early as the late 18th Century it has in Germany, where integration objectors who insisted to remain in their parallel societies and learning the German language to be useless held. However, were not then from the Muslim countries, but there were Protestants from Bohemia (now Czech Republic). And because there was no satellite TV and not in the language of the mother country gave printed newspapers, the integration of objectors were long a losing battle - at some point the children could only German, even if the bohemian soul of the father's generation still hurt so much.
From such a case, reported the ex-student, master's and later a soldier in the Prussian army, Friedrich Christian Laukhard in his autobiography "Life and Fate" , one of the highest-ranking sources of history of everyday life of ordinary people in the age of enlightened absolutism.
Laukhard is 1790 mobilized as a soldier for the war against Austria and marched into Silesia:
"Our march was over Berlin, or rather in Berlin, we should to kantonieren to further order, and so was our next night's lodging in Nowaweß, a Bohemian colonists village near Potsdam. I stayed at the school master, who was also an Kattunweber. The man complained much about the decline of the Bohemian language in the village, so that the youth did not want to learn more bohemian, the Bohemian books are no longer understanding, and that people do not even Bohemian sermons longer required, everything should go to German. I introduced the man that it was great nonsense to try to continue in the middle of Germany nor the Bohemian language among the common people, then people might learn something else more useful. But because 'I had the Lord's favor schoolmaster had! He maintained the excellence of his language above all others, and as I was further refuted, he was rude, and I had to avoid quarrels, give the master and be silent. He said after one of my comrades, I was a super smart guy, who heard the grass grow. - Good heavens
In my printed GDR issue, 1989 published! Köhler & Amelio seemed missing, the way a passage in the Laukhard after further march towards Silesia on the Oder reported how, at Trebbin a farmer tells of the horrors that the Russians have perpetrated in the Seven Years' War:
"To Trebbin, a village near Frankfurt, I was able to field over look where aforetime Frederick II the uninvited guests, the Russians, partly held together, partly blown up or did. My host had been present at this human slaughter and could tell many particularities of it. He spoke of the Russians very humiliating and cited many examples of atrocities, which they had committed in those areas. They used to only one thing to lead, to wrap the hair of women and girls to their swords, and after that the poor creatures of the sword means to be attached to the earth and in this way their bestial lust undisturbed to breastfeed. The Russian officers allowed all this and laughing at the actions of the compatriot depressed. But just continue their shame is up to the last day. The enemy is after all foes, but he will not forget the humanity, and people will praise and honor him! "
The paragraph on page 126 of the said edition omitted easily. From Leopold pillar, reminiscent of Leopold of Brunswick it goes straight to the village Dittersbach at Sagan. And yet the editor Karl Wolfgang Becker founded in his "Weimar, April 1988" dated postscript publishing the Laukhardschen writing including this:
"Laukhard describes the war and the whole environment of the war with such brutal accuracy, that he still abhorrence of the scourge of humanity awakened. He also knew that earned on the war, only a small upper class, the bulk of the population but suffer miserably. "
But this suffering could be precisely described only as brutal accurate when it was caused by Prussian, French and Austrian soldiers. Raping Russians were allowed to be mentioned in 1988 are still not in the GDR, even if their actions were back 200 years. So far the Katzbuckelei went to the "friends" until one year before the collapse of that - sorry - shit State.
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