RE: [Cz-L] Our love for Czernowitz

Berti....some bits are true,others are gross exaggerations. All the main
roads were cobbled by the Austrians,the municipality were probably no better
or worse than others;most of these complaints were likely due to the
stultifying influence of the Romanian corrupt administration.And of course
both the Jews and the German farmers spoke German,plus Yiddish in the case
of the Jews. Timisoara in those days was certainly not better.And Jews in
large numbers will always argue and shout....so what???? Cornel

-----Original Message-----
From: Berti Glaubach [mailto:berti.glaubach_at_gmail.com]
Sent: 14 August 2012 10:29
To: cornelRomanianfleming
Cc: HARDY BREIER; Miriam Taylor; CZERNOWITZ-L
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Our love for Czernowitz

Reading daily "Der Tag" from 1933/4 one is amazed about the non stop
critique Hugo Gold and Alia have about the physical condition the
streets of Cz. are in, the neglect of the municipality of the water
pipes, the non respecting of privacy by shouting, loud music,
unacceptable street noise, bad electric supply, bad behavior of most
citizens, neglect by central government (Bucuresti) of this specific
province and town, discrimination against foreign language speakers
(mostly German) in offices, schools and even on the streets. The image
of Cz. is one far worse than that of other towns like Timisoara etc.
and the comparisons made on a nearly weekly basis by the newspaper.

Putting aside our idealizations on one side and the natural function
of a critical newspaper that as we know until to-day will exaggerate
whenever possible any bad reality on the other, I think that part of
the difference is explainable by the changes that occurred during the
1930th. Czernowitz suffered in WWI three occupations, was then
neglected by the new Romanian administration, had may be an uplift
from 1925 to 1929 and then the general economic crisis from1929 t0
1933. Only in 1934 things got better and we naturally remember the
town as it was in this second part of the 30th. For us the streets
were already paved etc.....

The next phase was of course a turn to the worse...
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