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<div>As regards to Professor Cumings' note below:</div>
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<div>Yes, that is right, until 1949, the year of the interview that
was the situation. That's the year when they all got imprisoned and
put away a North Korean Gulag, to Oksadôk prison camp. One of the
books I had just listed in my last posting is a record of this
imprisonment from 1949 to 1954, and about the period before that (from
1944). Both, male missionaries and nuns (e.g. Maria Gerstmayer and
Bertwina Caesar who is still alive) were imprisoned there, and some
died of permanent malnutrition and from the consequences of hard labor
with no treatment of diseases etc.</div>
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<div>Here again the book:</div>
<div>Kugelmann, Willibald, et al:<i> Schicksal in Korea: Deutsche
Missionare berichten</i>. 2nd ed., St. Ottilien: EOS-Verlag, 1974
(reprint 1992, and 3rd extended ed. 2009).</div>
<div>The new 2009 edition has new editors: Witgar Dondorfer and
Willibrord Driever.</div>
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<div>Amazon.de link to the latest, revised 3rd edition (with new
editor):</div>
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>http://www.amazon.de/Schicksal-Korea-Missionare-berichten-1944-1954/<span
></span>dp/3830674031/</div>
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<div>There are 24 eyewitness reports in this book.</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>Frank</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>In early 1949 U.S. Ambassador John Muccio
recorded a very interesting interview with one Father Hopple, of the
Wonsan Benedictine monastery; among other things Father Hopple
reported that there was little interference with their activities and
that Christian churches were still open in the North from 1945 to
1949. He also said that he and his brethren rarely came across
so-called Soviet-Koreans, and if they did they tended to come from the
Russo-Korean border area or from Manchuria. Meanwhile secret North
Korean Interior Ministry documents from November and December 1947
indicate that some 61 Germans, mostly missionaries, lived in Wonsan
and Kangwon province at the time. The Muccio interview is dated
January 6, 1949 and is in the National Archives, Diplomatic Branch,
740.0019 file, box C-215; the North Korean documents are also in the
National Archives, Record Group 242 (³Captured Enemy Documents²),
SA2005, item 6/11.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Bruce Cumings</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>University of Chicago</blockquote>
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Frank Hoffmann<br>
http://koreaweb.ws</div>
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