Sorbian State

Mmm ... Sorbet.

But no. They're a Slavic group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs

I don't think it's plausible to give them an entire country, since they only have like 60,000 people. What about giving them control of a city, something like Danzig?

I do know who the Sorbs are... I just couldn't resist...

Anyway, I could imagine a new Sorbia on the scale of a city-state around Danzig. But wouldn't that mean the rest of Germany would have little ethnic city-states lying around?
 
The best you could do I'd think is some sort of autonomous area of Germany or Czech-whatever.
 

ninebucks

Banned
Had anyone in the USSR even heard of the Sorbs? They were a tiny ethnic minority confined to one region and consisting of a people who were mostly Germanised.

The Nazis themselves had a fairly schizophrenic policy towards the Sorbs, those that were fully Germanised were enrolled into the Wehrmacht whereas those who insisted that Sorbs were purely Slavic and detached from the German nation were sent to the camps.
 
Lusatia could be ethnically cleansed of Germans and given to Czechoslovakia.
I have even found something on wikipedia which claimed that a so called Lusatian National Committee argued for this,but I don't think it's true as I did not see it anywhere else.
 

Susano

Banned
The problem is not only are there only 60k Sorbs, they are spread out enough that there is not a single district where they form a majority. And ethnically cleansing Lusatia has the drawbakc of even more GErman refugees streaming into what was remaining of Germany, something the Western Allies REALLY wanted to avoid.
 
Had anyone in the USSR even heard of the Sorbs? They were a tiny ethnic minority confined to one region and consisting of a people who were mostly Germanised.
You have to remember that a lot of historians, philosophers and other "advisor" types who affected decision-making in USSR were educated by professors who had strong Slavophile leanings. So yes, they had been aware of Sorbs allright. Had no designs for their independence, as Sorbs are too few.
 

oberdada

Gone Fishin'
tough job, but interesting,

it could only work, if the allies treat the Germans really bad (MORGENTHAU OR WORSE) and the sorbs are pretty much left alone, or even better, given lot's of ERP money.
There is a lot of coal lying around Cottbus, or rather Chosebuz at is called in sorbian.
The danish minority in Schleswig is growing fast, because of philo-denish people, as are a lot of native american tribes.
So if becoming a sorbian and speaking the language is a way into freedom and wealth...
 
tough job, but interesting,

it could only work, if the allies treat the Germans really bad (MORGENTHAU OR WORSE) and the sorbs are pretty much left alone, or even better, given lot's of ERP money.
There is a lot of coal lying around Cottbus, or rather Chosebuz at is called in sorbian.
The danish minority in Schleswig is growing fast, because of philo-denish people, as are a lot of native american tribes.
So if becoming a sorbian and speaking the language is a way into freedom and wealth...


True, this way would work. Have Sorbian identity tied in with local identity in their area and so you get people who are actually 100% German adopting Sorbian ways so as to distance themselves from the areas where the power of centred in Germany.
 
The problem is not only are there only 60k Sorbs, they are spread out enough that there is not a single district where they form a majority. And ethnically cleansing Lusatia has the drawbakc of even more GErman refugees streaming into what was remaining of Germany, something the Western Allies REALLY wanted to avoid.
Not if they did it during late WW2. I mean, they did manage to de-Germanise Prussia, IIRC. And please tell me how it actually was if the aforemented comparison was nonsensical.
 
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