Macedonia History

 A German historian, who later drifted into Nazi ideology, compared the defeatet Germany after World War I, to ancient Macedonia in a inflammatory pamphlet against the Americans in the 1920s. The author Joachim Riecker describes this fact in his work: "The secret of freedom is courage: ancient role models in American foreign policy from Theodore Roosevelt to Bill Clinton" (Das Geheimnis der Freiheit ist Mut: antike Vorbilder in der amerikanischen Außenpolitik von Theodore Roosevelt bis Bill Clinton). But first, we take a look about the historian mentioned in the work of Riecker who wrote the anti-American polemics, his name was Ulrich Kahrstedt (excerpts from german Wikipedia). Ulrich Kahrstedt (born April 27, 1888 in Neisse/Silesia; died January 27, 1962 in Göttingen) was a German historian of ancients. After the First World War, in which he was briefly a soldier, from 1916 a civil servant in the War Ministry, he worked full-time for the newly founded DNVP. In 1921 he was a...

The work "Der Balkan. Seine Länder und Völker in Geschichte, Kultur, Politik, Volkswirtschaft, und Weltverkehr" (The Balkans. Its Countries and Peoples in History, Culture, Politics, Economics and World Transport) by german linguist Albrecht Wirth dates from 1914. Published in Stuttgart (Germany) in the first year of the First World War in 1914, this work was more or less a universal encyclopedia in written format. With important informations about the history of the Balkans and its inhabitants. On page 214, Wirth describes the South Slavs, and there we read: Ursprünglich gibt es zwei große Zweige der Südslawen: Serben und Slowenen; dann könnten allenfalls die Mazedonier als eigener Stamm gelten. Durch Mischung der Slowenen mit einem awarischen Volk entstanden die Bulgaren. [English] Originally there are two big branches of the south Slavic people, Serbians and Slovenians, then at most the Macedonians could be seen as a own branch. Through a mix between the Slovenians and an ...

The Hellenic army is burning all slavophonic villages and kills all slavophones it captures! It can be seen from the letters by Greek soldiers sent from the front the horror that the Macedonian population in the towns and villages under Greek occupation faced. The bloody collection of about hundred letters should have been delivered to the addresses through the Greek Army’s military post office, but after it was captured by the Bulgarian Army in Razlog on 14 July 1913, the letters were made public. It is a fearsome collection of authentic testimonies that were taken to the State Archives in Sofia in 1913, as Ljubomir Miletic PhD claims. In those letters, the Greek soldiers bragged to their relatives and friends that they hadn’t left a single Slavophone alive wherever they went, that they had raped all the Slavic Macedonian women and that they had burned all the Slavophonic villages. One hundred years ago After the Ottoman army left Macedonia, Serbs, Bulgarians and Greeks wante...

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