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Notes Acknowledgments 1. Walter Strauss, ed., Signs of Life: Jews from Württemberg (New York: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1982). In German: Walter Strauss, ed., Lebenszeichen: Juden aus Württemberg nach 1933 (Gerlingen: Bleicher Verlag, 1982). 2. Süssen. Ehemalige jüdische Mitbürger in Süssen. Dokumentation des Besuches vom 2.–9. Oktober 1989 in Süssen, 1989. 3. The number of extended Lang family members who were deported from Süssen is not even clear today. We do know for sure who was murdered, so that there is a final count, but the number of individuals who were actually deported from Süssen varies according to the sources. The town chronicle lists thirteen Lang family members for November 28, 1941, while the memorial plaque in the cemetery lists fourteen individuals, twelve of them Langs. In addition, it lists Falk Sahm, the Lang’s servant, who was deported earlier, and Walter Zeimann, a Jewish businessman, who also was deported earlier. A total of twelve Lang family members were murdered, plus Sahm and Zeimann, for a total of fourteen victims . If one adds Luise Ottenheimer, the total number of Jews from Süssen who were murdered by the Nazis is fifteen. Three deportees, Kurt, Siegfried, and Ruth Lang returned to Süssen in 1945. 4. Süssen, Lang Dokumentation, 97. 5. See “Lebendiges Bild von der Zeit vor unserer Zeit,” Süssen: Ortsportrait. Sonderveröffentlichung der NWZ, February 18, 1995, 4. 6. “Ehrung: Bürgermedaille für Werner Runschke: Süssener Geschichte lebendig gemacht,” Neue Württembergische Zeitung, November 25, 2006, and “Personen : Archivar Werner Runschke erhält Bürgermedaille der Stadt Süssen: Ein Fundus, den kaum jemand sieht,” Neue Württembergische Zeitung, November 23, 2006. See Suessen website, http://www.suessen.de. 7. See “The ‘Jewish Museum’ in Jebenhausen,” http://www.edjewnet.de/ jewmuseum/jmus_en.htm. 8. See “The Veterans’ Oral History Project: Interviews: Hugo Lang,” http:// web.utk.edu/~csws/interview.html. F5756.indb 299 F5756.indb 299 4/30/12 7:49:51 AM 4/30/12 7:49:51 AM 300 | Notes to pages 1–2 Introduction 1. “Hohenstaufen. Ich sah ihn fern, / Er glich dem Sarge; / Ich kam ihm nah, / Rings Grabesstille; / Ich stieg hinauf, / Zwei Genien flattern / Am Abhang nieder / Ein Totenkopf, / Ein Trauermantel.” Quoted in Walter Ziegler, Von Siezun bis Süssen. Ein Streifzug durch 900 Jahre (Süssen: Buchdruckerei Beck and Hecker, 1971), 214. 2. The region has been a virtual treasure chest of relics from ancient times. The many finds include imprints of skeletons and actual skeletons of dinosaurs, among them Plesiosaurus brachypterygius, see “Eislinger Saurier,” Neue Württembergische Zeitung, July 9, 2006, sec. “Zwischen Alb und Filstal.” In the fall of 2006 an exhibition was created in the town of Eislingen, just west of Süssen, by the regional archaeologist, Dr. Reinhard Rademacher, entitled “In An Ocean Before Our Time.” This exhibition displayed several different types of fossils from the region and reconstructed the dinosaurs of 181 million years ago in their entirety. Exhibition brochure, “In einem Meer vor unserer Zeit: Das Jurameer vor 181 Millionen Jahren .” Stadthalle Eislingen, Südwest Presse/NWZ, September 2–October 29, 2006. 3. K. Eisele, M. Köhle, Chr. Schöllkopf, eds., Geschichtliche Heimatkunde des Filsgaus, mit einem geologischen Anhang (Göppingen: Verlag von Johannes Illig, 1926), 170. See also Walter Ziegler, ed., Der Kreis Göppingen (Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag, GmbH, 1985), 20. 4. Ziegler, Kreis Göppingen, 20. 5. Ibid., 32. 6. Ibid., 43. Süssen, too, had a mineral water well for some time in the 1950s. Jebenhausen has had a continuous mineral water well since the time of the Barons of Liebenstein in the 1700s. Today only locals are allowed to harvest the water on a daily basis. Göppingen likewise owned several mineral water wells. Thermal spas abound as well, as in Bad Überkingen. The area also claims one sulphur spring, in Bad Boll, which contains many different healing properties. The source was already appreciated by Herzog Friedrich I of Württemberg (1593–1608), who had a fountain built that is still in use today. See also Paul Groschopf and Winfred Reiff, “Landschaft und Geologie,” in ibid., 17–47. 7. Ziegler, Kreis Göppingen, 46. 8. The process of Verkarstung began during the Tertiary period and continued into the Quaternary period. The precondition for Verkarstung is the existence of appropriate natural resources such as carbon dioxide gases and water-soluble stone in the form of white Jura. While...

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