Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

> > Kuhn does consider it and brackets out, on the side of caution,
> > all Wend- names in Thuringia and also in Hesse. The rest
> > he views as safe. I'll get back to the article tomorrow, it's
> > getting too late for translating from German.
> >
> > Moving Wends to Western Germany I think would have made us much
> > sense to German administrators as to American administrators the
> > idea of moving the Navajo to Pennsylvania. I don't think they did
> > it.
>
> ****GK: There were Wend collaborationists. I don't see
> why Germans should automatically be exempt from a
> tactic employed in many other contexts. Only careful
> examination can tell. No a priori exclusions.****

True. Kuhn points out a couple of fun facts about the Wend- and
Welsch- names:

1) They don't overlap.

2) There aren't any in central NWBlock territory, Holland and south.

Kuhn takes 1) to mean that Wend- and Welsch- designated the same
ehtnic group. I think they may be two groups. 2) seems to mean that
whoever lived in central NWBlock they were never colonized to the
degree that their settlement stood out from the rest so much that they
were named for the ethnicity of their inhabitants.


Torsten