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From: "dave demick" <>
Subject: Re: [S-H-RTS] Killings in the 1880???
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 19:52:13 -0700
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My great great grandfather supposedly came here with his sons because he did
not want them to serve in the army. His wife and daughter followed later, I
think in the late 1870's. I am not sure how much earlier the men came.
Margaret
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Subject: Re: [S-H-RTS] Killings in the 1880???


> > the German Army which utilized young men as cannon fodder.
> >
> > I would appreciate hearing from you and from others..
> >
> >
>
> I would not say they used them as cannon fodder, but I also know from my
own
> family that many Schleswig-Holsteiner left their country after the
> danish-prussian/austrian war. While S-H. belonged to Danmark they could
pay for
> not becoming a soldier, but after S-H became fully a prussian province
every
> young man had to serve in the army. My gggrandfather was born in the 1850s
but
> left Sylt in the 1860s for the reason above. He lived and married in San
> Francisco.
> As he became very ill, he came back 1890 and left his daughter on the
island. He
> was forced (friendly) to leave because he did not serve in the army and
died a
> few years later.
> M.Lewerenz
>

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