Monday, January 28, 2008

German Connections

Newsletter 2008/01/25 - Cultivating Relationships
BERLIN/FLENSBURG (Own report) - The German government is establishing an Internet portal to connect German-speaking minorities in Europe and Asia, thereby expanding the political manipulation of population segments of foreign countries. "Members of ethnic German minorities of one country" could more easily than ever "be linked up to German minorities of other nations" and can "cultivate intensive relations to interested parties in Germany," explained Christoph Bergner, the German government's Commissioner for Repatriation Issues and National Minorities in Germany. The German government has already initiated a special support for the German "Volksgruppen", conceived of as communities of blood-ancestry and is using them as "bridgeheads" within their respective nations, e.g. Poland, Denmark and Kazakhstan. The new internet portal is being initiated by an association that was founded in the 1950s by "Volksgruppen" experts of the 1930s. Since its inception, the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), with headquarters in Flensburg, (Schleswig-Holstein) has been confederating the ethnic minorities from all over Europe under German leadership.
The association pursues the prototype set by a predecessor organization in the period of the Weimar Republic. The chair of the association's advisory committee is an undersecretary in the Ministry of the Interior.
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