The Muslim Assault on Germany By Paul R. Hollrah

In the small village of Hahlen, in the German State of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), church records from the 4th and 5th centuries indicate the presence of a family named “Hole den Rahen,” (“Hole” meaning, “give me,” and “den rahen” meaning “the fields” or “meadows”). Hence, the early German name “Holrahen,” meaning, “give me new land.”

Through the centuries the name was shortened to “Holrahe” and later to “Holrah.” A spelling error by either a quartermaster or a paymaster during the American Civil War added an additional “l” to the middle of the name, and it has been “Hollrah” ever since.

I only mention the roots of my family name because it can be traced back to a time in northwestern Germany at least a hundred years before the Prophet Muhammad was born in Mecca, in northern Arabia, in the year 570 AD.

The lands that my Saxon forbears occupied were marshy and not suitable for cultivation. Huge peat bogs stretched for miles, but the industrious Saxons cleared the arable lands and drained the marshes, using drainage canals and terracing. My people have been living on those lands for more than 1,500 years, since before Muhammad was born, and now his followers want to take it away from them.

One farm, near the village of Menslage, has been in my family, continuously, since the year 1245. I have visited those places on two occasions and on each visit I have been overwhelmed by the thought of my great-great-grandfather and my 10-year-old great-grandfather walking away from their home, with only the clothes on their backs and their few possessions in hand, seeking a better life in America.

Germany is the seat of the Protestant Reformation, and with the exception of the years that encompass the Nazi era of the 1930s and 40s, and the years of communist domination of East Germany during the Cold War, Germany has always been a devoutly Christian nation. Moreover, no nation has contributed more to the arts, to science, to religion, to philosophy, to the expansion of human knowledge, than have the Germans.

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