--- Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Chris Doss wrote about the Crimean Nazi
> collaborators,
>
> Amongst other amazing things, this ironic, Freudian
> translation slip:
> "have gathered to be mobilized" should be "have
> gathered to be pray."
> ***********************
>
> Thanks for posting those translations from 1942 and
> 1944, Tovarich Doss!
Spasibo tebe! Indeed, the Crimean Tatars, despite the oaths of fealty of the collaborators, would have ultimately become prey, much like the various Ukrainians, Chechens, Cossacks, Latvians, Kalmyks and so forth who went over to the Nazis and whom the latter regarded as Untermenschen (OK, technically the Nazis didn't regard Latvians as Untermenschen, but well below the exalted status of Aryans). Although the Nazis made noises sometimes to the Tatars, sometimes to Turkey, and sometimes to Italy that Crimea would be handled over to them, in fact Hitler planned on cleansing the entire territory, resettling it with Germans, and making it into a "German Riviera." He wanted to rename it Gietenland. Simferopol was going to be renamed Gietenburg, and Sevastopol Teodorichshafen.
Ironically, the first group to be deported by Stalin, the Volga Germans (http://www.volgagermans.net/volgagermans/Volga%20German%20Deportation.htm ), never engaged in any collaboration. They didn't have time -- they were deported as a potential first column inside the USSR.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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