Both army groups were later claimed to have participated in [[war cri=
me]]s. Oberl=C3=A4nder's involvement in [[Eastern front]] would led to the =
Oberl=C3=A4nder case at the end of the 1950s<ref name=3D"Schwarz"/>.=20
=C2=A0=20
After leaving the Bergmann group in 1943 due to dismissal from [[Wehrmacht]=
] due to political conflict with his superiors he returned to Prague. In 19=
44 he became part of the staff of the=20
Nazi controlled puppet collaborationist organisation the [[Andrey Vlasov]]'=
s [[Russian Liberation Army]]<ref name=3D"Schwarz"/>. He was taken prisoner=
 by the [[United States Army]] in 1945.=20
=C2=A0=20
=3D=3DPolitical career after Second World War=3D=3D=20
=C2=A0=20
During his imprisonment U.S military secret service appreciated Oberl=C3=A4=
nder's expertise in eastern European topics, and he went through the [[dena=
zification]] process with ease=20
<ref name=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit of German memory: history, television, a=
nd politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 p=
age 222-224 </ref>.=20
=C2=A0=20
After the war Oberl=C3=A4nder claimed that he criticised Nazi policies and =
he only wanted a German [[hegemony]] over [[Slavic peoples]] in which they =
would have =E2=80=9Esome respect=E2=80=9D and were =E2=80=9Etreated reasona=
bly humanly=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"Schwarz"/>.=20
=C2=A0=20
Oberl=C3=A4nder again became active in German politics, first in the libera=
l [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]], then in the [[=
All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights|Bloc of Refugees=
 and Expellees]] (GB/BHE)(despite the himself was not expelled), where he w=
ould become a major leader alongside [[ Waldemar Kraft]] also a former Nazi=
, interned for two years for his wartime activities in occupied Poland<ref =
name=3D"Burdens">"Shouldering the Burdens of Defeat: West Germany and the R=
econstruction of Social Justice=E2=80=9D Michael L. Hughes, The University =
of North Carolina Press 1999</ref>. Many threads connected BHE to the Nazis=
, as it openly tried to win over former Nazis angry at denazification, call=
ing their crimes to be only =E2=80=9Euncritical belief in Germany's future=
=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"Burdens"/>. The party classified those Nazis on pair =
with war-damaged as fellow victims<ref name=3D"Burdens"/>. The fact that th=
e party selected as
 its leaders two former Nazis, who took part in expulsion and expropation o=
f non-Germans severely undermined German complaints about their situation<r=
ef name=3D"World''>=E2=80=9DA World at Arms: A Global History of World War =
II=E2=80=9D Gerhard L. Weinberg Cambridge University Press 1995 page 792</r=
ef>.=20
=C2=A0=20
Oberl=C3=A4nder joined the [[Konrad Adenauer|Adenauer]] government of [[Wes=
t Germany]] in 1953 as Minister for Refugees and Expelles<ref name=3D"Pursu=
it''>"In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and politics after =
Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 </ref>=
.=20
His appointment prompted negative press coverage and made details of his Na=
zi past known<ref name=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit of German memory: history, =
television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University =
Press; 2006 page 222-224 </ref>. But despite the fact that he nominated sev=
eral former Nazis as co-workers, the criticism soon died down<ref name=3D"P=
ursuit''>"In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and politics af=
ter Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 </=
ref>. Adenauer in particular was keen on getting BHE on board, as with its =
support he controlled two-thirds majority in the parliament<ref name=3D"Pur=
suit''>"In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and politics afte=
r Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 </re=
f>.Adenauer knew very well that Oberl=C3=A4nder was a Nationalist Socialist=
s and admitted he has a =E2=80=9Every brown past=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"Schwa=
rz"/>=20
=C2=A0=20
When Oberl=C3=A4nder tried to visit his former Nazi co-workes in 1956 who s=
till served time in Landsberg prison, the foreign minister of Germany vetoe=
d the trip, fearing for international consequences, neverthless despite hin=
derances Oberl=C3=A4nder still tried to support far right groups.<ref name=
=3D"Legacies">"Legacies of Dachau: the uses and abuses of a concentration c=
amp 1933-2001=E2=80=9D=E2=80=9E Harold Marcuse Cambridge University Press 2=
001 page 118</ref>=20
=C2=A0=20
Oberl=C3=A4nder left the GB/BHE for the centre [[Christian Democratic Union=
 (Germany)|Christian Democratic Union]] in 1956 when it broke with Adenauer=
. Adenauer himself continued to support him, as a matter of principle<ref n=
ame=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and pol=
itics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 22=
2-224 </ref>.=20
=C2=A0=20
In the fall of 1959 the [[Eastern Bloc]] unleashed a coordinated campaign a=
gainst existance of Nazi's in West German government, which included Oberl=
=C3=A4nder. He was accused of participating in Lviv Massacre<ref name=3D"Pu=
rsuit''>"In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and politics aft=
er Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 </r=
ef>. Previously he was able to remain in politics despite the accusations, =
but the situation this time became more unfavourable,and some of his fellow=
 CDU collegues pushed for him to resign for the good of government and coun=
try <ref name=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit of German memory: history, televisio=
n, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 20=
06 page 222-224 </ref>.=20
While many in West Germany did not believe the accusations of war crimes, i=
t was clear that Oberl=C3=A4nder had been an enthusiastic Nazi<ref name=3D"=
Pursuit''>"In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and politics a=
fter Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 <=
/ref>, and due to fact that West German community had reinvented its immage=
 as community of innocent bystanders during Second World War, Oberl=C3=A4nd=
er past was considered liability<ref name=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit of Germa=
n memory: history, television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kanstein=
er Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 </ref>.=20
=C2=A0=20
A court in the [[German Democratic Republic]] (East Germany) in 1960 senten=
ced Oberl=C3=A4nder, in absentia, to life imprisonment for his involvement =
in the Lviv massacre in 1941.=20
=C2=A0=20
In January 1960 during discussion with 3,000 students of [[University of Co=
logne]] Adenauer was faced with protests against continued presence of Ober=
l=C3=A4nder in German government<ref name=3D"Schwarz"/>. In responce Adenau=
er stated that Oberl=C3=A4nder was a Nazi but =E2=80=9Enever did anything d=
ishonourable=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"Schwarz"/>. Despite Adenauer's protection=
 however Oberl=C3=A4nder became a heavy burder for the German government in=
 May [[1960]]<ref name=3D"Schwarz"/> and finally removed from government, b=
ut not because of his past, but due to fact that he politically represented=
 no value that was worth trouble<<ref name=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit of Germ=
an memory: history, television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kanstei=
ner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 </ref>.=20
=C2=A0=20
Oberl=C3=A4nder neverthless continued efforts to influence German public, a=
nd in 1962 he published an article in [[Der Stahlhelm]], an organ of former=
 [[Frontsoldaten]] <ref name=3D"Eastwards"/>. In it he repeated claims abou=
t an =E2=80=9Erevolutionary war=E2=80=9D in which he accused the =E2=80=9Ed=
ictatorship in the East=E2=80=9D of conducting an offensive revolution agai=
nst the [[West]], in which there was =E2=80=9Eno beginning=E2=80=9D, and no=
 movement of troops, but which was led by =E2=80=9Einflitration and publici=
sm=E2=80=9D as well as =E2=80=9Eespionage=E2=80=9D <ref name=3D"Eastwards"/=
>. He denouced any possibility of =E2=80=9Ecoexistance=E2=80=9D between Eas=
t and West and blamed such ideas on =E2=80=9Erootless intelligentsia=E2=80=
=9D <ref name=3D"Eastwards"/>, =E2=80=9Eto appease the enemy=E2=80=9D Oberl=
aner wrote was to =E2=80=9Efurther world revolution=E2=80=9D <ref name=3D"E=
astwards"/>. As historian [[Michael Burleigh]] notes, the idea that the =E2=
=80=9Eunfree=E2=80=9D perhaps didn't wanted to be =E2=80=9Eliberated=E2=80=
=9D by the likes of Oberl=C3=A4nder and his =E2=80=9EBund der
 Frontsoldaten=E2=80=9D(who passed that way twenty years ago)-did not occur=
 to him <ref name=3D"Eastwards"/>.=20
=C2=A0=20
In 1986, Oberl=C3=A4nder received [[Bavarian Order of Merit]] from the stat=
e of [[Bavaria]]<ref name=3D"Bav''>=E2=80=9DProblems of Political Reeducati=
on in West Germany, 1945-1960=E2=80=9D Michael H. Kater Simon Wiesenthal Ce=
nter Annual Volume 4 </ref>.=20
=C2=A0=20
=C2=A0=20
[[File:Oberlander1.jpg|150px|left|thumb|[[KGB]] document on action against =
Oberl=C3=A4nder and Ukrainian [[Nachtigall]] ([[1959]]).]]=20
His conviction was squashed by a new German court in 1993, which contended =
that the Soviet evidence had been fabricated by the [[KGB]]{{Verify source|=
date=3DMarch 2009}}{{Fact|date=3DMarch 2009}}<!-- de: only says "overturned=
 on formal grounds", gives scholarly source -->. At the end of his life, Ob=
erl=C3=A4nder became explicitly involved in [[far right]] and [[anti-immigr=
ation]] politics.=20
=C2=A0=20
A new case was opened against Oberl=C3=A4nder in 1996 in which he was charg=
ed with the unlawful killing of a civilian in [[Kislovodsk]] in 1942 during=
 his Bergmann leadership<ref>Der Spiegel=20
18 / 1996 ''Kriegsverbrehen. Die M=C3=BChlen mahlen langsam''</ref>. This t=
ime it involved an interrogation of female teacher, who was whipped and aft=
er refusing to talk about suspected partisant activity shot in the breast b=
y Oberl=C3=A4nder, who left her to die. Oberl=C3=A4nder called those allega=
tions =E2=80=9ESoviet lies=E2=80=9D.=20
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Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nder died in [[Bonn]] in 1998.=20
=C2=A0=20
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=3D=3DIn fiction=3D=3D=20
*Professor Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nder appears in [[Jonathan Littell]]'s [[docu=
drama]] "[[Les Bienveillantes]]".=20
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* {{PND|118735829}} {{de icon}}=20
* [http://zeus.zeit.de/text/2001/26/200126_a-lemberg.xml Article about the =
events in Lviv/Lemberg] {{de icon}}=20
* [http://www.ursulahomann.de/JudenInMecklenburgVorpommern/kap005.html Fate=
 of the Jews in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Oberl=C3=A4nder's involvement] {=
{de icon}}=20
* [http://people.freenet.de/Transsylvania/Oberlaender.html Extracts from ''=
 "Grenzlandpolitik" und Ostforschung an der Peripherie des Reiches. Das ost=
preussische Masuren 1919-1945'' by Andreas Kossert] {{de icon}}=20
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2009/8/26 Molobo Molobo <molobus@gmail.com>

I completed Oberlander article regarding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Oberl%C3%A4nder

The article is attached in doc format. It will be copied to the next email =
for those of you who don't use mail in the discussion group. You can paste =
and copy it, although if you want to check spelling and references formatin=
g be my guest. In one case I couldn't get the reference to work properly at=
 all and had to manually copy it several times(I don't know why :/ )




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<table cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" border=3D"0" ><tr><td valign=3D"=
top" style=3D"font: inherit;"><DIV>OK, but there is an article on him alrea=
dy </DIV>
<DIV>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Oberl%C3%A4nder . </DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>What am I supposed to do now? Replace it all with what you wrote?</DIV=
>
<DIV>Tymek<BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 8/26/09, Molobo Molobo <I>&lt;molobus@gmai=
l.com&gt;</I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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Subject: Re: [WPM] Theodore Oberlander article complete<BR>To: "Wikipedia s=
tatistics" &lt;folks@wikipedometer.net&gt;<BR>Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2=
009, 8:09 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=3Dyiv114297740>Thank you, be my guest to post it.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=3Dgmail_quote>2009/8/27 piotr micula <SPAN dir=3Dltr>&lt;<A href=
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<DIV>I can do it, let me know. Great work Molobo!</DIV>
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atistics" &lt;<A href=3D"http://us.mc328.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=3Dfol=
ks@wikipedometer.net" target=3D_blank rel=3Dnofollow ymailto=3D"mailto:folk=
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gust 26, 2009, 12:26 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DDE>[[Image:Theodor Oberl=C3=A4=
nder.gif|thumb]]</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>'''Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nd=
er''' ([[May 1]], [[1905]] &amp;ndash; [[May 4]], [[1998]]) was a [[Ostfors=
chung|Ostforschung scientist]], [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] officer, and [[German=
y|German]] [[politician]].</SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN></DIV></TD>=
</TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>From 1953 to 1960 he was=
 a Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War for the [[Fe=
deral Republic of Germany]]. He is considered by some historians to be amon=
g the academics who laid the intellectual foundation for [[Final Solution]]=
&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pursuit of German memory: history, televis=
ion, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; =
2006 page 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>=3D=3D Biography =3D=3D<=
/SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>=3D=3DMembership in Nazi=
 party and Ostforschung studies=3D=3D</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Oberl=C3=A4nder was born=
 in [[Meiningen]], [[Saxe-Meiningen]], part of the [[German Empire]] in 190=
5. At the ege of eighteen he participated in [[Adolf Hitler]]'s [[Beer Hall=
 Putsch]] in [[Munich]], [[Bavaria]], in 1923 during the existance of [[Wei=
mar Republic]]. After joining Nazis in 1933 he became a senior SA commander=
 and leader of NSDAP district&lt;ref name=3D"Schwarz"&gt;"Konrad Adenauer: =
A German Politician and Statesman in a Period of War, Revolution and Recons=
truction : The Statesman : 1952-1967", Hans Peter-Schwarz pages 91, 432, Be=
rghahn Books 1997 &lt;/ref&gt;. Oberl=C3=A4nder obtained a doctorate in [[A=
gricultural Science]]s and wrote several books about the need for German in=
tervention in the agricultural systems of [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]]=
 and the [[Soviet Union]], which he considered "un-economic". </SPAN></DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Like other [[Ostforschun=
g]] researchers; Meinhold, [[Peter-Heinz Seraphim]], Oberl=C3=A4nder's use =
the forms of economic utilitarinism was to cover up stereotypes about Jews =
and Poles&lt;ref name=3D"Ethics"/&gt;. Those views were being rationalised =
with terms of health and =E2=80=9Esecurity threats=E2=80=9D This supposed e=
conomic science was in fact, in the words of historian Michael Burleigh =E2=
=80=9Ea denatured hybrid throughoutly saturated by Nazi race ideology=E2=80=
=9D&lt;ref name=3D"Ethics"&gt;"Ethics and extermination-Reflections on Nazi=
 Genocide", Michael Burleigh page 177, Cambridge University Press 1997&lt;/=
ref&gt;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Oberl=C3=A4nder became a=
 [[Nazi Party|National Socialist]] in 1933. He became a professor at the [[=
University of Greifswald]], where he took the forefront in making the unive=
rsity and the [[Province of Pomerania]] "[[judenfrei]]" (free of Jews).. On=
 [[August 4]], [[1935]], he became an assistant to [[Gauleiter]] [[Erich Ko=
ch]], under whose authority he started to gather information about non-Germ=
an minorities in [[East Prussia]]. A significant role in this process was p=
layed by the "Bund Deutscher Osten" (BDO - "League for a German East"), whi=
ch advocated radical [[Germanization]] of the eastern provinces and the eli=
mination of the [[Polish language]] in [[Masuria]]. The language's traditio=
nal usage in the [[Protestantism|Protestant]] churches of the [[Masurians]]=
 was outlawed in November 1939, with the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] church le=
adership acquiescing in December.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>In March 1935 he attende=
d a meeting of professors, scholars and [[NSDAP]] training specialists dedi=
cated to study of the =E2=80=9EEast=E2=80=9D where he dedicated his esseys =
at what he described as =E2=80=9Eborder struggle=E2=80=9D with Poland&lt;re=
f name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>The meeting was divided =
into two groups:=E2=80=9Dbase=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Efront=E2=80=9D&lt;ref n=
ame=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. The =E2=80=9Ebase=E2=80=9D included 58 professors, =
lecturers and research assistants, the =E2=80=9Efront=E2=80=9D was made up =
of political functionaries, seven training specialists of the NSDAP, [[Hitl=
er Youth]], three heads of Reichsarbeitsdiensts(forced labour service), two=
 teachers and two civil servants&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. It was Obe=
rl=C3=A4nder who intruduced the 72 patricipants on the first day and set fo=
r them the task to study =E2=80=9Eborder struggle=E2=80=9D against Poland&l=
t;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;..</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Attacking Poland, he adv=
ocated battle against [[Polish minority in Nazi Germany]], and demanded </S=
PAN></DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>that social relationship=
s between Germans and Polish immigrants be prohibited&lt;ref name=3D"German=
Sch"/&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Oberl=C3=A4nder implied =
that Poland was not capable of sociopolitical and agrarian reforms due that=
 fact that it was not =E2=80=9Eracially homogenous=E2=80=9D nation state&lt=
;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. The population of Polish cities has been name=
d by him as =E2=80=9Etransplanted rubes=E2=80=9D&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/=
&gt;. </SPAN></DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Sharing Hitler's view Ob=
erl=C3=A4nder believed that the treaties regarding the [[East]], like the [=
[German=E2=80=93Polish Non-Aggression Pact]], were only conditional, and Os=
tforschung studies should go on as usual =E2=80=9Eso that after ten years w=
e have everything ready that we could need in any given circumstances=E2=80=
=9D&lt;ref name=3D"Eastwards"&gt;"Germany turns eastwards: a study of Ostfo=
rschung in the Third Reich", Michael Burleigh Cambridge University Press, 1=
988, pages 76 ,144-146, 222, 317-318 &lt;/ref&gt;. Continuing his studies o=
n rural population of Poland he noted in his works that =E2=80=9EPoland has=
 eight million inhabitants too many=E2=80=9D&lt;ref name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;=
.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Reflecting on the tempor=
ary lack of possibility of open [[war]] in the East ,Oberl=C3=A4nder wrote =
the following:</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>''The struggle for ethni=
city is nothing other then the continuation of war by other means under the=
 cover of peace. Not a fight with gas, granades, and machine-guns, but a fi=
ght about homes, farms, schools and the soulrs of children, a struggle whos=
e end, unlike in war, is not forseeable as long as the insane principle of =
the nationalism of the state dominates the Eastern region, a struggle which=
 goes on with one aim:extermination!'' &lt;ref name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;</SPA=
N> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Other features of Oberl=
=C3=A4nder's thoughts concentrated on depicting Jews as carriers of [[commu=
nism]], and the benefits of peasant [[antisemitism]] to German goals in Cen=
tral and Eastern Europe&lt;ref name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>His preperatory work in =
BDO involved monitioring over 1,200,000 Poles living in Germany, with card-=
name index of untrustworthy Poles and Germans living in the borderlands, an=
d proposals to Germanise Polish place, street, and family names&lt;ref name=
=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>In the summer of [[1937]=
] Oberl=C3=A4nder formulated a =E2=80=9Edivide and conquer=E2=80=9D strateg=
y for Poland&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"&gt;German scholars and ethnic cleans=
ing 1919-1945" Ingo Haar, Michael Fahlbusch Berghahn Books 2006 page 10, 12=
 &lt;/ref&gt;. </SPAN></DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Within Poland, ethnic gr=
oups were to be directed into fighting with each other, in order to prepare=
 ground for German rule&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. The Poles were to b=
e steered away from opposing Germans and guided into confrontation with [[R=
ussians]] and [[Jews]]&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. Oberl=C3=A4nder addi=
tionally called for elimination of =E2=80=9Eassimiliated Jewry=E2=80=9D whi=
ch in his view carried =E2=80=9Ecommunist ideas=E2=80=9D&lt;ref name=3D"Ger=
manSch"/&gt;. Polish peasants were to be =E2=80=9Etaught=E2=80=9D that they=
 benefit from German =E2=80=9Elaw=E2=80=9D&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. =
</SPAN></DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>In order to win over Pol=
es for the side of German [[hegemony]] in [[Europe]], Oberl=C3=A4nder propo=
sed that they share in theft of Jewish property&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&=
gt;. Around 3,5 million Polish Jews and 1,5 million people who were conside=
red =E2=80=9Eassimilated Jews=E2=80=9D were to be deprived of all of their =
rights&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>By 1937 Oberl=C3=A4nder =
however started to lose influence in [[Nazi party]], as his views on the tr=
eatment of Polish population(but not Jewish question) were losing to more h=
ardline positions&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt; and personal conflict with=
 [[Erich Koch]]</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&lt;ref name=3D"Valdis"&=
gt;"Himmler's Auxiliaries: The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German Na=
tional Minorities of Europe, 1933-1945"Valdis O. Lumens page 63&lt;/ref&gt;=
. As a result he lost his position in East Prussia and within BDO by 1938&l=
t;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. From 1.4.1938 he worked as Professor of Hist=
ory at [[University of Greifswald]]&lt;ref name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;</SPAN> <=
/DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>In 1939 Oberl=C3=A4nder =
moved to work in [[Abwehrstelle Breslau]]; one of the main centers of [[sab=
otage]] and [[diversion]] organised by Nazis which conducted operations aga=
inst Poland. At the same time his work concerned issues connected to [[Ukra=
ine]] and [[Sudetes]] region and he had contacts with [[Osteuropa Institut]=
] located in Breslau([[Wroc=C5=82aw]])&lt;ref name=3D"Instytut"&gt;"Przegla=
d Zachodni", volume 16 Instytut Zachodni 1960 page 115&lt;/ref&gt;</SPAN> <=
/DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>=3D=3DSecond World War=
=3D=3D</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>In 1940 he endorsed [[et=
hnic cleansing]] of Polish population[<A href=3D"http://gplanost.x-berg.de/=
sgplanost.html" target=3D_blank rel=3Dnofollow>http://gplanost.x-berg.de/sg=
planost.html</A>], and in 1941 wrote in the German magazine Deutsche Monats=
hefte: =E2=80=9EWe have the best soldier in the world who re-conquered Germ=
an soil in the East. There is no bigger responsibility than educating this =
colonist to be the best on earth and to secure the living space for all tim=
es to come=E2=80=9D Oberl=C3=A4nder's words echoed views of [[Heinrich Himm=
ler]], who envisioned settling former soldiers, armed with weapons and plow=
s in the East, not just pure peasants</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&lt;ref name=3D"Ramos"&g=
t;=E2=80=9DSCHWERTE MUSS DER PFLUG FOLGEN: =C5=B0ber-peasents and National =
Socialists Settlements in the Occupied Eastern Territories during World War=
 Two=E2=80=9D</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Simone C. De Santiago Ra=
mos, M.S. Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Master of Arts</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>University of Texas page=
 68&lt;/ref&gt; </SPAN></DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>During 1940 he moved to =
[[University of Prague]], after which he became active in [[Ukraine]], wher=
e he was used by Nazi Germany's military as expert on =E2=80=9Eethnic psych=
ology=E2=80=9D&lt;ref name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>When Hitler [[Operation =
Barbarossa|invaded the Soviet Union]] in 1941 Oberl=C3=A4nder became an adv=
 ising officer of the [[Nachtigall Battalion]] (a Ukrainian battalion of [[=
Wehrmacht]]) which occupied [[Lviv]] in [[Ukraine]]; his position was simil=
ar to that of Soviet [[political commissar]]s. The patricipation of the Bat=
talion in [[The Lviv Civilian Massacre of 1941]] has since been subject to =
controversy, and Oberl=C3=A4nder himself has been accused after the war in =
patricipating in the events.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>In January 1942 he sent =
a report on situation in Ukraine in which he wrote that success lay in =E2=
=80=9Ewinning over the masses and pitilessly exterminating partisants as de=
leterious to the people=E2=80=9D&lt;ref name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;. </SPAN></D=
IV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>He later became the lead=
er of the mixed German and Caucasian [[Sonderverband Bergmann]], which was =
active in anti-[[Partisan (military)|partisan]] warfare. Both army groups w=
ere later claimed to have participated in [[war crime]]s. Oberl=C3=A4nder's=
 involvement in [[Eastern front]] would led to the Oberl=C3=A4nder case at =
the end of the 1950s&lt;ref name=3D"Schwarz"/&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>After leaving the Bergma=
nn group in 1943 due to dismissal from [[Wehrmacht]] due to political confl=
ict with his superiors he returned to Prague. In 1944 he became part of the=
 staff of the </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Nazi controlled puppet collaborationist organisatio=
n the [[Andrey Vlasov]]'s [[Russian Liberation Army]]&lt;ref name=3D"Schwar=
z"/&gt;. He was taken prisoner by the [[United States Army]] in 1945. </SPA=
N></DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>=3D=3DPolitical career a=
fter Second World War=3D=3D</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>During his imprisonment =
U.S military secret service appreciated Oberl=C3=A4nder's expertise in east=
ern European topics, and he went through the [[denazification]] process wit=
h ease</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit'=
'&gt;"In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and politics after =
Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 &lt;/r=
ef&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>After the war Oberl=C3=
=A4nder claimed that he criticised Nazi policies and he only wanted a Germa=
n [[hegemony]] over [[Slavic peoples]] in which they would have =E2=80=9Eso=
me respect=E2=80=9D and were =E2=80=9Etreated reasonably humanly=E2=80=9D&l=
t;ref name=3D"Schwarz"/&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Oberl=C3=A4nder again be=
came active in German politics, first in the liberal [[Free Democratic Part=
y (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]], then in the [[All-German Bloc/League o=
f Expellees and Deprived of Rights|Bloc of Refugees and Expellees]] (GB/BHE=
)(despite the himself was not expelled), where he would become a major lead=
er alongside [[ Waldemar Kraft]] also a former Nazi, interned for two years=
 for his wartime activities in occupied Poland&lt;ref name=3D"Burdens"&gt;"=
Shouldering the Burdens of Defeat: West Germany and the Reconstruction of S=
ocial Justice=E2=80=9D Michael L. Hughes, The University of North Carolina =
Press 1999&lt;/ref&gt;. Many threads connected BHE to the Nazis, as it open=
ly tried to win over former Nazis angry at denazification, calling their cr=
imes to be only =E2=80=9Euncritical belief in Germany's future=E2=80=9D&lt;=
ref name=3D"Burdens"/&gt;. The party classified those Nazis on pair with wa=
r-damaged as fellow
 victims&lt;ref name=3D"Burdens"/&gt;. The fact that the party selected as =
its leaders two former Nazis, who took part in expulsion and expropation of=
 non-Germans severely undermined German complaints about their situation&lt=
;ref name=3D"World''&gt;=E2=80=9DA World at Arms: A Global History of World=
 War II=E2=80=9D Gerhard L. Weinberg Cambridge University Press 1995 page 7=
92&lt;/ref&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Oberl=C3=A4nder joined t=
he [[Konrad Adenauer|Adenauer]] government of [[West Germany]] in 1953 as M=
inister for Refugees and Expelles&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pursuit o=
f German memory: history, television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf K=
ansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;.</SPAN> </D=
IV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>His appointment prompted=
 negative press coverage and made details of his Nazi past known&lt;ref nam=
e=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and po=
litics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 2=
22-224 &lt;/ref&gt;. But despite the fact that he nominated several former =
Nazis as co-workers, the criticism soon died down&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit''&=
gt;"In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and politics after Au=
schwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 &lt;/ref=
&gt;. Adenauer in particular was keen on getting BHE on board, as with its =
support he controlled two-thirds majority in the parliament&lt;ref name=3D"=
Pursuit''&gt;"In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and politic=
s after Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-22=
4 &lt;/ref&gt;.Adenauer knew very well that Oberl=C3=A4nder was a Nationali=
st
 Socialists and admitted he has a =E2=80=9Every brown past=E2=80=9D&lt;ref =
name=3D"Schwarz"/&gt;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>When Oberl=C3=A4nder tri=
ed to visit his former Nazi co-workes in 1956 who still served time in Land=
sberg prison, the foreign minister of Germany vetoed the trip, fearing for =
international consequences, neverthless despite hinderances Oberl=C3=A4nder=
 still tried to support far right groups.&lt;ref name=3D"Legacies"&gt;"Lega=
cies of Dachau: the uses and abuses of a concentration camp 1933-2001=E2=80=
=9D=E2=80=9E Harold Marcuse Cambridge University Press 2001 page 118&lt;/re=
f&gt;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Oberl=C3=A4nder left the=
 GB/BHE for the centre [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Christian Dem=
ocratic Union]] in 1956 when it broke with Adenauer. Adenauer himself conti=
nued to support him, as a matter of principle&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"=
In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and politics after Auschw=
itz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;=
.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>In the fall of 1959 the =
[[Eastern Bloc]] unleashed a coordinated campaign against existance of Nazi=
's in West German government, which included Oberl=C3=A4nder. He was accuse=
d of participating in Lviv Massacre&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pursuit=
 of German memory: history, television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf=
 Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;. Previous=
ly he was able to remain in politics despite the accusations, but the situa=
tion this time became more unfavourable,and some of his fellow CDU collegue=
s pushed for him to resign for the good of government and country &lt;ref n=
ame=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and =
politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page=
 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>While many in West Germa=
ny did not believe the accusations of war crimes, it was clear that Oberl=
=C3=A4nder had been an enthusiastic Nazi&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pu=
rsuit of German memory: history, television, and politics after Auschwitz",=
 Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;, and=
 due to fact that West German community had reinvented its immage as commun=
ity of innocent bystanders during Second World War, Oberl=C3=A4nder past wa=
s considered liability&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pursuit of German me=
mory: history, television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner O=
hio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>A court in the [[German =
Democratic Republic]] (East Germany) in 1960 sentenced Oberl=C3=A4nder, in =
absentia, to life imprisonment for his involvement in the Lviv massacre in =
1941. </SPAN></DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>In January 1960 during d=
iscussion with 3,000 students of [[University of Cologne]] Adenauer was fac=
ed with protests against continued presence of Oberl=C3=A4nder in German go=
vernment&lt;ref name=3D"Schwarz"/&gt;. In responce Adenauer stated that Obe=
rl=C3=A4nder was a Nazi but =E2=80=9Enever did anything dishonourable=E2=80=
=9D&lt;ref name=3D"Schwarz"/&gt;. Despite Adenauer's protection however Obe=
rl=C3=A4nder became a heavy burder for the German government in May [[1960]=
]&lt;ref name=3D"Schwarz"/&gt; and finally removed from government, but not=
 because of his past, but due to fact that he politically represented no va=
lue that was worth trouble&lt;&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pursuit of G=
erman memory: history, television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kans=
teiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Oberl=C3=A4nder neverthl=
ess continued efforts to influence German public, and in 1962 he published =
an article in [[Der Stahlhelm]], an organ of former [[Frontsoldaten]] &lt;r=
ef name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;. In it he repeated claims about an =E2=80=9Erevo=
lutionary war=E2=80=9D in which he accused the =E2=80=9Edictatorship in the=
 East=E2=80=9D of conducting an offensive revolution against the [[West]], =
in which there was =E2=80=9Eno beginning=E2=80=9D, and no movement of troop=
s, but which was led by =E2=80=9Einflitration and publicism=E2=80=9D as wel=
l as =E2=80=9Eespionage=E2=80=9D &lt;ref name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;. He denouc=
ed any possibility of =E2=80=9Ecoexistance=E2=80=9D between East and West a=
nd blamed such ideas on =E2=80=9Erootless intelligentsia=E2=80=9D &lt;ref n=
ame=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;, =E2=80=9Eto appease the enemy=E2=80=9D Oberlaner wr=
ote was to =E2=80=9Efurther world revolution=E2=80=9D &lt;ref name=3D"Eastw=
ards"/&gt;. As historian [[Michael Burleigh]] notes, the idea that the =E2=
=80=9Eunfree=E2=80=9D perhaps didn't wanted to be
 =E2=80=9Eliberated=E2=80=9D by the likes of Oberl=C3=A4nder and his =E2=80=
=9EBund der Frontsoldaten=E2=80=9D(who passed that way twenty years ago)-di=
d not occur to him &lt;ref name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>In 1986, Oberl=C3=A4nder=
 received [[Bavarian Order of Merit]] from the state of [[Bavaria]]&lt;ref =
name=3D"Bav''&gt;=E2=80=9DProblems of Political Reeducation in West Germany=
, 1945-1960=E2=80=9D Michael H. Kater Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual Volume=
 4 &lt;/ref&gt;.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>[[File:Oberlander1.jpg|1=
50px|left|thumb|[[KGB]] document on action against Oberl=C3=A4nder and Ukra=
inian [[Nachtigall]] ([[1959]]).]]</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>His conviction was squas=
hed by a new German court in 1993, which contended that the Soviet evidence=
 had been fabricated by the [[KGB]]{{Verify source|date=3DMarch 2009}}{{Fac=
t|date=3DMarch 2009}}&lt;!-- de: only says "overturned on formal grounds", =
gives scholarly source --&gt;. At the end of his life, Oberl=C3=A4nder beca=
me explicitly involved in [[far right]] and [[anti-immigration]] politics. =
</SPAN></DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>A new case was opened ag=
ainst Oberl=C3=A4nder in 1996 in which he was charged with the unlawful kil=
ling of a civilian in [[Kislovodsk]] in 1942 during his Bergmann leadership=
&lt;ref&gt;Der Spiegel</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DDE>18 / 1996 ''Kriegsverbrehen=
. Die M=C3=BChlen mahlen langsam''&lt;/ref&gt;. </SPAN><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>T=
his time it involved an interrogation of female teacher, who was whipped an=
d after refusing to talk about suspected partisant activity shot in the bre=
ast by Oberl=C3=A4nder, who left her to die. Oberl=C3=A4nder called those a=
llegations =E2=80=9ESoviet lies=E2=80=9D.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nder =
died in [[Bonn]] in 1998.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>=3D=3DIn fiction=3D=3D</=
SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>*Professor Theodor Oberl=
=C3=A4nder appears in [[Jonathan Littell]]'s [[docudrama]] "[[Les Bienveill=
antes]]".</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>&nbsp;</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>=3D=3D References =3D=3D=
</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>* {{PND|118735829}} {{de=
 icon}}</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>* [<A href=3D"http://zeu=
s.zeit.de/text/2001/26/200126_a-lemberg.xml" target=3D_blank rel=3Dnofollow=
>http://zeus.zeit.de/text/2001/26/200126_a-lemberg.xml</A> Article about th=
e events in Lviv/Lemberg] {{de icon}}</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US>* [<A href=3D"http://www=
.ursulahomann.de/JudenInMecklenburgVorpommern/kap005.html" target=3D_blank =
rel=3Dnofollow>http://www.ursulahomann.de/JudenInMecklenburgVorpommern/kap0=
05.html</A> Fate of the Jews in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Oberl=C3=A4nder'=
s involvement] {{de icon}}</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DDE>* [<A href=3D"http://people=
.freenet.de/Transsylvania/Oberlaender.html" target=3D_blank rel=3Dnofollow>=
http://people.freenet.de/Transsylvania/Oberlaender.html</A> Extracts from '=
' "Grenzlandpolitik" und Ostforschung an der Peripherie des Reiches. Das os=
tpreussische Masuren 1919-1945'' by Andreas Kossert] {{de icon}}</SPAN> </D=
IV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DDE>&lt;references/&gt; </SPAN>=
</DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DDE>{{DEFAULTSORT:Oberl=C3=A4nd=
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ersity of Berlin alumni]]</SPAN> </DIV>
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<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DDE>[[de:Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nde=
r]]</SPAN> </DIV>
<P style=3D"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><SPAN lang=3DDE>[[no:Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nde=
r]]</SPAN> </DIV>
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r]]</SPAN> </DIV>
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r]]</SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV class=3Dgmail_quote>2009/8/26 Molobo Molobo <SPAN dir=3Dltr>&lt;<A rel=
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<BLOCKQUOTE class=3Dgmail_quote style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt=
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 article regarding:<BR><A href=3D"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Ober=
l%C3%A4nder" target=3D_blank rel=3Dnofollow>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th=
eodor_Oberl%C3%A4nder</A><BR><BR>The article is attached in doc format. It =
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the reference to work properly at all and had to manually copy it several t=
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