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...hilly resort island of Bornholm, a tiny speck of Denmark that rises from the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland, the crew of the Danish trawler Soraya was catching cod one March morning. As the men hauled their fish on board, Theis Branick, 24, went beneath the net to open it. When the fish spilled out onto the deck, he found the net had also caught something else - a large, yellow-brown lump of solidified mustard gas from World War II. "It was a huge piece, weighing about 15 kg, and with no traces of the metal casing," says Michael...
...information. The Ecology and Foreign Affairs committees of Russia's State Duma held joint hearings on weapons in April 2002, then recommended a program of evaluation, monitoring and forecasting. "We keep working on the issue," maintains Vladimir Mandrygin, chief of staff of the Ecology committee. "However, not all our Baltic neighbors are supportive; they would rather not talk about it. Russian scientists have been offering various projects for handling the issue, but there is no financing." As well as the potential harm to fishermen, says the panel's chairman, Vladimir Grachev, "danger is involved in laying gas pipes and communication...
...take it easy," he remembers. "And that was O.K." Shedding old habits is, in fact, one of the main challenges the new German émigrés face. "People need to learn to forget about the way things were done at home," argues Birgit Krone, the head of the Baltic Training Center, which organizes language courses and job-coaching for unemployed Germans who want to apply for jobs in Scandinavia or the Netherlands. "They should be open to the corporate culture in the countries they move to," she advises, "because they will be expected to adapt." While the exodus...
Crabwalk (Harcourt; 234 pages) tells the story of a journalist, Paul Pokriefke, who was born as his mother escaped the sinking Wilhelm Gustloff, a cruise ship carrying refugees that was sunk by a Russian submarine in the Baltic Sea in January 1945. The number of those who died will never be known, though around 7,000 seems a reasonable guess. It was the greatest disaster in maritime history...
...balanced view," he argues. The question of German victimhood has been much-discussed all year. This past spring, Nobel prizewinning novelist Günter Grass published Im Krebsgang (Crab Walk), a novella about the millions who perished on the eastern front and in particular the 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea of the Wilhelm Gustloff, when as many as 9,000 lives were lost. The debate about the novel soon centered on the political correctness of dealing in literary form with the once-taboo suffering of German wartime refugees fleeing from the Red Army. Even beyond the similar, painful debate...