VISITING
AUTHOR-ARTICLE
OCTOBER
2009
The
Sunic Journal
Interview
with Hans Kopp
On Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at 9 PM Eastern US time, Dr.
Tomislav Sunic will interview Hans Kopp. As part of our series on
the campaign of ethnic cleansing against German civilians in post-WWII
E. Europe, Mr. Kopp will discuss the tribulations and suffering his
family endured as they were separated and sent to prison camps in
various countries and how they escaped and made their way to America.
It will air on the Voice
of Reason Broadcast Network (use your favorite media player to
listen in as it airs by going to the How to Listen tab in the main
page). The interview will also be archived in mp3 format for
download (free of charge) on Tom’s page at the VoR site after the show
airs.
Topics
will include:
·
Capture at age 9 and the 3 day march to prison camp with no food or
water
·
Life in a Communist death camp in Yugoslavia: starvation, one set
of clothes, hygiene & sleeping conditions, crowding, death rates in
camps, mass graves
·
Hiding from Tito’s thugs
·
Grandmother’s miraculous survival and return to the family before her
death due to injuries suffered
·
Father’s fate in Russian slave labor camp
·
Mother’s fate in Ukrainian coal mining camp (4 years)
·
Flight to Hungary, Austria, and Britain by foot and train
·
Escape to US and reunion with mother
·
Life in US: founder of US Olympic development program for
youth soccer, ski instructor, and retired mechanical engineer
·
Responsibility of Allied nations and reason for their silence
·
Popular perception of “human rights” in America
For more information, visit donauschwaben-usa.org,
where you can read an even more graphic description of the horrors
suffered by ethnic Germans in Communist death camps in Mr. Kopp’s
article, “Human
Misery: Life in a Death Camp”, and you can also read his
article on the history of the Donauschwaben, "Our
Life on Foreign Soil."
The site also contains a brief history and timeline of the Danube
Swabians. Mr. Kopp has written a book entitled The Last
Generation, Forgotten and Left to Die, which is available for $60 US.
There are only 15 copies left for distribution, so only scholars and
those deeply interested in the subject need inquire. His contact
for any questions and correspondence is hanskopp.anni@yahoo.com.
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