Germans and Poles - Fiction or Myth?

tornado2007 11 | 2270

22 Mar 2008 / #121

Lukasz

so enlighten us then ow oricle :)

Lukasz 49 | 1746

22 Mar 2008 / #122

in your case I think it is imposible :)

tornado2007 11 | 2270

22 Mar 2008 / #123

probably because you find people who disagree with your point of view difficult, especially as your are so biased through your Polishness :)

shopgirl 6 | 928

22 Mar 2008 / #124

especially as your are so biased through your Polishness :)

Don't blame all Polish people because of him.....not all Polish people think like that, I promise! :)

Jozef Pilsudski - | 25

25 Mar 2008 / #125

Nobody asked the Silesian Germans if they wanted to leave. They either expelled them or raped/killed them. This is actually not a very nice part of Polish history, I wonder if the Poles consider their behaviour towards the Silesian Germans in the post-war years still as being justified or do they look back at this episode in shame?

I don't believe there is much to be ashamed about. Most every nation in history has performed some form of ethnic cleansing. Berlin thought nothing of cleansing traditional Czech and Polish lands and replacing the people with ethnic Germans. What Poland did is also no worse than what the Russians did, stealing Konigsberg from the Germans in East Prussia and transforming it into Kaliningrad. The difference between the two actions is that the Russians stole a historic German region. Poles reclaimed a region (Silesia) they had a historic right to.

Alister - | 5

12 Apr 2008 / #126

My 3 pens (Moje 3 grosze) :P

1. Past:
- Germans started the war
- West allies surendered Poland to Comunist Regime
- Comunist Regime made "reconstuction of central Europe" taking Polish eastern teritories for USSR and giving eastern German teritories to Poland
Conlusion:
Not our fault, sorry.

2. Present:
- I live in Poland
- I have German friends
- I have German boss
- I'm not afraid of few maniacks that want to revert history (Steinbach, Kaczynski)
- We are allies, friends and co-members of EU and NATO
Conclusion:
The borders in europe are fixed. Remember and learn from the past, but look for the future. We are now one Europe, there are greater things to think about than painfull past.

DomPolski 7 | 33

26 Sep 2008 / #127

Most Poles I know have a general hate for the Germans.