Seit tausend Jahren singt Ostseewind,
Sudetenwind, Kar pathenwind,
Von Ostlands deutscher Herrlichkeit.
Our house is destroyed and our hearth brought low,
But, homesick or enslaved, we know
How for a thousand years the Baltic wind,
The Sudeten wind, the Carpathian wind
Sang German glory as eastward they blow.
She is even clearer in prose. She writes in an essay on “Germans Outside the Boundaries”:
“Before the War we believed that the boundaries of the German people began and ended where they were mapped out as the German State. Today we are aware that the unity and growth of a people is not dependent on its geographical borders. A German can be the citizen of a foreign state and yet, through his blood and his race and his essential manner and speech, he belongs to us.”