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„Repatriation“ of Baltic germanies after pacts: new german demografical policy or implementatin of earlier formed plans

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2000
In his speech in October 1939 in Reichstag, Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler described the reorganisation of the ethnographic situation in Eastern Europe as “one of the most important tasks”.
Karlis Kangeris
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The Battle for Hearts and Minds: The Struggle for Power in Latvia in Early 1919

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis
In early 1919, Courland, which had already been semi-abandoned during the First World War, turned into an area of the Baltic region where at least four political agendas, and, in many cases, the military forces that supported them, clashed.
Kārlis Dambītis
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The Basic Non-violence Resistance Forms and Hidden Nationalism as Inner Insubordination to the Soviet Regime in Latvia in seventies and eighties

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 1997
The non–violent resistance to the Soviet dictatorship by various national groups in Latvia had common and different features. For Latvians, the idea of Latvian independence was the most important, whereas for Jews and Germans the most important was the ...
Indulis Zalite
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Baltic German and Baltic German Literature. Language History and Autobiographical Writing from Transnational and Regional Perspective

This DMP is developed in the framework of the project "Baltic German and Baltic German Literature" (lzp-2025/1-0170). The aim of the project is to complete the history of the Baltic Germans both in the Baltic and German cultural context. While the linguistic part connects conceptual novelty with a modern approach to the language history, highlighting ...
Ineta Balode, Arturs Svarinskis
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Mõrtsukatöö Liiva järvel

Keel ja Kirjandus
Renowned Estonian novelist Karl Ristikivi published a gothic short story titled Luige­laul (“Swansong”) in 1968, drawing inspiration from a true event from the Baltic Middle Ages.
Juhan Kreem
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A Study of the Rich History of the Baltic Sea Countries

Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2016
The article in memory of Professor Tadeusz Poklewski-Koziełł gives an outline of the history of the Baltic Sea and the surrounding states with the sea as a unifying and sometimes separating element.
Sven Ekdahl
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Natsional'nye chasti Estonskoi armii i natsional'nye men'shinstva v voine za nezavisimost' Estonii v 1918–1920 gg. | National Minorities and National Units in the Estonian Army during the Estonian War of Independence, 1918–1920

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2018
The article analyses issues related to the participation of national minorities in the Estonian War of Independence of 1918–1920. Due to the low numbers of national minorities, they were not treated as a serious problem in the Republic of Estonia during ...
Igor Kopõtin
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DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY OF LEECHES (HIRUDINEA) IN BRACKISH WATERS OF THE GERMAN BALTIC

Ecologica Montenegrina, 2015
The knowledge about records of leeches (Hirudinea) in Baltic brackish waters of north-east Germany (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania) will be summarized. Observations were made from estuaries of rivers (Stepenitz and Warnow) and lagoons (Darss-Zingst, Stettin) as well in Baltic offshore waters (especially at the Adlergrund/Rønnebank).
Jueg, Uwe, Zettler, Michael L.
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Volk, Jew and Devil: Ironic Inversion in Günter Grass's Dog Years

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1978
As Edward Diller pointed out in A Mythic Journey: Günter Grass's Tin Drum , the author of the Baltic Trilogy employs elements of myth and of the marvellous not only to give his stories local color, but also to establish patterns of symbolism.
Lyle H. Smith Jr.
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The Baltic Timber Trade and the Port of Riga: Economic Empowerment of Middlemen and New Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia’s Western Provinces (1860s to 1914)

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte
The article discusses the advancement of timber traders and former middlemen in Riga’s timber trade during the second half of the 19th and early 20th century.
Wezel Katja
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