Homesick

The north of Germany is full of displaced persons. Today, after thousands of years, the area around Berlin in particular is still littered with a countless community of displaced people from northern Europe. Through immense forces, large quantities of Nordic rocks were transported away from their “rightful” homeland.

The ‘Centre against Displacement’ has been in existence since 6 September 2000. It emerged from the efforts of the Association of Expellees. With Erika Steinbach and Peter Glotz at the helm, these people are trying to set up a platform with which they can “counteract, outlaw and prevent the expulsion of peoples worldwide in order to serve international understanding, reconciliation and the peaceful neighbourhood of peoples”. But if you take a closer look, it is much more about the “original” rights of German minorities, against the “injustice” decrees of the Poles and Czechs and the rehabilitation of the resettled Germans with all the consequences. Quote: “Victims must not be disregarded, they must be put “in the right” in a civilised world!” It is not about accusation, it is about reparation. - Johann Böhm, member of the Bavarian state parliament, spokesman for the Sudeten German ethnic group, with the solidarity of the Landsmannschaft.”

The consistent underestimation of historical facts is what makes this exposing German behaviour so frightening now that the Preussische Treuhand is bringing a class action suit against Poland. If these comrades hope to soon succeed in “transforming the German society of perpetrators into a national collective of victims” (Erich Später, in: konkret), perhaps it will soon be possible to grant all other “victims” their rights.

The “Homesick” campaign symbolically and practically promotes this endeavour to make amends, exemplified by the displaced persons from Northern Europe. The first resettlers of foundlings have already been allowed to start their journey home to the north.

The contradiction between the historically legitimised preservation of vested rights, established with the help of conclusive evidence in the form of archaeological finds, historical documents and even ideologically distorted claims, and the “original homeland”, which will always remain untraceable, is taken up and reduced to absurdity using a “geological parable”.

In 200 million years, if the earth should still exist at all, the Mediterranean region will have been largely folded into a mountain range, the Baltic Sea will have become dry land through uplift and Western Europe will be separated from Central Europe by a sea in the Rhone Valley - Rhine Valley subsidence area.

The landscape shown in the picture would then lie in the depths of the North Sea, covered by sediments.