Bernhard Fisch

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Bernhard Fisch
Non-fiction writer
SubjectNemmersdorf massacre

Bernhard Fisch (22 August 1926 – 18 November 2020) was a German writer.

Life

German victims of the Nemmersdorf massacre, Fisch's main topic of interest

Fisch was born in

Second World War he was drafted to the Wehrmacht and fought in East Prussia and in Upper Bavaria. He was wounded and became prisoner of war
.

In 1945, his family had to leave their home due to

Erweiterte Oberschule[1] in Suhl until 1957. Having been married in 1950, he has a daughter and two grandchildren, who have been living since 1958 in Stadtroda. He studied pedagogy and slavic studies, graduated Ph. D. (Dr. paed.), published about methods of teaching foreign languages[2] and was a scientific assistant for six years in Gera
.

In the 1970s, he developed an interest in East Prussian history and the expulsions, both being considered taboo in the GDR. At a 2004 conference of communists in Thuringia, he presented a book of 1945, containing pictures of the East Prussian landscape, which had to be published without any geographic names, as these were banned by censors. There, he also stated that while spending 10 months at the

Bund der Vertriebenen
where he found no majority for his views.

In 1990, the year the GDR was dissolved in favor of

.

Fisch died in Stadtroda in November 2020 at the age of 94.[7][8]

Works

  • Bernhard Fisch: Nemmersdorf 1944 – ein bisher unbekanntes zeitnahes Zeugnis. In: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung Bd. 56 H. 1 (2007), S. 105–114 (online).
  • Bernhard Fisch: Nemmersdorf 1944 – nach wie vor ungeklärt. S. 155–167. In: Orte des Grauens. Verbrechen im Zweiten Weltkrieg, Hrsg. Gerd R. Ueberschär, Primus-Verlag (online Archived 2008-07-03 at the Wayback Machine), Darmstadt 2003. (at gleich-lesen.de online; Rezension[permanent dead link].)
  • Bernhard Fisch: Was haben die Augenzeugen wirklich gesehen? Erfahrungsbericht über die Quellen zu den Ereignissen im ostpreußischen Nemmersdorf am 21. und 22. Oktober 1944. In: Bulletin für Faschismus- und Weltkriegsforschung H. 12 (1999), 30–65 [1] [2]
  • Bernhard Fisch: Ubej! Töte! Zur Rolle von Ilja Ehrenburgs Flugblättern in den Jahren 1944/45. In: Geschichte – Erziehung – Politik. Bd. 8 (1997), S. 22–27, 5 Abb.
  • Bernhard Fisch: Nemmersdorf, Oktober 1944. Was in Ostpreußen tatsächlich geschah., Mit einem Nachw. von
  • Bernhard Fisch: Stalin und die Oder-Neiße-Grenze, Helle Panke, Berlin 2000
  • Bernhard Fisch: Die Striche des Josef W. Stalin. Vom Anteil der Kommunisten an der Vertreibung der Deutschen aus Ostmitteleuropa,

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