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=0A=0A=0A=0A[[Image:Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nder.gif|thumb]]=0A=0A'''Theodor Obe=
rl=C3=A4nder''' ([[May 1]], [[1905]]=0A&ndash; [[May 4]], [[1998]]) was a [=
[Ostforschung|Ostforschung scientist]],=0A[[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] officer, an=
d [[Germany|German]] [[politician]].=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AFrom 1953 to 1960 he =
was a Minister for=0ADisplaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War for the=
 [[Federal Republic of=0AGermany]]. He is considered by some historians to =
be among the academics who=0Alaid the intellectual foundation for [[Final S=
olution]]<ref=0Aname=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit of German memory: history, te=
levision,=0Aand politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University =
Press; 2006=0Apage 222-224 </ref>.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=3D=3D Biography =3D=3D=
=0A=0A=3D=3DMembership in Nazi party and Ostforschung=0Astudies=3D=3D=0A=0A=
=C2=A0=0A=0AOberl=C3=A4nder was born in [[Meiningen]], [[Saxe-Meiningen]],=
=0Apart of the [[German Empire]] in 1905. At the ege of eighteen he partici=
pated=0Ain [[Adolf Hitler]]'s [[Beer Hall Putsch]] in [[Munich]], [[Bavaria=
]], in 1923=0Aduring the existance of [[Weimar Republic]]. After joining Na=
zis in 1933 he=0Abecame a senior SA commander and leader of NSDAP district<=
ref=0Aname=3D"Schwarz">"Konrad Adenauer: A German Politician and=0AStatesma=
n in a Period of War, Revolution and Reconstruction : The Statesman :=0A195=
2-1967", Hans Peter-Schwarz pages 91, 432, Berghahn Books 1997 </ref>.=0AOb=
erl=C3=A4nder obtained a doctorate in [[Agricultural Science]]s and wrote s=
everal=0Abooks about the need for German intervention in the agricultural s=
ystems of=0A[[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] and the [[Soviet Union]], whi=
ch he considered=0A"un-economic". =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ALike other [[Ostforschu=
ng]] researchers;=0AMeinhold, [[Peter-Heinz Seraphim]], Oberl=C3=A4nder's u=
se the forms of economic=0Autilitarinism was to cover up stereotypes about =
Jews and Poles<ref=0Aname=3D"Ethics"/>. Those views were being rationalised=
 with terms of=0Ahealth and =E2=80=9Esecurity threats=E2=80=9D This suppose=
d economic science was in fact, in=0Athe words of historian Michael Burleig=
h =E2=80=9Ea denatured hybrid throughoutly=0Asaturated by Nazi race ideolog=
y=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"Ethics">"Ethics=0Aand extermination-Reflections on N=
azi Genocide", Michael Burleigh page=0A177, Cambridge University Press 1997=
</ref>=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AOberl=C3=A4nder became a [[Nazi Party|National=0ASo=
cialist]] in 1933. He became a professor at the [[University of Greifswald]=
],=0Awhere he took the forefront in making the university and the [[Provinc=
e of=0APomerania]] "[[judenfrei]]" (free of Jews). On [[August 4]],=0A[[193=
5]], he became an assistant to [[Gauleiter]] [[Erich Koch]], under whose=0A=
authority he started to gather information about non-German minorities in=
=0A[[East Prussia]]. A significant role in this process was played by the=
=0A"Bund Deutscher Osten" (BDO - "League for a German East"),=0Awhich advoc=
ated radical [[Germanization]] of the eastern provinces and the=0Aeliminati=
on of the [[Polish language]] in [[Masuria]]. The language's traditional=0A=
usage in the [[Protestantism|Protestant]] churches of the [[Masurians]] was=
=0Aoutlawed in November 1939, with the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] church lead=
ership=0Aacquiescing in December.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AIn March 1935 he attende=
d a meeting of=0Aprofessors, scholars and [[NSDAP]] training specialists de=
dicated to study of=0Athe =E2=80=9EEast=E2=80=9D where he dedicated his ess=
eys at what he described as =E2=80=9Eborder=0Astruggle=E2=80=9D with Poland=
<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>.=0A=0AThe meeting was divided into two groups:=E2=
=80=9Dbase=E2=80=9D=0Aand =E2=80=9Efront=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>.=
 The =E2=80=9Ebase=E2=80=9D included 58=0Aprofessors, lecturers and researc=
h assistants, the =E2=80=9Efront=E2=80=9D was made up of=0Apolitical functi=
onaries, seven training specialists of the NSDAP, [[Hitler=0AYouth]], three=
 heads of Reichsarbeitsdiensts(forced labour service), two=0Ateachers and t=
wo civil servants<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>. It was=0AOberl=C3=A4nder who in=
truduced the 72 patricipants on the first day and set for them=0Athe task t=
o study =E2=80=9Eborder struggle=E2=80=9D against Poland<ref=0Aname=3D"Germ=
anSch"/>.=0A=0AAttacking Poland, he advocated battle against=0A[[Polish min=
ority in Nazi Germany]], and demanded =0A=0Athat social relationships betwe=
en Germans and=0APolish immigrants be prohibited<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>.=
=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AOberl=C3=A4nder implied that Poland was not capable=0Aof =
sociopolitical and agrarian reforms due that fact that it was not =E2=80=9E=
racially=0Ahomogenous=E2=80=9D nation state<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>. The p=
opulation=0Aof Polish cities has been named by him as =E2=80=9Etransplanted=
 rubes=E2=80=9D<ref=0Aname=3D"GermanSch"/>. =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ASharing Hitle=
r's view Oberl=C3=A4nder believed that=0Athe treaties regarding the [[East]=
], like the [[German=E2=80=93Polish Non-Aggression=0APact]], were only cond=
itional, and Ostforschung studies should go on as usual=0A=E2=80=9Eso that =
after ten years we have everything ready that we could need in any=0Agiven =
circumstances=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"Eastwards">"Germany turns=0Aeastwards: a=
 study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich", Michael Burleigh=0ACambridge Un=
iversity Press, 1988, pages 76 ,144-146, 222, 317-318 </ref>.=0AContinuing =
his studies on rural population of Poland he noted in his works that=0A=E2=
=80=9EPoland has eight million inhabitants too many=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"Ea=
stwards"/>.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AReflecting on the temporary lack of possibilit=
y=0Aof open [[war]] in the East ,Oberl=C3=A4nder wrote the following:=0A=0A=
=C2=A0=0A=0A''The struggle for ethnicity is nothing other=0Athen the contin=
uation of war by other means under the cover of peace. Not a=0Afight with g=
as, granades, and machine-guns, but a fight about homes, farms,=0Aschools a=
nd the soulrs of children, a struggle whose end, unlike in war, is not=0Afo=
rseeable as long as the insane principle of the nationalism of the state=0A=
dominates the Eastern region, a struggle which goes on with one=0Aaim:exter=
mination!'' <ref name=3D"Eastwards"/>=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AOther features of Ob=
erl=C3=A4nder's thoughts=0Aconcentrated on depicting Jews as carriers of [[=
communism]], and the benefits=0Aof peasant [[antisemitism]] to German goals=
 in Central and Eastern=0AEurope<ref name=3D"Eastwards"/>.=0A=0AHis prepera=
tory work in BDO involved=0Amonitioring over 1,200,000 Poles living in Germ=
any, with card-name index of=0Auntrustworthy Poles and Germans living in th=
e borderlands, and proposals to=0AGermanise Polish place, street, and famil=
y names<ref=0Aname=3D"Eastwards"/>.=0A=0AIn the summer of [[1937]] Oberl=C3=
=A4nder formulated=0Aa =E2=80=9Edivide and conquer=E2=80=9D strategy for Po=
land<ref=0Aname=3D"GermanSch">German scholars and ethnic cleansing=0A1919-1=
945" Ingo Haar, Michael Fahlbusch Berghahn Books 2006 page 10, 12=0A</ref>.=
 =0A=0AWithin Poland, ethnic groups were to be=0Adirected into fighting wit=
h each other, in order to prepare ground for German=0Arule<ref name=3D"Germ=
anSch"/>. The Poles were to be steered away=0Afrom opposing Germans and gui=
ded into confrontation with [[Russians]] and=0A[[Jews]]<ref name=3D"GermanS=
ch"/>. Oberl=C3=A4nder additionally called=0Afor elimination of =E2=80=9Eas=
similiated Jewry=E2=80=9D which in his view carried =E2=80=9Ecommunist=0Aid=
eas=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>. Polish peasants were to be =E2=80=9E=
taught=E2=80=9D=0Athat they benefit from German =E2=80=9Elaw=E2=80=9D<ref n=
ame=3D"GermanSch"/>. =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AIn order to win over Poles for the s=
ide of=0AGerman [[hegemony]] in [[Europe]], Oberl=C3=A4nder proposed that t=
hey share in theft=0Aof Jewish property<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/>. Around 3,=
5 million=0APolish Jews and 1,5 million people who were considered =E2=80=
=9Eassimilated Jews=E2=80=9D were=0Ato be deprived of all of their rights<r=
ef name=3D"GermanSch"/>.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ABy 1937 Oberl=C3=A4nder however s=
tarted to lose=0Ainfluence in [[Nazi party]], as his views on the treatment=
 of Polish=0Apopulation(but not Jewish question) were losing to more hardli=
ne=0Apositions<ref name=3D"GermanSch"/> and personal conflict with=0A[[Eric=
h Koch]]=0A=0A<ref=0Aname=3D"Valdis">"Himmler's Auxiliaries: The Volksdeuts=
che=0AMittelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe,=0A1933-194=
5"Valdis O. Lumens page 63</ref>. As a result he lost his=0Aposition in Eas=
t Prussia and within BDO by 1938<ref=0Aname=3D"GermanSch"/>. From 1.4.1938 =
he worked as Professor of=0AHistory at [[University of Greifswald]]<ref nam=
e=3D"Eastwards"/>=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AIn 1939 Oberl=C3=A4nder moved to work in=
=0A[[Abwehrstelle Breslau]]; one of the main centers of [[sabotage]] and=0A=
[[diversion]] organised by Nazis which conducted operations against Poland.=
 At=0Athe same time his work concerned issues connected to [[Ukraine]] and=
=0A[[Sudetes]] region and he had contacts with [[Osteuropa Institut]] locat=
ed in=0ABreslau([[Wroc=C5=82aw]])<ref name=3D"Instytut">"Przeglad=0AZachodn=
i", volume 16 Instytut Zachodni 1960 page 115</ref>=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=3D=3D=
Second World War=3D=3D=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AIn 1940 he endorsed [[ethnic cleans=
ing]] of=0APolish population[http://gplanost.x-berg.de/sgplanost.html], and=
 in 1941 wrote=0Ain the German magazine Deutsche Monatshefte: =E2=80=9EWe h=
ave the best soldier in the=0Aworld who re-conquered German soil in the Eas=
t. There is no bigger=0Aresponsibility than educating this colonist to be t=
he best on earth and to=0Asecure the living space for all times to come=E2=
=80=9D Oberl=C3=A4nder's words echoed views=0Aof [[Heinrich Himmler]], who =
envisioned settling former soldiers, armed with=0Aweapons and plows in the =
East, not just pure peasants=0A=0A<ref name=3D"Ramos">=E2=80=9DSCHWERTE=0AM=
USS DER PFLUG FOLGEN: =C5=B0ber-peasents and National Socialists Settlement=
s in the=0AOccupied Eastern Territories during World War Two=E2=80=9D=0A=0A=
Simone C. De Santiago Ramos, M.S. Thesis=0APrepared for the Degree of Maste=
r of Arts=0A=0AUniversity of Texas page 68</ref> =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ADuring 1=
940 he moved to [[University of=0APrague]], after which he became active in=
 [[Ukraine]], where he was used by=0ANazi Germany's military as expert on =
=E2=80=9Eethnic psychology=E2=80=9D<ref=0Aname=3D"Eastwards"/>.=0A=0A=C2=A0=
=0A=0AWhen Hitler [[Operation Barbarossa|invaded the=0ASoviet Union]] in 19=
41 Oberl=C3=A4nder became an adv ising officer of the=0A[[Nachtigall Battal=
ion]] (a Ukrainian battalion of [[Wehrmacht]]) which=0Aoccupied [[Lviv]] in=
 [[Ukraine]]; his position was similar to that of Soviet=0A[[political comm=
issar]]s. The patricipation of the Battalion in [[The Lviv=0ACivilian Massa=
cre of 1941]] has since been subject to controversy, and=0AOberl=C3=A4nder =
himself has been accused after the war in patricipating in the=0Aevents.=0A=
=0AIn January 1942 he sent a report on situation=0Ain Ukraine in which he w=
rote that success lay in =E2=80=9Ewinning over the masses and=0Apitilessly =
exterminating partisants as deleterious to the people=E2=80=9D<ref=0Aname=
=3D"Eastwards"/>. =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AHe later became the leader of the mixed=
 German=0Aand Caucasian [[Sonderverband Bergmann]], which was active in ant=
i-[[Partisan=0A(military)|partisan]] warfare. Both army groups were later c=
laimed to have=0Aparticipated in [[war crime]]s. Oberl=C3=A4nder's involvem=
ent in [[Eastern front]]=0Awould led to the Oberl=C3=A4nder case at the end=
 of the 1950s<ref name=3D"Schwarz"/>.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AAfter leaving the Be=
rgmann group in 1943 due to=0Adismissal from [[Wehrmacht]] due to political=
 conflict with his superiors he=0Areturned to Prague. In 1944 he became par=
t of the staff of the =0A=0ANazi controlled puppet collaborationist=0Aorgan=
isation the [[Andrey Vlasov]]'s [[Russian Liberation Army]]<ref=0Aname=3D"S=
chwarz"/>. He was taken prisoner by the [[United States=0AArmy]] in 1945. =
=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=3D=3DPolitical career after Second World War=3D=3D=0A=0A=
=C2=A0=0A=0ADuring his imprisonment U.S military secret=0Aservice appreciat=
ed Oberl=C3=A4nder's expertise in eastern European topics, and he=0Awent th=
rough the [[denazification]] process with ease=0A=0A<ref name=3D"Pursuit''>=
"In=0Apursuit of German memory: history, television, and politics after=0AA=
uschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 </ref>.=
=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AAfter the war Oberl=C3=A4nder claimed that he=0Acriticise=
d Nazi policies and he only wanted a German [[hegemony]] over [[Slavic=0Ape=
oples]] in which they would have =E2=80=9Esome respect=E2=80=9D and were =
=E2=80=9Etreated reasonably=0Ahumanly=E2=80=9D<ref name=3D"Schwarz"/>.=0A=
=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AOberl=C3=A4nder again became active in German=0Apolitics, fi=
rst in the liberal [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free=0ADemocratic Part=
y]], then in the [[All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and=0ADeprived of Ri=
ghts|Bloc of Refugees and Expellees]] (GB/BHE)(despite the=0Ahimself was no=
t expelled), where he would become a major leader alongside [[=0AWaldemar K=
raft]] also a former Nazi, interned for two years for his wartime=0Aactivit=
ies in occupied Poland<ref=0Aname=3D"Burdens">"Shouldering the Burdens of D=
efeat: West Germany=0Aand the Reconstruction of Social Justice=E2=80=9D Mic=
hael L. Hughes, The University of=0ANorth Carolina Press 1999</ref>. Many t=
hreads connected BHE to the Nazis,=0Aas it openly tried to win over former =
Nazis angry at denazification, calling=0Atheir crimes to be only =E2=80=9Eu=
ncritical belief in Germany's future=E2=80=9D<ref=0Aname=3D"Burdens"/>. The=
 party classified those Nazis on pair with=0Awar-damaged as fellow victims<=
ref name=3D"Burdens"/>. The fact=0Athat the party selected as its leaders t=
wo former Nazis, who took part in expulsion=0Aand expropation of non-German=
s severely undermined German complaints about=0Atheir situation<ref name=3D=
"World''>=E2=80=9DA World at Arms: A Global History=0Aof World War II=E2=80=
=9D Gerhard L. Weinberg Cambridge University Press 1995 page=0A792</ref>.=
=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AOberl=C3=A4nder joined the [[Konrad=0AAdenauer|Adenauer]]=
 government of [[West Germany]] in 1953 as Minister for=0ARefugees and Expe=
lles<ref name=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit of German=0Amemory: history, televis=
ion, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf=0AKansteiner Ohio University Press=
; 2006 page 222-224 </ref>.=0A=0AHis appointment prompted negative press=0A=
coverage and made details of his Nazi past known<ref=0Aname=3D"Pursuit''>"I=
n pursuit of German memory: history, television,=0Aand politics after Ausch=
witz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006=0Apage 222-224 </ref>. B=
ut despite the fact that he nominated several=0Aformer Nazis as co-workers,=
 the criticism soon died down<ref=0Aname=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit of German=
 memory: history, television,=0Aand politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kanstei=
ner Ohio University Press; 2006=0Apage 222-224 </ref>. Adenauer in particul=
ar was keen on getting BHE on=0Aboard, as with its support he controlled tw=
o-thirds majority in the=0Aparliament<ref name=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit of =
German memory:=0Ahistory, television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf K=
ansteiner Ohio University=0APress; 2006 page 222-224 </ref>.Adenauer knew v=
ery well that Oberl=C3=A4nder=0Awas a Nationalist Socialists and admitted h=
e has a =E2=80=9Every brown past=E2=80=9D<ref=0Aname=3D"Schwarz"/>=0A=0A=C2=
=A0=0A=0AWhen Oberl=C3=A4nder tried to visit his former Nazi=0Aco-workes in=
 1956 who still served time in Landsberg prison, the foreign=0Aminister of =
Germany vetoed the trip, fearing for international consequences,=0Aneverthl=
ess despite hinderances Oberl=C3=A4nder still tried to support far right=0A=
groups.<ref name=3D"Legacies">"Legacies of Dachau: the uses=0Aand abuses of=
 a concentration camp 1933-2001=E2=80=9D=E2=80=9E Harold Marcuse Cambridge=
=0AUniversity Press 2001 page 118</ref>=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AOberl=C3=A4nder le=
ft the GB/BHE for the centre=0A[[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Chris=
tian Democratic Union]] in 1956=0Awhen it broke with Adenauer. Adenauer him=
self continued to support him, as a=0Amatter of principle<ref name=3D"Pursu=
it''>"In pursuit of German=0Amemory: history, television, and politics afte=
r Auschwitz", Wulf=0AKansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 </=
ref>.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AIn the fall of 1959 the [[Eastern Bloc]]=0Aunleashed=
 a coordinated campaign against existance of Nazi's in West German=0Agovern=
ment, which included Oberl=C3=A4nder. He was accused of participating in Lv=
iv=0AMassacre<ref name=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit of German memory:=0Ahistory=
, television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio=0AUnivers=
ity Press; 2006 page 222-224 </ref>. Previously he was able to=0Aremain in =
politics despite the accusations, but the situation this time became=0Amore=
 unfavourable,and some of his fellow CDU collegues pushed for him to resign=
=0Afor the good of government and country <ref name=3D"Pursuit''>"In=0Apurs=
uit of German memory: history, television, and politics after=0AAuschwitz",=
 Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224=0A</ref>.=0A=0AWh=
ile many in West Germany did not believe the=0Aaccusations of war crimes, i=
t was clear that Oberl=C3=A4nder had been an=0Aenthusiastic Nazi<ref name=
=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit of German=0Amemory: history, television, and poli=
tics after Auschwitz", Wulf=0AKansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 2=
22-224 </ref>, and due to=0Afact that West German community had reinvented =
its immage as community of=0Ainnocent bystanders during Second World War, O=
berl=C3=A4nder past was considered=0Aliability<ref name=3D"Pursuit''>"In pu=
rsuit of German memory:=0Ahistory, television, and politics after Auschwitz=
", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio=0AUniversity Press; 2006 page 222-224 </ref>.=0A=0A=
=C2=A0=0A=0AA court in the [[German Democratic Republic]]=0A(East Germany) =
in 1960 sentenced Oberl=C3=A4nder, in absentia, to life imprisonment=0Afor =
his involvement in the Lviv massacre in 1941. =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AIn January =
1960 during discussion with 3,000=0Astudents of [[University of Cologne]] A=
denauer was faced with protests against=0Acontinued presence of Oberl=C3=A4=
nder in German government<ref=0Aname=3D"Schwarz"/>. In responce Adenauer st=
ated that Oberl=C3=A4nder was=0Aa Nazi but =E2=80=9Enever did anything dish=
onourable=E2=80=9D<ref=0Aname=3D"Schwarz"/>. Despite Adenauer's protection =
however Oberl=C3=A4nder=0Abecame a heavy burder for the German government i=
n May [[1960]]<ref=0Aname=3D"Schwarz"/> and finally removed from government=
, but not=0Abecause of his past, but due to fact that he politically repres=
ented no value=0Athat was worth trouble<<ref name=3D"Pursuit''>"In pursuit =
of=0AGerman memory: history, television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wul=
f=0AKansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 </ref>.=0A=0A=C2=A0=
=0A=0AOberl=C3=A4nder neverthless continued efforts to=0Ainfluence German p=
ublic, and in 1962 he published an article in [[Der=0AStahlhelm]], an organ=
 of former [[Frontsoldaten]] <ref=0Aname=3D"Eastwards"/>. In it he repeated=
 claims about an=0A=E2=80=9Erevolutionary war=E2=80=9D in which he accused =
the =E2=80=9Edictatorship in the East=E2=80=9D of=0Aconducting an offensive=
 revolution against the [[West]], in which there was =E2=80=9Eno=0Abeginnin=
g=E2=80=9D, and no movement of troops, but which was led by =E2=80=9Einflit=
ration and=0Apublicism=E2=80=9D as well as =E2=80=9Eespionage=E2=80=9D <ref=
 name=3D"Eastwards"/>. He=0Adenouced any possibility of =E2=80=9Ecoexistanc=
e=E2=80=9D between East and West and blamed such=0Aideas on =E2=80=9Erootle=
ss intelligentsia=E2=80=9D <ref name=3D"Eastwards"/>, =E2=80=9Eto=0Aappease=
 the enemy=E2=80=9D Oberlaner wrote was to =E2=80=9Efurther world revolutio=
n=E2=80=9D <ref=0Aname=3D"Eastwards"/>. As historian [[Michael Burleigh]] n=
otes, the=0Aidea that the =E2=80=9Eunfree=E2=80=9D perhaps didn't wanted to=
 be =E2=80=9Eliberated=E2=80=9D by the likes of=0AOberl=C3=A4nder and his =
=E2=80=9EBund der Frontsoldaten=E2=80=9D(who passed that way twenty years=
=0Aago)-did not occur to him <ref name=3D"Eastwards"/>.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AIn=
 1986, Oberl=C3=A4nder received [[Bavarian Order=0Aof Merit]] from the stat=
e of [[Bavaria]]<ref name=3D"Bav''>=E2=80=9DProblems=0Aof Political Reeduca=
tion in West Germany, 1945-1960=E2=80=9D Michael H. Kater Simon=0AWiesentha=
l Center Annual Volume 4 </ref>.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A[[File:Oberla=
nder1.jpg|150px|left|thumb|[[KGB]]=0Adocument on action against Oberl=C3=A4=
nder and Ukrainian [[Nachtigall]]=0A([[1959]]).]]=0A=0AHis conviction was s=
quashed by a new German=0Acourt in 1993, which contended that the Soviet ev=
idence had been fabricated by=0Athe [[KGB]]{{Verify source|date=3DMarch 200=
9}}{{Fact|date=3DMarch 2009}}<!-- de:=0Aonly says "overturned on formal gro=
unds", gives scholarly source=0A-->. At the end of his life, Oberl=C3=A4nde=
r became explicitly involved in [[far=0Aright]] and [[anti-immigration]] po=
litics. =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AA new case was opened against Oberl=C3=A4nder in=
=0A1996 in which he was charged with the unlawful killing of a civilian in=
=0A[[Kislovodsk]] in 1942 during his Bergmann leadership<ref>Der Spiegel=0A=
=0A18 / 1996 ''Kriegsverbrehen. Die M=C3=BChlen mahlen=0Alangsam''</ref>. T=
his=0Atime it involved an interrogation of female teacher, who was whipped =
and after=0Arefusing to talk about suspected partisant activity shot in the=
 breast by=0AOberl=C3=A4nder, who left her to die. Oberl=C3=A4nder called t=
hose allegations =E2=80=9ESoviet=0Alies=E2=80=9D.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ATheodor =
Oberl=C3=A4nder died in [[Bonn]] in 1998.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=3D=
=3DIn fiction=3D=3D=0A=0A*Professor Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nder appears in=0A[[=
Jonathan Littell]]'s [[docudrama]] "[[Les Bienveillantes]]".=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=
=0A=3D=3D References =3D=3D=0A=0A* {{PND|118735829}} {{de icon}}=0A=0A*=0A[=
http://zeus.zeit.de/text/2001/26/200126_a-lemberg.xml Article about the eve=
nts=0Ain Lviv/Lemberg] {{de icon}}=0A=0A*=0A[http://www.ursulahomann.de/Jud=
enInMecklenburgVorpommern/kap005.html Fate of=0Athe Jews in Mecklenburg-Vor=
pommern and Oberl=C3=A4nder's involvement] {{de icon}}=0A=0A*=0A[http://peo=
ple.freenet.de/Transsylvania/Oberlaender.html Extracts from ''=0A"Grenzland=
politik" und Ostforschung an der Peripherie des Reiches.=0ADas ostpreussisc=
he Masuren 1919-1945'' by Andreas Kossert] {{de icon}}=0A=0A<references/> =
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amburg alumni]]=0A=0A[[Category:Humboldt University of Berlin=0Aalumni]]=0A=
=0A[[Category:University of K=C3=B6nigsberg alumni]]=0A=0A[[Category:Univer=
sity of Greifswald faculty]]=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A[[de:Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nder]=
]=0A=0A[[no:Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nder]]=0A=0A[[pl:Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nder]]=
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2009/8/26 Molobo Molobo <molobus@gmail.com>
=0AI 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;">Looks great ! Who is going to post it ?<div>J=
acek<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 8/26/09, Molobo Molobo <i>&lt;molobus@gmail.com&=
gt;</i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style=3D"border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 1=
6, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Molobo Molobo &lt;=
molobus@gmail.com&gt;<br>Subject: Re: [WPM] Theodore Oberlander article com=
plete<br>To: "Wikipedia statistics" &lt;folks@wikipedometer.net&gt;<br>Date=
: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 12:26 PM<br><br><div id=3D"yiv2081951596"><st=
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=0A</style>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=
=3D"DE">[[Image:Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nder.gif|thumb]]</span></p>=0A=0A<p styl=
e=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">'''Theodor Ob=
erl=C3=A4nder''' ([[May 1]], [[1905]]=0A&amp;ndash; [[May 4]], [[1998]]) wa=
s a [[Ostforschung|Ostforschung scientist]],=0A[[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] office=
r, and [[Germany|German]] [[politician]].</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margi=
n-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A=
<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">From 1=
953 to 1960 he was a Minister for=0ADisplaced Persons, Refugees and Victims=
 of War for the [[Federal Republic of=0AGermany]]. He is considered by some=
 historians to be among the academics who=0Alaid the intellectual foundatio=
n for [[Final Solution]]&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pursuit of Germa=
n memory: history, television,=0Aand politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kanste=
iner Ohio University Press; 2006=0Apage 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;.</span></p>=0A=
=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nb=
sp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" l=
ang=3D"EN-US">=3D=3D Biography =3D=3D</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bo=
ttom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">=3D=3DMembership in Nazi pa=
rty and Ostforschung=0Astudies=3D=3D</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bot=
tom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p st=
yle=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">Oberl=C3=A4=
nder was born in [[Meiningen]], [[Saxe-Meiningen]],=0Apart of the [[German =
Empire]] in 1905. At the ege of eighteen he participated=0Ain [[Adolf Hitle=
r]]'s [[Beer Hall Putsch]] in [[Munich]], [[Bavaria]], in 1923=0Aduring the=
 existance of [[Weimar Republic]]. After joining Nazis in 1933 he=0Abecame =
a senior SA commander and leader of NSDAP district&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Schwarz=
"&gt;"Konrad Adenauer: A German Politician and=0AStatesman in a Period of W=
ar, Revolution and Reconstruction : The Statesman :=0A1952-1967", Hans Pete=
r-Schwarz pages 91, 432, Berghahn Books 1997 &lt;/ref&gt;.=0AOberl=C3=A4nde=
r obtained a doctorate in [[Agricultural Science]]s and wrote several=0Aboo=
ks about the need for German intervention in the agricultural systems of=0A=
[[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] and the [[Soviet Union]], which he consid=
ered=0A"un-economic". </span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"=
><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-=
bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">Like other [[Ostforschung=
]] researchers;=0AMeinhold, [[Peter-Heinz Seraphim]], Oberl=C3=A4nder's use=
 the forms of economic=0Autilitarinism was to cover up stereotypes about Je=
ws and Poles&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Ethics"/&gt;. Those views were being rational=
ised with terms of=0Ahealth and =E2=80=9Esecurity threats=E2=80=9D This sup=
posed economic science was in fact, in=0Athe words of historian Michael Bur=
leigh =E2=80=9Ea denatured hybrid throughoutly=0Asaturated by Nazi race ide=
ology=E2=80=9D&lt;ref name=3D"Ethics"&gt;"Ethics=0Aand extermination-Reflec=
tions on Nazi Genocide", Michael Burleigh page=0A177, Cambridge University =
Press 1997&lt;/ref&gt;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"=
><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-=
bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">Oberl=C3=A4nder became a =
[[Nazi Party|National=0ASocialist]] in 1933. He became a professor at the [=
[University of Greifswald]],=0Awhere he took the forefront in making the un=
iversity and the [[Province of=0APomerania]] "[[judenfrei]]" (free of Jews)=
.. On [[August 4]],=0A[[1935]], he became an assistant to [[Gauleiter]] [[Er=
ich Koch]], under whose=0Aauthority he started to gather information about =
non-German minorities in=0A[[East Prussia]]. A significant role in this pro=
cess was played by the=0A"Bund Deutscher Osten" (BDO - "League for a German=
 East"),=0Awhich advocated radical [[Germanization]] of the eastern provinc=
es and the=0Aelimination of the [[Polish language]] in [[Masuria]]. The lan=
guage's traditional=0Ausage in the [[Protestantism|Protestant]] churches of=
 the [[Masurians]] was=0Aoutlawed in November 1939, with the [[Lutheranism|=
Lutheran]] church leadership=0Aacquiescing in December.</span></p>=0A=0A<p =
style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</s=
pan></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D=
"EN-US">In March 1935 he attended a meeting of=0Aprofessors, scholars and [=
[NSDAP]] training specialists dedicated to study of=0Athe =E2=80=9EEast=E2=
=80=9D where he dedicated his esseys at what he described as =E2=80=9Eborde=
r=0Astruggle=E2=80=9D with Poland&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;.</span></p=
>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US"=
>The meeting was divided into two groups:=E2=80=9Dbase=E2=80=9D=0Aand =E2=
=80=9Efront=E2=80=9D&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. The =E2=80=9Ebase=E2=
=80=9D included 58=0Aprofessors, lecturers and research assistants, the =E2=
=80=9Efront=E2=80=9D was made up of=0Apolitical functionaries, seven traini=
ng specialists of the NSDAP, [[Hitler=0AYouth]], three heads of Reichsarbei=
tsdiensts(forced labour service), two=0Ateachers and two civil servants&lt;=
ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. It was=0AOberl=C3=A4nder who intruduced the 72=
 patricipants on the first day and set for them=0Athe task to study =E2=80=
=9Eborder struggle=E2=80=9D against Poland&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;=
..</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lan=
g=3D"EN-US">Attacking Poland, he advocated battle against=0A[[Polish minori=
ty in Nazi Germany]], and demanded </span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bott=
om:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">that social relationships bet=
ween Germans and=0APolish immigrants be prohibited&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch=
"/&gt;.</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D=
"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt=
;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">Oberl=C3=A4nder implied that Poland was =
not capable=0Aof sociopolitical and agrarian reforms due that fact that it =
was not =E2=80=9Eracially=0Ahomogenous=E2=80=9D nation state&lt;ref name=3D=
"GermanSch"/&gt;. The population=0Aof Polish cities has been named by him a=
s =E2=80=9Etransplanted rubes=E2=80=9D&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. </=
span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=
=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><spa=
n style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">Sharing Hitler's view Oberl=C3=A4nder believed =
that=0Athe treaties regarding the [[East]], like the [[German=E2=80=93Polis=
h Non-Aggression=0APact]], were only conditional, and Ostforschung studies =
should go on as usual=0A=E2=80=9Eso that after ten years we have everything=
 ready that we could need in any=0Agiven circumstances=E2=80=9D&lt;ref name=
=3D"Eastwards"&gt;"Germany turns=0Aeastwards: a study of Ostforschung in th=
e Third Reich", Michael Burleigh=0ACambridge University Press, 1988, pages =
76 ,144-146, 222, 317-318 &lt;/ref&gt;.=0AContinuing his studies on rural p=
opulation of Poland he noted in his works that=0A=E2=80=9EPoland has eight =
million inhabitants too many=E2=80=9D&lt;ref name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;.</span=
></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN=
-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span styl=
e=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">Reflecting on the temporary lack of possibility=0Aof =
open [[war]] in the East ,Oberl=C3=A4nder wrote the following:</span></p>=
=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">=
&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"=
" lang=3D"EN-US">''The struggle for ethnicity is nothing other=0Athen the c=
ontinuation of war by other means under the cover of peace. Not a=0Afight w=
ith gas, granades, and machine-guns, but a fight about homes, farms,=0Ascho=
ols and the soulrs of children, a struggle whose end, unlike in war, is not=
=0Aforseeable as long as the insane principle of the nationalism of the sta=
te=0Adominates the Eastern region, a struggle which goes on with one=0Aaim:=
extermination!'' &lt;ref name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=
=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span><=
/p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-U=
S">Other features of Oberl=C3=A4nder's thoughts=0Aconcentrated on depicting=
 Jews as carriers of [[communism]], and the benefits=0Aof peasant [[antisem=
itism]] to German goals in Central and Eastern=0AEurope&lt;ref name=3D"East=
wards"/&gt;.</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span sty=
le=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">His preperatory work in BDO involved=0Amonitioring o=
ver 1,200,000 Poles living in Germany, with card-name index of=0Auntrustwor=
thy Poles and Germans living in the borderlands, and proposals to=0AGermani=
se Polish place, street, and family names&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;.=
</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=
=3D"EN-US">In the summer of [[1937]] Oberl=C3=A4nder formulated=0Aa =E2=80=
=9Edivide and conquer=E2=80=9D strategy for Poland&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"GermanS=
ch"&gt;German scholars and ethnic cleansing=0A1919-1945" Ingo Haar, Michael=
 Fahlbusch Berghahn Books 2006 page 10, 12=0A&lt;/ref&gt;. </span></p>=0A=
=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">Wit=
hin Poland, ethnic groups were to be=0Adirected into fighting with each oth=
er, in order to prepare ground for German=0Arule&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/=
&gt;. The Poles were to be steered away=0Afrom opposing Germans and guided =
into confrontation with [[Russians]] and=0A[[Jews]]&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSc=
h"/&gt;. Oberl=C3=A4nder additionally called=0Afor elimination of =E2=80=9E=
assimiliated Jewry=E2=80=9D which in his view carried =E2=80=9Ecommunist=0A=
ideas=E2=80=9D&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. Polish peasants were to be =
=E2=80=9Etaught=E2=80=9D=0Athat they benefit from German =E2=80=9Elaw=E2=80=
=9D&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. </span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bot=
tom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p st=
yle=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">In order to=
 win over Poles for the side of=0AGerman [[hegemony]] in [[Europe]], Oberl=
=C3=A4nder proposed that they share in theft=0Aof Jewish property&lt;ref na=
me=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. Around 3,5 million=0APolish Jews and 1,5 million peo=
ple who were considered =E2=80=9Eassimilated Jews=E2=80=9D were=0Ato be dep=
rived of all of their rights&lt;ref name=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;.</span></p>=0A=
=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nb=
sp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" l=
ang=3D"EN-US">By 1937 Oberl=C3=A4nder however started to lose=0Ainfluence i=
n [[Nazi party]], as his views on the treatment of Polish=0Apopulation(but =
not Jewish question) were losing to more hardline=0Apositions&lt;ref name=
=3D"GermanSch"/&gt; and personal conflict with=0A[[Erich Koch]]</span></p>=
=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">=
&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Valdis"&gt;"Himmler's Auxiliaries: The Volksdeutsche=0AMi=
ttelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe,=0A1933-1945"Valdis=
 O. Lumens page 63&lt;/ref&gt;. As a result he lost his=0Aposition in East =
Prussia and within BDO by 1938&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"GermanSch"/&gt;. From 1.4.1=
938 he worked as Professor of=0AHistory at [[University of Greifswald]]&lt;=
ref name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.000=
1pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"ma=
rgin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">In 1939 Oberl=C3=A4n=
der moved to work in=0A[[Abwehrstelle Breslau]]; one of the main centers of=
 [[sabotage]] and=0A[[diversion]] organised by Nazis which conducted operat=
ions against Poland. At=0Athe same time his work concerned issues connected=
 to [[Ukraine]] and=0A[[Sudetes]] region and he had contacts with [[Osteuro=
pa Institut]] located in=0ABreslau([[Wroc=C5=82aw]])&lt;ref name=3D"Instytu=
t"&gt;"Przeglad=0AZachodni", volume 16 Instytut Zachodni 1960 page 115&lt;/=
ref&gt;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D=
"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt=
;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">=3D=3DSecond World War=3D=3D</span></p>=
=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">=
&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"=
" lang=3D"EN-US">In 1940 he endorsed [[ethnic cleansing]] of=0APolish popul=
ation[<a rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://gplanost.x-berg.=
de/sgplanost.html">http://gplanost.x-berg.de/sgplanost.html</a>], and in 19=
41 wrote=0Ain the German magazine Deutsche Monatshefte: =E2=80=9EWe have th=
e best soldier in the=0Aworld who re-conquered German soil in the East. The=
re is no bigger=0Aresponsibility than educating this colonist to be the bes=
t on earth and to=0Asecure the living space for all times to come=E2=80=9D =
Oberl=C3=A4nder's words echoed views=0Aof [[Heinrich Himmler]], who envisio=
ned settling former soldiers, armed with=0Aweapons and plows in the East, n=
ot just pure peasants</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;">=
<span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&lt;ref name=3D"Ramos"&gt;=E2=80=9DSCHWERTE=
=0AMUSS DER PFLUG FOLGEN: =C5=B0ber-peasents and National Socialists Settle=
ments in the=0AOccupied Eastern Territories during World War Two=E2=80=9D</=
span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=
=3D"EN-US">Simone C. De Santiago Ramos, M.S. Thesis=0APrepared for the Degr=
ee of Master of Arts</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><=
span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">University of Texas page 68&lt;/ref&gt; </sp=
an></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"=
EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span st=
yle=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">During 1940 he moved to [[University of=0APrague]],=
 after which he became active in [[Ukraine]], where he was used by=0ANazi G=
ermany's military as expert on =E2=80=9Eethnic psychology=E2=80=9D&lt;ref=
=0Aname=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;.</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.000=
1pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"ma=
rgin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">When Hitler [[Operat=
ion Barbarossa|invaded the=0ASoviet Union]] in 1941 Oberl=C3=A4nder became =
an adv ising officer of the=0A[[Nachtigall Battalion]] (a Ukrainian battali=
on of [[Wehrmacht]]) which=0Aoccupied [[Lviv]] in [[Ukraine]]; his position=
 was similar to that of Soviet=0A[[political commissar]]s. The patricipatio=
n of the Battalion in [[The Lviv=0ACivilian Massacre of 1941]] has since be=
en subject to controversy, and=0AOberl=C3=A4nder himself has been accused a=
fter the war in patricipating in the=0Aevents.</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"=
margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">In January 1942 he=
 sent a report on situation=0Ain Ukraine in which he wrote that success lay=
 in =E2=80=9Ewinning over the masses and=0Apitilessly exterminating partisa=
nts as deleterious to the people=E2=80=9D&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;.=
 </span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lan=
g=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><sp=
an style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">He later became the leader of the mixed German=
=0Aand Caucasian [[Sonderverband Bergmann]], which was active in anti-[[Par=
tisan=0A(military)|partisan]] warfare. Both army groups were later claimed =
to have=0Aparticipated in [[war crime]]s. Oberl=C3=A4nder's involvement in =
[[Eastern front]]=0Awould led to the Oberl=C3=A4nder case at the end of the=
 1950s&lt;ref name=3D"Schwarz"/&gt;.</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bot=
tom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p st=
yle=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">After leavi=
ng the Bergmann group in 1943 due to=0Adismissal from [[Wehrmacht]] due to =
political conflict with his superiors he=0Areturned to Prague. In 1944 he b=
ecame part of the staff of the </span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0=
..0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">Nazi controlled puppet collaborat=
ionist=0Aorganisation the [[Andrey Vlasov]]'s [[Russian Liberation Army]]&l=
t;ref=0Aname=3D"Schwarz"/&gt;. He was taken prisoner by the [[United States=
=0AArmy]] in 1945. </span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><s=
pan style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bot=
tom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">=3D=3DPolitical career after=
 Second World War=3D=3D</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;=
"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin=
-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">During his imprisonment =
U.S military secret=0Aservice appreciated Oberl=C3=A4nder's expertise in ea=
stern European topics, and he=0Awent through the [[denazification]] process=
 with ease</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=
=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In=0Apursuit of German m=
emory: history, television, and politics after=0AAuschwitz", Wulf Kansteine=
r Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;.</span></p>=0A=0A<p=
 style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</=
span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=
=3D"EN-US">After the war Oberl=C3=A4nder claimed that he=0Acriticised Nazi =
policies and he only wanted a German [[hegemony]] over [[Slavic=0Apeoples]]=
 in which they would have =E2=80=9Esome respect=E2=80=9D and were =E2=80=9E=
treated reasonably=0Ahumanly=E2=80=9D&lt;ref name=3D"Schwarz"/&gt;.</span><=
/p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-U=
S">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=
=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">Oberl=C3=A4nder again became active in German=0Apoliti=
cs, first in the liberal [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free=0ADemocrati=
c Party]], then in the [[All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and=0ADeprived=
 of Rights|Bloc of Refugees and Expellees]] (GB/BHE)(despite the=0Ahimself =
was not expelled), where he would become a major leader alongside [[=0AWald=
emar Kraft]] also a former Nazi, interned for two years for his wartime=0Aa=
ctivities in occupied Poland&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Burdens"&gt;"Shouldering the =
Burdens of Defeat: West Germany=0Aand the Reconstruction of Social Justice=
=E2=80=9D Michael L. Hughes, The University of=0ANorth Carolina Press 1999&=
lt;/ref&gt;. Many threads connected BHE to the Nazis,=0Aas it openly tried =
to win over former Nazis angry at denazification, calling=0Atheir crimes to=
 be only =E2=80=9Euncritical belief in Germany's future=E2=80=9D&lt;ref=0An=
ame=3D"Burdens"/&gt;. The party classified those Nazis on pair with=0Awar-d=
amaged as fellow victims&lt;ref name=3D"Burdens"/&gt;. The fact=0Athat the =
party selected as its leaders two former Nazis, who took part in expulsion=
=0Aand expropation of non-Germans severely undermined German complaints abo=
ut=0Atheir situation&lt;ref name=3D"World''&gt;=E2=80=9DA World at Arms: A =
Global History=0Aof World War II=E2=80=9D Gerhard L. Weinberg Cambridge Uni=
versity Press 1995 page=0A792&lt;/ref&gt;.</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"marg=
in-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=
=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">Obe=
rl=C3=A4nder joined the [[Konrad=0AAdenauer|Adenauer]] government of [[West=
 Germany]] in 1953 as Minister for=0ARefugees and Expelles&lt;ref name=3D"P=
ursuit''&gt;"In pursuit of German=0Amemory: history, television, and politi=
cs after Auschwitz", Wulf=0AKansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222=
-224 &lt;/ref&gt;.</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><sp=
an style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">His appointment prompted negative press=0Acove=
rage and made details of his Nazi past known&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Pursuit''&gt;=
"In pursuit of German memory: history, television,=0Aand politics after Aus=
chwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006=0Apage 222-224 &lt;/re=
f&gt;. But despite the fact that he nominated several=0Aformer Nazis as co-=
workers, the criticism soon died down&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pur=
suit of German memory: history, television,=0Aand politics after Auschwitz"=
, Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006=0Apage 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;. =
Adenauer in particular was keen on getting BHE on=0Aboard, as with its supp=
ort he controlled two-thirds majority in the=0Aparliament&lt;ref name=3D"Pu=
rsuit''&gt;"In pursuit of German memory:=0Ahistory, television, and politic=
s after Auschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University=0APress; 2006 page 222-=
224 &lt;/ref&gt;.Adenauer knew very well that Oberl=C3=A4nder=0Awas a Natio=
nalist Socialists and admitted he has a =E2=80=9Every brown past=E2=80=9D&l=
t;ref=0Aname=3D"Schwarz"/&gt;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0=
001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"=
margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">When Oberl=C3=A4nd=
er tried to visit his former Nazi=0Aco-workes in 1956 who still served time=
 in Landsberg prison, the foreign=0Aminister of Germany vetoed the trip, fe=
aring for international consequences,=0Aneverthless despite hinderances Obe=
rl=C3=A4nder still tried to support far right=0Agroups.&lt;ref name=3D"Lega=
cies"&gt;"Legacies of Dachau: the uses=0Aand abuses of a concentration camp=
 1933-2001=E2=80=9D=E2=80=9E Harold Marcuse Cambridge=0AUniversity Press 20=
01 page 118&lt;/ref&gt;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;=
"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin=
-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">Oberl=C3=A4nder left the=
 GB/BHE for the centre=0A[[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Christian D=
emocratic Union]] in 1956=0Awhen it broke with Adenauer. Adenauer himself c=
ontinued to support him, as a=0Amatter of principle&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit'=
'&gt;"In pursuit of German=0Amemory: history, television, and politics afte=
r Auschwitz", Wulf=0AKansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 &l=
t;/ref&gt;.</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span styl=
e=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.00=
01pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">In the fall of 1959 the [[Eastern Bl=
oc]]=0Aunleashed a coordinated campaign against existance of Nazi's in West=
 German=0Agovernment, which included Oberl=C3=A4nder. He was accused of par=
ticipating in Lviv=0AMassacre&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pursuit of Ge=
rman memory:=0Ahistory, television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kan=
steiner Ohio=0AUniversity Press; 2006 page 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;. Previously=
 he was able to=0Aremain in politics despite the accusations, but the situa=
tion this time became=0Amore unfavourable,and some of his fellow CDU colleg=
ues pushed for him to resign=0Afor the good of government and country &lt;r=
ef name=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In=0Apursuit of German memory: history, television=
, and politics after=0AAuschwitz", Wulf Kansteiner Ohio University Press; 2=
006 page 222-224=0A&lt;/ref&gt;.</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:=
0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">While many in West Germany did n=
ot believe the=0Aaccusations of war crimes, it was clear that Oberl=C3=A4nd=
er had been an=0Aenthusiastic Nazi&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pursuit =
of German=0Amemory: history, television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wul=
f=0AKansteiner Ohio University Press; 2006 page 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;, and d=
ue to=0Afact that West German community had reinvented its immage as commun=
ity of=0Ainnocent bystanders during Second World War, Oberl=C3=A4nder past =
was considered=0Aliability&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pursuit of Germa=
n memory:=0Ahistory, television, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf Kanste=
iner Ohio=0AUniversity Press; 2006 page 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;.</span></p>=0A=
=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nb=
sp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" l=
ang=3D"EN-US">A court in the [[German Democratic Republic]]=0A(East Germany=
) in 1960 sentenced Oberl=C3=A4nder, in absentia, to life imprisonment=0Afo=
r his involvement in the Lviv massacre in 1941. </span></p>=0A=0A<p style=
=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span><=
/p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-U=
S">In January 1960 during discussion with 3,000=0Astudents of [[University =
of Cologne]] Adenauer was faced with protests against=0Acontinued presence =
of Oberl=C3=A4nder in German government&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Schwarz"/&gt;. In =
responce Adenauer stated that Oberl=C3=A4nder was=0Aa Nazi but =E2=80=9Enev=
er did anything dishonourable=E2=80=9D&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Schwarz"/&gt;. Desp=
ite Adenauer's protection however Oberl=C3=A4nder=0Abecame a heavy burder f=
or the German government in May [[1960]]&lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Schwarz"/&gt; and=
 finally removed from government, but not=0Abecause of his past, but due to=
 fact that he politically represented no value=0Athat was worth trouble&lt;=
&lt;ref name=3D"Pursuit''&gt;"In pursuit of=0AGerman memory: history, telev=
ision, and politics after Auschwitz", Wulf=0AKansteiner Ohio University Pre=
ss; 2006 page 222-224 &lt;/ref&gt;.</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bott=
om:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p sty=
le=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">Oberl=C3=A4n=
der neverthless continued efforts to=0Ainfluence German public, and in 1962=
 he published an article in [[Der=0AStahlhelm]], an organ of former [[Front=
soldaten]] &lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;. In it he repeated claims abou=
t an=0A=E2=80=9Erevolutionary war=E2=80=9D in which he accused the =E2=80=
=9Edictatorship in the East=E2=80=9D of=0Aconducting an offensive revolutio=
n against the [[West]], in which there was =E2=80=9Eno=0Abeginning=E2=80=9D=
, and no movement of troops, but which was led by =E2=80=9Einflitration and=
=0Apublicism=E2=80=9D as well as =E2=80=9Eespionage=E2=80=9D &lt;ref name=
=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;. He=0Adenouced any possibility of =E2=80=9Ecoexistance=
=E2=80=9D between East and West and blamed such=0Aideas on =E2=80=9Erootles=
s intelligentsia=E2=80=9D &lt;ref name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;, =E2=80=9Eto=0Aap=
pease the enemy=E2=80=9D Oberlaner wrote was to =E2=80=9Efurther world revo=
lution=E2=80=9D &lt;ref=0Aname=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;. As historian [[Michael B=
urleigh]] notes, the=0Aidea that the =E2=80=9Eunfree=E2=80=9D perhaps didn'=
t wanted to be =E2=80=9Eliberated=E2=80=9D by the likes of=0AOberl=C3=A4nde=
r and his =E2=80=9EBund der Frontsoldaten=E2=80=9D(who passed that way twen=
ty years=0Aago)-did not occur to him &lt;ref name=3D"Eastwards"/&gt;.</span=
></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN=
-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span styl=
e=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">In 1986, Oberl=C3=A4nder received [[Bavarian Order=0A=
of Merit]] from the state of [[Bavaria]]&lt;ref name=3D"Bav''&gt;=E2=80=9DP=
roblems=0Aof Political Reeducation in West Germany, 1945-1960=E2=80=9D Mich=
ael H. Kater Simon=0AWiesenthal Center Annual Volume 4 &lt;/ref&gt;.</span>=
</p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-=
US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=
=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.000=
1pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">[[File:Oberlander1.jpg|150px|left|thu=
mb|[[KGB]]=0Adocument on action against Oberl=C3=A4nder and Ukrainian [[Nac=
htigall]]=0A([[1959]]).]]</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001p=
t;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">His conviction was squashed by a new Ge=
rman=0Acourt in 1993, which contended that the Soviet evidence had been fab=
ricated by=0Athe [[KGB]]{{Verify source|date=3DMarch 2009}}{{Fact|date=3DMa=
rch 2009}}&lt;!-- de:=0Aonly says "overturned on formal grounds", gives sch=
olarly source=0A--&gt;. At the end of his life, Oberl=C3=A4nder became expl=
icitly involved in [[far=0Aright]] and [[anti-immigration]] politics. </spa=
n></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"E=
N-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span sty=
le=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">A new case was opened against Oberl=C3=A4nder in=0A1=
996 in which he was charged with the unlawful killing of a civilian in=0A[[=
Kislovodsk]] in 1942 during his Bergmann leadership&lt;ref&gt;Der Spiegel</=
span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=
=3D"DE">18 / 1996 ''Kriegsverbrehen. Die M=C3=BChlen mahlen=0Alangsam''&lt;=
/ref&gt;. </span><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">This=0Atime it involved an=
 interrogation of female teacher, who was whipped and after=0Arefusing to t=
alk about suspected partisant activity shot in the breast by=0AOberl=C3=A4n=
der, who left her to die. Oberl=C3=A4nder called those allegations =E2=80=
=9ESoviet=0Alies=E2=80=9D.</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001=
pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"mar=
gin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">Theodor Oberl=C3=A4nd=
er died in [[Bonn]] in 1998.</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.00=
01pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"m=
argin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p>=
=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">=
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US">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style=
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ttp://zeus.zeit.de/text/2001/26/200126_a-lemberg.xml">http://zeus.zeit.de/t=
ext/2001/26/200126_a-lemberg.xml</a> Article about the events=0Ain Lviv/Lem=
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n style=3D"" lang=3D"EN-US">*=0A[<a rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank" href=
=3D"http://www.ursulahomann.de/JudenInMecklenburgVorpommern/kap005.html">ht=
tp://www.ursulahomann.de/JudenInMecklenburgVorpommern/kap005.html</a> Fate =
of=0Athe Jews in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Oberl=C3=A4nder's involvement] =
{{de icon}}</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span styl=
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n 1919-1945'' by Andreas Kossert] {{de icon}}</span></p>=0A=0A<p style=3D"m=
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ss=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"" lang=3D"DE">&nbsp;</span></p>=0A=0A<br><b=
r><div class=3D"gmail_quote">2009/8/26 Molobo Molobo <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;=
<a rel=3D"nofollow" ymailto=3D"mailto:molobus@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank" =
href=3D"/mc/compose?to=3Dmolobus@gmail.com">molobus@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span=
><br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left:1px solid rgb(2=
04, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;">=0AI completed Ob=
erlander article regarding:<br><a rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank" href=
=3D"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Oberl%C3%A4nder">http://en.wikiped=
ia.org/wiki/Theodor_Oberl%C3%A4nder</a><br><br>The article is attached in d=
oc format. It will be copied to the next email for those of you who don't u=
se mail in the discussion group. You can paste and copy it, although if you=
 want to check spelling and references formating be my guest. In one case I=
 couldn't get the reference to work properly at all and had to manually cop=
y it several times(I don't know why :/ )<br>=0A=0A<br><br>=0A</blockquote><=
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