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Bratwurst Boy   
5 Jan 2010
History / What British unit liberated Poland in 1945?? [445]

Pretty doubtful really - Hitler relied on speed, and if Poland was causing vast amounts of trouble for him, combined with a sudden attack on the Western border after a few weeks - then it's hard to imagine the German people really supporting yet more slaughter of their own in Poland.

I agree...much of the nimbus of "Hitler the invincible military genius" developed after the successfull campaigns in Poland and France.

Had he struggled or been seriously contested (doesn't matter how) his Generals who doubted his plans and strategies would had had a bigger say...
Bratwurst Boy   
5 Jan 2010
History / What British unit liberated Poland in 1945?? [445]

Germany would have had to commit a massive amount of troops just to secure Poland - and *then* there would have been an opportunity for an attack from the West.

But then...would have Hitler attacked Russia if the Germans couldn't even keep control of Poland?
Imagine a restless Poland still demanding masses of german troops...with uprisings and bloody streetfighting everywhere...hmmm..

The Wehrmacht generals needed a quiet "Hinterland" to prepare for and start Barbarossa...they did only start as Poland and later France were "pacified"....
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / What British unit liberated Poland in 1945?? [445]

The rest of your post is fantasy stuff! :)

Why?

Poland had neither the size, nor the human capital to could have hoped to match Germany or Russia...chosing to play the game like them to their rules could only spell doom.

Poland should have chosen a form of warfare which played to their strengths like bravery, independence, cunning...a form of guerilla warfare would had made things barely worse than trying to cope with the german and russian juggernauts with conventional warfare.

They just were never big enough!

But they could have pestered both enormously...after all for the Germans the most hated enemy in the russian steppes weren't the russian troops but the partisans who blew up all the logistics the army needed.
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

blah blah go to the kitchen woman !

Nathan agrees with nincompoop (and he is our board Ukrainian)! ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

I largely agree but the point about the allegiances of The Germanic minority in The Second Republic brings up issues of how they were treated, enforcing the Polish language on German speakers cant then be used as a legimate grievance using the logic of the quote.

One thing had both in common...the Poles hated to be under prussian/german rule and the Germans hated it under new-polish rule!

Both mistreated and abused the other at first chance and opportunity. That's why so many polish Volksdeutsche prefered the invading Germans..

But one thing - you cant blame a nation. Blame a pack, a group, an invidual, Not a nation.

The creation of nationstates meant mostly hell for the many different ethnics in Europe...most of our conflicts and grudges stem from the experiences made then...
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

He did it so its ok?

I think it was ok for that time and even today immigrant/minority children are forced to learn the primary language.
A multi ethnic state can't work otherwise...
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
Life / Tattoos and Popular culture in Poland [51]

Though I think with something like runes you get them for a meaning right?

It would be a visible connection to my beliefs, to my heritage, to my ancestors...surely not because they look "pretty", as they barely do. ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

Evene if they were Polish?

We are all actually "Germoles" !

Trying to extinguish a language is fairly harsh.

When you mean Bismarck's "Kulturkampf" that was more about breaking the catholic church's neck and to modernize, secularize Prussia (it was a german catholic trying to assassinate Bismarck for that)...not extinguish polish but enforcing german as school language, first language in the multi- ethnic state Prussia was.

(Not that much different as the Poles tried with the Ukrainians as every nationstate needed to have one primary language only)
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

Germans in Silesia were minority.

Erm.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesia#Demographics

"....In 1905, a census showed that 75% of the population was German and 25% Polish.

If you are a German and I am Polish and we speak to a true Sileasian, you'd understand 50%, I'd understand another 50% but Sileasian would understand 100%.

There are barely any "true" Silesians left as most who identified as Germans left (my family for example) and were replaced by displaced Poles from the lost eastern territories (Sokrates' family for example)...
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

If someone willingly gives up their national identity and assumes the national identity of an enemy during the times of

Well..the invading Germans weren't seen as enemies by the Germans who were a harassed minority (who either weren't asked to become Poles or if asked decided in their majority to prefer to stay with Germany) in new-Poland.

Why do Poles omitt that little fact so readily?
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
Life / Tattoos and Popular culture in Poland [51]

Do you have any other tattoos?

Nope...and I'm only playing with the idea...

I guess those tattoos represent Celtic or possibly American-Indian (Native American) tribes? Are you polish?

These are runes...I didn't know the native Americans use them too? (I've heard of some interaction with the Vikings of course)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

Germany still produces (less and less every year of course).

It's still enough to be third even with only the size of Montana, barely any natural resources to speak of and only some millions of workforce...THAT is efficience (inclusive much welfare and a bulging bureaucracy) ;)

So something of your math (welfare + regulations = bad economy) is for the bin!
The one country in deep **** is one without much welfare and barely any regulations...

*tries hard not to look over to convex*
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

Effects we already see, no GDP grow.

This is the effect of your made-in-the-US crisis, THANKYOU!!! btw. and not because of our welfare.

Quite to the contrary, our welfare net kept Germans quite and not panicking. So our economy kept equally quiet, no desperate runs to the banks, people sold and did buy as usual as nobody feared to become homeless and jobless overnight without a dime to feed their kids.

Modern shamans like Al Gore earn big bucks on talking complete rubbish to ignorant masses.

I don't think Gore earns a buck if clean-tech get's developed and sold in Germany...cut the crap lesser!

Also if one feel to be a cow then Scandinavia seems to be a good place to live. Forgive me BB, I'm human!

Now that was mean! :(
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

The problems in the US stem from regulation, corporate welfare/social welfare, and idiotic monetary policy.

Oh please!

I never heard someone state that the US is burdened by to much regulation and welfare...hell you hadn't even a health care till yesterday!!!

Most EU countries have much more of both and still managed to NOT throw the world into a crisis!

Madoff scams couldn't have happened with more control and regulations...neither would the victims left alone to hang themselves as they have no security net to fall back on now.
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

What's BWL?

"Betriebswirtschaftslehre" = business administration
(Yes, it is that mind numbing as it sounds)

The demand is not rising, because it is still inefficient.

The demand is extremely rising! And seeing how new that whole concept is it is no wonder it is not efficient....yet!
Give it another 25 years though...

Well said, Europe is a socialist sh*thole. You always need tones of papers to start something and all of this cost tones of money.

I always find that thinking funny as for example Germany was always big on welfare and beaureucracy and still managed to be a highly efficient and successful society and economy!

Not to talk about the scandinavian countries as another example, all are alot more regulated
than the US - but nobody would call them less successful or a "sh*ithole"!

Remind me again, where did the biggest economic crisis of the modern times stem from?
Regulated Europe or unregulated US/UK???
Ever visited the new tent cities outside of big american cities with those millions of newly homeless people in them in the States recently???

The same as the nearly "communist" EU (only in your head though mind you) is taking over the lead as more successfull economy than the US despite all that "meddling" and "coddling" of their citizens....how come???;)

lesser, your EU-phobia is starting to cloud your brain!

University should be outside of state control but the EU must handle everything.

Well...it will make the future students in the EU more mobile and hence better suited to adapt to the new and bigger markets...they will profit from it in the end.

The whole of Europe will be open to them to study and to search for work, much more possibilities for them.

One thing is to reduce pollution and the second talking BS about global warming.

I really doubt that stopping to talk about it will do a thing against the pollution...
Behaving like the three apes...you know: Not seeing/Not hearing/Not telling is a first class ticket into the catastrophe!
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

The Earth can take care of itself as it did for centuries and millenniums.

Without now billions of earth-polluting humans she would still be quite able to do so...but we aren't leaving anywhere soon, quite to the contrary our number will only rise till we find a way to pollute other planets.

Hence the ABSOLUTE NEED for green tech to stop at least the polluting at home...
(You don't have a spare planet somewhere?)

(And in Germany at least green-tech becomes more and more an important economical factor which makes for more and more employment - a win/win situation)
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

use the capitalistic approach and turn the escaping gases into energy.

Green-tech scientists are working on that!

yeah, some is true, but who is going to figure out your taxes in the IRS corn maze or get your a** out of trouble when you need it?

Are you an accountant per chance Eurola? ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

How long will the next generation be happy 'saving'?

Well...without clean-tech there won't be many more generations (or do you have a second, "fresh", planet hidden somewhere) ?
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

The green energy trend is just as strong as the lawyers and accountants in the 80's. This too shall pass

I don't think so Eurola...green technology is a necessity, not only a trend, and will only grow as it has only just begun. The demand is rising enormously.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_technology

But who needs millions of lawyers and accountants??? ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

All too often, schools pay too much attention on Business focussed careers.

Yeah...the "to many lawyers and accountants"-syndrome! :(

Some years back alot of young Germans wanted to study BWL...only because it was fashion with the Yuppie-generation who wanted nothing more then to earn alot of money and driving big cars very quick.

I wonder where they are now..
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

You can do something that you love and make good money doing it.

There a alot of professions which don't need a degree or an official grade as in creative jobs for example.
Especially there where the knowledge, the skills etc can't be streamlined, measured exactly, where the development is that quick that the students know more than the teachers ...it still needs alot of hard study to become that good that one can actually live from it.

I would even say that especially in those fields you must'n stop learning and keep always on your toes...but if one likes that field, learning is actually fun and not only a duty! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

The noble happiness without it just does not work in the real life.

What's wrong with paying the bill with a job you actually like because you could chose it for yourself thanks to your education? ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

Pisa does however look into socioeconomic background of students. It's not that favorable to Germany.

I don't count Pisa fully if I'm honest...look at those Länder who are the worst...it's those with the most arab/turkish immigrant kids as in Berlin for example.

PS: There was another study in the mean time
pisa.ipn.uni-kiel.de/Zusfsg_PISA2006_national.pdf

Der internationale Vergleich der naturwissenschaftlichen Kompetenz bei PISA 2006 brachte ein für Deutschland erfreuliches Ergebnis:

Amounted to an average of 516 points
Germany for the first time significantly above the OECD average and had thus its
2000 and 2003 improved international position since PISA significantly
.
.
.
It is becoming apparent that the scientific literacy competence is strongest in the three Countries, namely, Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia (which are also statistically significantly higher than the average for Germany), also in an international comparison would belong to the top.

The first PISA study was a shock though....but Germany reacted and now it looks much better!

You said it yourself, you have to work a lot harder in Germany if you were already moved to a non university track when you were 13 years old.

That is true though...but actually I fail to see the disadvantage.
Not everybody belongs into a gymnasium/university...

How much worth is a high grade if EVERYBODY gets one???

They are the smarties and the dumbies....if both can get easily a bachelor how much worth
is this bachelor?

And what about the US practice to suffer sport students who are only "working" in the sport teams of the Uni and still get their grades??? ;)

That is impossible in Germany!