Subject: Re: What is an enclave<br/>
Date: Nov 05, 2001 @ 22:55<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-774673944">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@h...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; & peter if you really dont like booze & cant stop it<br/>
&gt; i would be afraid<br/>
&gt; but i know you are only teasing us<br/>
&gt; exquisitely as usual<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Luckily you know, otherwise I would say: don&#39;t be afraid...<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; &  w h a t<br/>
&gt; did you just say you stood corrected on<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Not yet, not yet. I was saying that between 1949 and 1963, the West <br/>
Selfkant area was a part of the Netherlands, but not a municipality. <br/>
I think I read somewhere that the head of the area, the so-called <br/>
landdrost (a bit of a strange and ancient-sounding title to us Dutch) <br/>
had to report to the province of Limburg. This might not have been <br/>
the case. So I&#39;m hoping for some more info on the administrative <br/>
situation back then. I know for instance that the inhabitants <br/>
remained Germans, but that they got a stamp in their passport that <br/>
read &quot;being treated as Dutchman&quot;. They were afraid they would be <br/>
drafted in the army to go to the Dutch East Indies which at that time <br/>
were in the (bloody) process of becoming Indonesia, but as only Dutch <br/>
citizens could be drafted, and not &quot;Germans treated as Dutchmen&quot;, <br/>
they had nothing to fear. It would have been strange for these people <br/>
to defend the colonies of a country that four years before had been <br/>
occupied by themselves...<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>