german Coal Miners in Ukraine

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egmar
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german Coal Miners in Ukraine

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Post by egmar » 16 Feb 2014, 18:14

Searching for Info re german Coal Mine Workers who moved to Ukraine in Search of Work between 1918 and 1933: some of them returned after 1933 while others stayed in the Ukraine:
what is their Fate? Were they killed by Stalin in Holodomor before 1941, or forcemoved to Siberia like the german Farmers living since Centuries in the Stalingrad Region ("Wolgadeutsche"), or were there Survivors left in the Ukraine which may have assisted German Troops from 1941? If the latter, did some of them return to Germany until 1945, and if Yes given that some of them might have ended up in later D"D"R could they survive there freely, or have they be killed by Ulbricht Regime or thrown into communistic Forced Labor Camps or Prisons such as Bautzen and died there?

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GregSingh
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Re: german Coal Miners in Ukraine

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Post by GregSingh » 08 Mar 2014, 05:59

You mentioned several, quite probable scenarios...
Here is one not considered so far and a real life example of a German coal miner in the Ukraine... :)
Gottfried Grünberg


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Re: german Coal Miners in Ukraine

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Post by ML59 » 08 Mar 2014, 16:12

Nice to know. Amazing how he was lucky enough to escape the Great Terror unscathed.

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Re: german Coal Miners in Ukraine

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Post by Granite » 10 Mar 2014, 10:24

I do not know much about this topic, but i find it interesting, i would like to learn more. I have some stories from my grandmother on tape, and one in particular, mentions working for German engineers in south east Ukraine in 1932. I do not know if they worked in coal mining or some other industry but it was an interesting little slice of life from the times. I can tell you what the evening of dec .24 1932 was like for the German engineers during the Holodomor, if you want.

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