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Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

As far as I am aware the English bare no ill feeling towards the Germans.

FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)

Wecandopenaltiesandyounot!
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

And Germany is president of the EU....what better opportunity for the country to show the world that it is positive and progressive....concerned for the welfare of all....

Let's wait and see how she does with all this.....

I think Mrs. Merkel did quite all right...but since today Portugal has the presidency of the EU for the next 6 months...
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

The Germans seem not to understand the role that Britain has been playing in Europe since the 18th century:

Oh...we understand quite well...just people who think for example Germany was the lone guilty for WWI would buy all that british propaganda from a "belligerent", "warmongering" german nation...making trouble "since ages"....but we all know better, don't we!

But now it's another time anyway....Germany is re-unificated and more powerful than ever and GB (and France) lost their empire...

Brat, what must be done to get this little chip off your shoulder? :)

Hey...it's not me who is coming with "Nazi" all the time...even my avatars get attacked!!! :(
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

The British are and will always be one the the best nations in the world, lets face it we owned a 1/3 of the world at one point! And everyone seems to want to live in the UK!

Curious! When Germans would say that they would get "Nazis" hurled at them....it's no fair! *snif*
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

you forgot to mention the Dutch, they to had their empire too.

Yes, they did too...and I'm not interested to make you feel bad about your past.
Germans and Brits weren't natural enemies, we even fighted together against the French.
But somehow all that got buried in the history of WWII....

Actually, I think it was the greatest.

That is really interesting..you are demonizing so easily Germany and the Germans but are quite generous to others who were even more prone to use their armed forces to get what they wanted?
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

Butty, yes, in the Thirty Years War you were definitely victims. But it wasn't us who mistreated you.

I never said you were! *sigh*

But I still don't know where this "since ages" comes from?
After the destruction of the Holy roman empire of the german nation (since the death of Charlemagne actually) Germany was splitted into sometimes more than 500 little statelets...hardly threatening, weren't they?

It was Great Britain and France who did build up huge empires through war, not Germany!
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

Puzzler...

I think you have a myopic view on german history!

Compared with other countries we had ONE really bad deed in 2000 years (WWII), we surely weren't the bad guys "since ages".
Everything else is nothing out of the normal....

Quite to the contrary...we were often enough victims ourself like in the thirty years war or the napoleonic wars...
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

The only thing you can do, as an Ammie (or any nationality), is check out as many news sources as possible (including foreign) and compare notes, taking into consideration the source of the info....and consider what is to be gained by whom for the particular "spin" on the information

I observed over the years that (especially afte 9/11 and at the building up to the Iraq war) many otherwise intelligent, charming, likeable people became thin skinned nationalists who reacted to EVERY critic at Bush or his policy as if attacked personally and lashed back out, declaring friends to enemies.

"You are either with us or against us!"
Just recently things seem to loosen up again...
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

Actually...even the names "Democrats" and "Republicans" are misleading for Europeans...they don't mean the same here...it's really confusing! :(
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

And so do you, Germans. Don't you? Don't you, Butty, dwell compulsively on WWII and its aftermath? You do, just as we do.

Maybe...but would you please explain your "since ages"-sentence?
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

Does that sound like a democracy to you?

I don't think that the US system is very democratic...with only 2 partys and this confusing voting system...but it's yours and you seem to like it so I won't criticize...*shrugs*
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

fed up with the German pugnacity and destructive role in Europe for ages,

Erm...yes? For ages???

Care to explain?

I really thought it was the Brits and the French with their big empires who fighted regularly across the continent and conquered lands all over the world...

How do you think someone get's an Empire??? By talking???
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

Yes...and the Americans have television, free press, the internet, a working democracy and all that.

Imagine Germany without all that but only state media which filters the truth...
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

Go and start the next one... maybe finally Berlin will come back to fatherland...

Why should we?
We already rule Europe! *bah* :)
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

National socialism was absolutely and deeply german cultural product.No other land had similar background.

Crap!

Millions of allied soldiers were of cultural german background (often just first generation Americans)...think alone of the US army...german names overall....so much for your cultural product!
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

You want us to believe that the Germans died for the good of Austria?Man even an Austrian would laugh by that.

"...After Sarajevo, Count Leopold von Berchtold, the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, drew up a letter for the Emperor Francis Joseph to sign and send to Wilhelm II to try and convince both of Serbia's responsibility.

On July 6th, Wilhelm II and his Imperial Chancellor, Theobald von "Bethmann-Hollweg, telegrammed Berchtold that Austria-Hungary could rely that Germany would support whatever action was necessary to deal with Serbia -- in effect offering von Berchtold a 'blank check
.'

Telegram from the Imperial Chancellor, von Bethmann-Hollweg, to the German Ambassador at Vienna. Tschirschky, July 6, 1914 ..."

net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/1914/blankche.html

"Germany, allied to Austria-Hungary by treaty, viewed the Russian mobilisation as an act of war against Austria-Hungary, and after scant warning declared war on Russia on 1 August."

One Thing Led to Another

*

Austria-Hungary, unsatisfied with Serbia's response to her ultimatum (which in the event was almost entirely placatory: however her jibbing over a couple of minor clauses gave Austria-Hungary her sought-after cue) declared war on Serbia on 28 July 1914.

*

Russia, bound by treaty to Serbia, announced mobilisation of its vast army in her defence, a slow process that would take around six weeks to complete.

*

Germany, allied to Austria-Hungary by treaty, viewed the Russian mobilisation as an act of war against Austria-Hungary, and after scant warning declared war on Russia on 1 August.

firstworldwar.com/origins/causes.htm
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

They blame him because he failed,not because of the murders.

I'm sorry but if everything would had been known to the Germans to what choosing Hitler would lead to I really, really, really doubt they would act the same...
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

I notice a sword as well.

Yeah...well...at that time a man of world just HAD to have one...:)

Yes but the Germans attacked.The other countries had defensive plans.

They attacked to honor their alliance with Austria...so much for loyalty and what it get's you! :(
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

I think I know, but I want to hear it from you...

Hmmm....

Maybe that many Germans had a reason to decide for the Nazis, to follow Hitler...and that this reasons had much to do with WWI and the aftermath.

That they didn't choose the Nazis mainly for going to kill Poles or Jews but to regain dignitiy and land.
Hitler promised them all that, they believed him and paid dearly for it.
But they weren't lunatics who did know from the start where all this would lead to....
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

Why do you prefer to use such nationalistic symbols?You know that german nationalism is connected with nazism in the other countries and this is a polish forum

Hey...that's just a handsome man with long blond hair and muscles...so what....:)
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

>>"There was no miscommunication at all.The german buisenessmen,the heads of industries and the prussian aristocracy had planned very carefully the attack and waited for the time when the circumstances would be ideal to set it in motion.The german army had already the plan for the attack from 1907,the ingenious plan Schlieffen and waited for the orders to realize it."<<

That's a lie!

All sides were geared up for war....not only Germany!
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

He used the military symbol of Wehrmacht the iron cross in his avatar and now he uses a typical germanic,runic man,what was supposed to be the archetype of Aryan race.

Erm...the Iron Cross is used even today...and it was one of the most famous signs before Hitler was a glint in somebody's eye!

And now you pic on my avatar??? :)
This "runic" man is from the Nibelungen Saga...centuries old...even far before someone developed the word "Aryan"...

What is it with you?

Presenting MY viewpoint makes me a Nazi?
Is that the best argument you have???
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

A Germany didn't even exist till 1871!

Till then this rug of litle or bigger states was a happy playground for the bigger neighbouring powers too!
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

Which territories ? Give us some laugh.

What?
Did you already forgot that if it had not been for the generosity of the victors of WWI there wouldn't had been a Poland???

A generosity at the costs of the Germans....

Actually Poles must be glad about the wars...they accumulated always more land from Germany!
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2007
News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]

What if Poland decided that they wanted ALL their territory back?

If you go even further back germanic tribes hunted in all the lands what is now Poland or the Baltics...what if Germany wants ALL her lands back???