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jon357   
5 Jul 2012
Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

I didn't know they wanted Poles cooperating with them. To join the Hitler youth I assumed you had to be purebed German or pass as Germanic from their racial tests.

They didn't want Poles. They wanted anybody with a slight connection to Germany to become German. In Poland, such people were encouraged to join one of the categories on the Volkslist. This made a very big difference to the amount of food you were allowed to buy. Many signed it. Many refused.

Joining the HitlerJugend was not easy to avoid, especially later in the war.
jon357   
5 Jul 2012
Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

Was he a stolen child that was Germanized?

Oh dear. You think people had to be stolen children in order to cooperate with the regime?

By the way,those children who were stolen were usually babies and toddlers, and given that Poland fell in late 39 a toddler would hardly have been old enough by the end of the European part of the war in early 45 to join the HJ. And they had their names changed.
jon357   
4 Jul 2012
Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

That still doesn't make it a poor country. Have you spent much time in Africa?
jon357   
4 Jul 2012
USA, Canada / Getting a VISA to USA by a Polish person nowadays [339]

There are very strict criteria for a country being added to the Visa Waiver scheme, The most important criterion is that only a very small number of that country's citizens overstay their visa. When Poland meets that criterion it will no dout be added to the list. Until then, if the rules are the same for other European countries it is not discrimination.
jon357   
3 Jul 2012
News / SUNDAY WITHOUT MASS IN POLAND - Judaeo-leftist Wyborcza gloats [165]

What then should be the basis for the nation's life: the pub crawl, one-night stands, shopping malls, prnsites, single mums, high-tech e-gadgetry, 'me, myself and I' values? We already have that all about us and can see what 'wonderful' results it has produced

You only seem to see two extreme alternatives. Religious fundamentalism and theocratic laws on one side and debauchery on the other. Most places get along just fine as they are.

If people in Poland increasingly don't want to go to mass on Sunday it is their choice. What we do here is up to us who live here, not to some guy thousands of kilometres away who has hardly ever actually been here and the last time over twenty years ago. Your intemperate posts (didn't you describe Special Children as "morons" and Polish single women as "diseased slags" not so long ago?) aren't going to bring the people of PL around to your way of thinking. The thread title is no great advert either for the belief system you're promoting.

If that's the sort of thing they're going to hear from churchgoers, no wonder 60% (and growing) decide it's better on Sunday to stay at home with the family.
jon357   
3 Jul 2012
Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

Very true. I suspect quite a few 'university students' wouldn't find early Eighties O levels so easy. In Poland the situation is similar.

And too many students taking exotic sounding courses that are no good whatsoever for the jobs market.
jon357   
2 Jul 2012
Real Estate / Why so many incomplete kitchens in Polish rental flats? [24]

A lot is not all or most.

it is a significant enough number to influence the rental market. Like it or not, as you say in your first and original post 'so many' rental flats are in this situation.
jon357   
2 Jul 2012
Real Estate / Why so many incomplete kitchens in Polish rental flats? [24]

Remember a lot of people (especially single people and young couples) in Warsaw go back home at the weekend (returning with an armful of kielbasa, nalesniki and a cooked chicken) and work quite hard during the week. And therefore aren't too ambitious about cooking big dinners.