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New York Post : "Polish" Death Camps and more [278]
Well? Satisfied?
Not really, because it's not enough that
you admit it. I actually believe that you mean what you say, but how many of your "kind" are there in Poland? Essentially, I would like to hear something from the Polish government.
...truth distortion and pure lying
That's what
you say it is. I bet there are plenty of other people who would see it differently. Let's call it "different opinions" instead.
Not a single church was destroyed
I had the pleasure to travel through Poland from Szczecin to the Poznan region a few years ago. Because I'm a little bit into genealogy I also tried to visit the places where my ancestors had lived (mainly small villages). I guarantee you that there was not a single of the former protestant churches left standing in those villages (example: Wąwelno, Gmina Sośno, pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C4%85welno) and that most of the cemeteries were either destroyed or neglected.
(Google and you will find many other examples.)
Many other churches I saw lost their towers and were converted into sheds for agricultural machinery for example. Others were turned into catholic churches, as you said.
In recent years it got better though, and quite a few old cemeteries were restored.
As for point NO 1, it was the allied powers which decided about the replacement of German population. Hence, go to complain to US, Great Britain and Russia. Poland had nothing to do with it.
I agree that the allies are to blame for the loss of Polish and German territories (and the expulsion of their populations) in the east, but I still have to ask who were the ones that actually performed the expulsions? The Soviets and their willing helpers, the Polish army. So yes, Poland had a lot to do with it.
As for point NO 3, most German victims...
The number of casualties I gave was the one caused by the expulsion alone. The total number of victims (incl. refugees) is much higher. Because the ethnic cleansing was carried out by both the Soviet and Polish armies, a share of the blame definitely falls on Poland.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Germans_after_World_War_II
Scroll down to 'Demographic estimates, Casualties' for details.
As for the translation:
"Furthermore, she criticizes the lacking willingness (of the Polish state) to deal with Polish crimes against Germans or with Polish anti-semitism. "Poland hardly ever faces its past, [...], the (Polish) public sees it's national history in the tradition of heroic myths" (??? the latter is hard to translate for me).
Or are you better in Russian
My dad was Polish, my mum is German, and I was born in Australia. Feeling better now? :-)
...can we close this now?
Very soon
