German World Alliance / Deutsche Weltallianz

Wartime Treatment Study Act reintroduced on June 30, 2005
The Wartime Treatment Study Act was reintroduced on June 30 in both the Senate (S. 1354) and House (HR 3198). Joining Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) in the Senate were Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Joe Lieberman (D-CT), Jon Corzine (D-NJ) and Ron Wyden (D-OR). In House, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) was joined by Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Raul Grijalva (D-AZ).

Anna Tuerr Memorial
Official Dedication of the Monument in Mannheim (Ontario) June 26, 2005
Speech delivered on Behalf of the German Canadian Congress (Ontario) on the Occasion of the Official Dedication of the Monument in Anna Tuerr Memorial Park, in Mannheim (Ontario) June 26, 2005
by Dr. Ulrich Frisse, LL.M.
President-Elect of the German Canadian Congress (Ontario)

Vienna/ Bonn, June 7, 2005/GE
Czech Republic justifies expulsion
President Klaus - a slap in the face for Europe
The President of the Federation of the Expelled (Bund der Vertriebenen), Erika Steinbach MdB, made the following decleration in response to a comment made by President Vaclav Klaus to Mlada Fronta Dnes, in which he called the expulsion of 3 million Sudeten Germans a "preventative step to avoid another War" and "the punishment of the guilty":

World Refugee Day
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has designated June 20th, 2005 as International Refugee Day, a day to rerflect on the situtation of some twenty million human beings who today suffer homelessness as refugees or internally displaced persons, whose human rights are continuously violated and who remain exposed to grave dangers even to their survival.

May 5, 2005
Internment of German American Civilians
On May 31, at 1:00 PM " The Internment of German American Civilians" will be presented by retired Major, US Air Force, Arthur D.Jacobs and Eberhard Fuhr who was interned by the USA from March 1943 until September 1947. Presented in Gallery 227 at the Art Institute located on Michigan Ave in downtown Chicago.

Friday, May 27, 2005
Asylum is granted
SEATTLE -- Standing in front of a bank of elevators on the 16th floor of a Seattle office building, a group of Walla Walla residents linked hands and bowed their heads. "Dear God", prayed 5-year-old Lydia Tupper, "Thank you for letting Katya and Vladimir stay.""Dear God,'" prayed 5-year-old Lydia Tupper, "Thank you for letting Katya and Vladimir stay."

February 12, 2005
GWA Press Release
Sixty years ago, on the night of 13 to 14 February 1945, thousand-bomber Anglo-American swarms firebombed Dresden, a city with no significant military targets, located at the time of the attack hundreds of miles away from the front. More than 100,000 civilians perished, including many Silesians who had fled toward Saxony, trying to escape the onslaught of the Red Army.

Press Release April 29, 2005
GWA condemns Sen. Grassley's Anti-German Actions
As reported in the April 29th issue of the Washington Post, Sen. Chuck Grassley (Rep.-Iowa) has intervened to prevent the participation of Joseph Schmitz, Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense, in this weekend’s Potsdam commemoration of the 250th anniversary ...

January 26, 2005
Books to recommend to local libraries (doc, 50 K) This list of books (in English) was recommended by members of the GWA_discussion group on various topics: German-American Internment, German-Russian Deportation and the Expulsion. Members are encouraged to ask that their public libraries purchase the books for their permanent collections, so that knowledge about these topics would be spread in the general population.

January 26, 2005
National German Heritage Month
Individuals are encouraged to write letters to their congresspersons to encourage the establishment of a National German Heritage Month. Please see suggestions below. Sample letter to download (doc)
House of Representatives web site with contact information, Alphabetical.
By State. Find Your Representative
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German World Alliance
Press Release
For imitate Publication

(Arlington Feb. 14 2006) The German World Alliance/Deutsche Weltallianz, the world's largest international human rights organization, protecting the rights of Germans, is proud to announce that the "Verband der deutschen Sozial-Kulturellen Gesellschaften" in Polen, the umbrella organization of the German ethnic group in Poland, with 10 constituent organizations and 800,000 members, has joined the GWA/DWA network.

The expansion of GWA/DWA into Poland, a country in which the German element has a long history of struggle for recognition, is a major success for the GWA/DWA and for Germans everywhere.  The application by the "Verband der deutschen Sozial - Kulturellen Gesellschaften" in Polen follows the joining, in 2005, of the Deutsche Volksverband, the organization of Germans in Serbia with its headquarters in Subotica/Maria Theresiopel....more     Deutsche Version

February 17, 2006
Request for Help finding Interview with East German

My name is Denise Schreiner and I'm a producer for a new public radio program called The Story with Dick Gordon. Dick was formerly the host of The Connection, a national broadcast from Boston.

What The Story aims to do is bring listeners the voices of people not normally heard...those with first hand experiences and a personal investment in stories; not the usual experts, pundits and academics...

January 4, 2006
Ohio town rallies behind German student facing deportation

*GILBOA, Ohio (AP) -- High school student Manuel Bartsch is facing deportation to his native Germany after discovering that his American step-grandfather never completed paperwork eight years ago to make his stay legal in the United States.***

Bartsch, who has been jailed since Christmas, is set to appear at a bail hearing Wednesday in a Cleveland federal court. ....

December 9, 2005
HUMAN RIGHTS DAY DECLARATION

The German World Alliance strongly supports the efforts of the United Nations and of civil society to promote and protect human rights throughout the world.

GWA firmly believes that equality is the over-arching principle of human rights. God created all men and women of all races and all religions equal in their human dignity. The GWA believes that if governments and private individuals would simply respect each other and treat others as themselves, there would be no wars, no war crimes, no genocide, no terrorism....more

Anna Tuerr Monument Speech delivered on Behalf of the German Canadian Congress (Ontario) on the Occasion of the Official Dedication of the Monument in Anna Tuerr Memorial Park, in Mannheim (Ontario) June 26, 2005
by Dr. Ulrich Frisse, LL.M.
President-Elect of the German Canadian Congress (Ontario)

GWA Press Release December 10, 2004
Human Rights Day
The German World Alliance joins civil society in all countries and in particular the NGO community and other human rights agencies in celebrating International Human Rights Day and reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of December 10, 1948.

GWA would like to identify two primary objectives of this international day of remembrance and action:

The Other Side:
Patterns of Remembering and Forgetting by World War Two German Expellees
Description of a research project conducted by Andreas Kitzmann, York University. Includes an invitation to participate in the project.

GWA Press Release December 14, 2004
Turkey must recognize the Armenian Genocide
The German World Alliance endorses the position of the Government of France in urging Turkey to recognize the genocidal acts committed by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians during World War I.

GWA Press Release September 14, 2004
International Human Rights Organization Meets in Kitchener-Waterloo(Canada)
On September 10th, the German World Alliance (Deutsche Weltallianz) held its 2004 annual meeting which was hosted by the German-Canadian Congress (DKK) in the Concordia Club in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada.

March 11, 2003
The German World Alliance was incorporated as a not for profit corporation under the laws of the District of Columbia on March 11, 2003.

GWA Press Release March 3, 2003
State Department takes its Responsibility seriously to assist German-Americans in filing Claims in Croatia
In a letter to German World Alliance board member, Dr. Marianne Bouvier, the State Department’s Director of South Central European Affairs, Mr. Paul Jones, stated that the U.S. State Department “takes seriously its responsibility to assist Americans to file claims in Croatia.”

February 6, 2003
National Day of Remembrance in the United States
Congressman Michael Honda (CA) has introduced a House Resolution "H. Res. 56" to honor the efforts of organizations and individuals who recognize February 19th as a day of reflection of the treatment of Japanese, German and Italian Americans during World War II. Executive Order (E.O.) 9066 was signed on February 19, 1942, which allowed for the exclusion of individuals deemed 'alien enemy.'

September 21, 2002
The founding meeting for the German World Alliance (GWA) is held in Washington, DC, on September 21, 2002. The founding member organizations are:

• German-Canadian Congress
  
• Donauschwaben of New York State (Danube Swabian Aid and Youth Society of New York)
  
• Institute for German-American Relations (IGAR)
  
• Captive Nations Committe