Translations of letters, church, and civil documents in the Old German Script. 

For the remaining few of us in the U.S. and in Germany who have learned the script in  elementary school, used it  in high school, and for many years thereafter in daily communication, deciphering and translating letters and emigration records in the Old German Script are still  enjoyable tasks.

       We work as a team if the level of difficulty demands it, but all work is checked by another specialist to ensure the highest level of accuracy.

Translators, genealogists, and private institutions alike patronize our 40 years of experience of working with handwritten documents in the Old German Script. 

                                                                                        

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Answer: The fate of the 9.1 million residents of Silesia, East Prussia, West Prussia, and East Pomerania had never been nationally discussed in Germany until the news magazine "Der Spiegel" (# 13-15, 2002) reached a wide audience with a series of articles.  What happened? 

The residents of these provinces had to flee ahead of the Red Army in the winter of 1944/1945.  Researchers of the Federal Archives counted 3,300 locations at which 120,000 German civilians were either shot or beaten to death. However, in the 1950's the Federal Office of Statistics could not account for two (2) million residents of these territories.(1978/79)    

The exact number of civilian casualties may never be established. We find that this number is used most frequently. Alone of the 4.5 million residents of Silesia almost 400,000 died during or shortly thereafter because of the expulsion. (Federal Association of Refugees)