Lyzko
13 Mar 2018
Lyzko
13 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
Spot on, Tacitus!
In 1945, until just 1947, any and all territories once deemed "German" were ceded BACK to their original inhabitants, although not without a series of treaties which hammered out what were felt to be kinks or snags in the wording as to what actually comprises "German" vs. "Polish" lands.
The latter is especially important to bear in mind.
Spot on, Tacitus!
In 1945, until just 1947, any and all territories once deemed "German" were ceded BACK to their original inhabitants, although not without a series of treaties which hammered out what were felt to be kinks or snags in the wording as to what actually comprises "German" vs. "Polish" lands.
The latter is especially important to bear in mind.
Lyzko
13 Mar 2018
History / How come Poles like Russians but not Germans? [216]
Well, guess you've proven my point.
I lived for practically a total of a year-and-a-half in Germany, as many here on PF already know, and would have had my ego merrily bruised on almost a daily basis had I not the tough hide of perfect German, plus a naturally thick skin to people who just love playing psychology with those whom they perceive as "weaker":-)
Never visited Russia, but during my albeit brief sojourn in Poland, I never noticed this attitude towards strangers as I did in Germany.
Rather refreshing in this respect, Poland.
Well, guess you've proven my point.
I lived for practically a total of a year-and-a-half in Germany, as many here on PF already know, and would have had my ego merrily bruised on almost a daily basis had I not the tough hide of perfect German, plus a naturally thick skin to people who just love playing psychology with those whom they perceive as "weaker":-)
Never visited Russia, but during my albeit brief sojourn in Poland, I never noticed this attitude towards strangers as I did in Germany.
Rather refreshing in this respect, Poland.
Lyzko
13 Mar 2018
History / How come Poles like Russians but not Germans? [216]
Germans have the reputation for being arrogant and condescending to nearly EVERYBODY, not only the Poles!
To a certain degree, this stereotype is not unfounded. Germans are known, even amongst their own, to be "geltungsbeduerftig", in need of
constant reassurance that they're always being proper, serious, and above all, credible....to the extreme:-)
Germans have the reputation for being arrogant and condescending to nearly EVERYBODY, not only the Poles!
To a certain degree, this stereotype is not unfounded. Germans are known, even amongst their own, to be "geltungsbeduerftig", in need of
constant reassurance that they're always being proper, serious, and above all, credible....to the extreme:-)
Lyzko
12 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
@Ironside et al.
There can be zero "reconciliation" between Poland and Germany if scholars and historians are no longer even allowed to question certain sacred cows of national history! If Poland did right, then by all means praise the Karskis, Bielickis, Sochas, and Sendlers to the skies. However, if and when Poland did wrong, why surpress the truth, be it concerning Poland, Israel, the US or any other country? For every sympathetic Polish peasant, urban neighbor or whomever who did the Christian thing and tried to help out against the German scourge, there were of course plenty of others who willingly turned in Jews, either for personal profit or sheer hatred.
Let's not whitewash history. Scary to think that this very post in Poland might have me wind up stiffly fined or even jailed.
@Ironside et al.
There can be zero "reconciliation" between Poland and Germany if scholars and historians are no longer even allowed to question certain sacred cows of national history! If Poland did right, then by all means praise the Karskis, Bielickis, Sochas, and Sendlers to the skies. However, if and when Poland did wrong, why surpress the truth, be it concerning Poland, Israel, the US or any other country? For every sympathetic Polish peasant, urban neighbor or whomever who did the Christian thing and tried to help out against the German scourge, there were of course plenty of others who willingly turned in Jews, either for personal profit or sheer hatred.
Let's not whitewash history. Scary to think that this very post in Poland might have me wind up stiffly fined or even jailed.
Lyzko
11 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
Holocaust marginalization, for one thing! Are you kidding here or don't you keep up with the news?? This AfD bloke Hoecke a while back publically decried in a SPIEGEL-interview the presence of Holocaust monuments in Berlin as a kind of "national eyesore", beating the same drum about how it's time for Germans to shed the guilt of their past. Next, it might even become a legal infraction to lay guilt for the Shoah at Germany's doorstep, like it is in Poland to accuse Poland of any sort of collusion.
Ya call this healthy?
Holocaust marginalization, for one thing! Are you kidding here or don't you keep up with the news?? This AfD bloke Hoecke a while back publically decried in a SPIEGEL-interview the presence of Holocaust monuments in Berlin as a kind of "national eyesore", beating the same drum about how it's time for Germans to shed the guilt of their past. Next, it might even become a legal infraction to lay guilt for the Shoah at Germany's doorstep, like it is in Poland to accuse Poland of any sort of collusion.
Ya call this healthy?
Lyzko
11 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
It's not the Muslims who concern me most, it's the PEGIDA and AfD gunning for Mutti Merkel's job come next mid-term elections!
It's not the Muslims who concern me most, it's the PEGIDA and AfD gunning for Mutti Merkel's job come next mid-term elections!
Lyzko
10 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
@Johnny,
Hope springs eternal, d.h. die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt FAT CHANCE, FELLA! Ain't gonna happen in our lifetimes.
@Sig,
Those rabid anti-Semites are not German, but Arab, hence their motivations are Koran-driven, meaning, they are purely ideological rather than biological!
If Jews all miraculously converted to Islam some day (don't hold your breath though, guysLOL), the Syrians and Assad would be happy campers.
Such was NEVER the case with Hitler or his minions - once a Jew, always a Jew...
@Johnny,
Hope springs eternal, d.h. die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt FAT CHANCE, FELLA! Ain't gonna happen in our lifetimes.
@Sig,
Those rabid anti-Semites are not German, but Arab, hence their motivations are Koran-driven, meaning, they are purely ideological rather than biological!
If Jews all miraculously converted to Islam some day (don't hold your breath though, guysLOL), the Syrians and Assad would be happy campers.
Such was NEVER the case with Hitler or his minions - once a Jew, always a Jew...
Lyzko
10 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
Merkel is trying desperately to show something in short supply in the Federal Republic, not to mention the German character in general, namely, empathy!!
Pity this empathy hasn't as yet extended to German-Jews living outside Germany. Reports abound of German-speaking applicants from any number of countries outside Europe, including the US, where a lingering prejudice exists towards German-speaking Jews who "look Jewish" and thus remain an annyong reminder of Germany's guilt for the Shoah!
Merkel has a lot of work to do on many fronts.
Merkel is trying desperately to show something in short supply in the Federal Republic, not to mention the German character in general, namely, empathy!!
Pity this empathy hasn't as yet extended to German-Jews living outside Germany. Reports abound of German-speaking applicants from any number of countries outside Europe, including the US, where a lingering prejudice exists towards German-speaking Jews who "look Jewish" and thus remain an annyong reminder of Germany's guilt for the Shoah!
Merkel has a lot of work to do on many fronts.
Lyzko
9 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
A misplaced social conscience, maybe, a conscience nonetheless. A lot more than I can say for this buzzard in the White House, who wouldn't know a civil right from a civil wrong, nor would he care!
A misplaced social conscience, maybe, a conscience nonetheless. A lot more than I can say for this buzzard in the White House, who wouldn't know a civil right from a civil wrong, nor would he care!
Lyzko
9 Mar 2018
Lyzko
9 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
Sig, unfortunately nowadays, it's rarely a matter of choice! Those "3rd world refugees" currently reside in middle-class neighborhoods of the US as well.
Where we live, my wife and I haven't had a day pass when Muslims, Southeast Asians or recently-arrived Hispanics don't walk by our building, supposedly still a luxury condo.
The old shibboleths no longer hold true.
Sig, unfortunately nowadays, it's rarely a matter of choice! Those "3rd world refugees" currently reside in middle-class neighborhoods of the US as well.
Where we live, my wife and I haven't had a day pass when Muslims, Southeast Asians or recently-arrived Hispanics don't walk by our building, supposedly still a luxury condo.
The old shibboleths no longer hold true.
Lyzko
9 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
Look everybody, Ms. Merkel acted out of her sense of civic duty as well as her Christian conscience, this is clear.
Naturally though, she ruffled plenty of reactionary feathers in the process, because, as I've said here so many times by now, she felt herself between the proverbial rock and a hard place; as a European, she needs, indeed has to, please Brussels, as a German, she bears fully the burden of her country's tortured "recent" history, therefore, once again, she's damned if he does and perhaps doubly damned if she doesn't!
As to the German business community, the Federal Republic might well be the most "Americanized" of Europe's democracies at the moment, hence, saying that Merkel allowing loads of Syrians into the country wasn't an economic decision in and of itself just doesn't ring true, I'm sorry.
At the risk of sounding cynical, were the Spaniards during the '50's, later on the Greeks, the Turks, the Nigerians etc. during the go-go '60's right up through the end of the '70's, allowed into the then fledgling Federal Republic of Germany merely out of the goodness of the Germans' hearts??
Look everybody, Ms. Merkel acted out of her sense of civic duty as well as her Christian conscience, this is clear.
Naturally though, she ruffled plenty of reactionary feathers in the process, because, as I've said here so many times by now, she felt herself between the proverbial rock and a hard place; as a European, she needs, indeed has to, please Brussels, as a German, she bears fully the burden of her country's tortured "recent" history, therefore, once again, she's damned if he does and perhaps doubly damned if she doesn't!
As to the German business community, the Federal Republic might well be the most "Americanized" of Europe's democracies at the moment, hence, saying that Merkel allowing loads of Syrians into the country wasn't an economic decision in and of itself just doesn't ring true, I'm sorry.
At the risk of sounding cynical, were the Spaniards during the '50's, later on the Greeks, the Turks, the Nigerians etc. during the go-go '60's right up through the end of the '70's, allowed into the then fledgling Federal Republic of Germany merely out of the goodness of the Germans' hearts??
Lyzko
9 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
For the umpteenth time folks, immigrants are only "attractive" for highly developed, industrialized, and culturally established countries as those in much of Northern Europe because of the pervasive lure of cheap labor!. Once the scent becomes less pervasive, so too the erstwhile attractiveness of foreign-born, third-world, low-wage workers to first-world nations.
For the umpteenth time folks, immigrants are only "attractive" for highly developed, industrialized, and culturally established countries as those in much of Northern Europe because of the pervasive lure of cheap labor!. Once the scent becomes less pervasive, so too the erstwhile attractiveness of foreign-born, third-world, low-wage workers to first-world nations.
Lyzko
8 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
Precisely because you are a historian whose posts I generally consider with respect, makes me wonder why you continue to give credence to his half-baked meanderings!
Precisely because you are a historian whose posts I generally consider with respect, makes me wonder why you continue to give credence to his half-baked meanderings!
Lyzko
8 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
...a point to consider, only so long as you don't underestimate mine:-)
Easy to post semi-literate rubbish, making yourself amenable to others who actually post sense, at the same time being protected in the invisible cocoon of being a foreigner!
You and certain others here do play Devil's Advocate well.....just remember not to hoist yourselves up by your own petard in the process.
...a point to consider, only so long as you don't underestimate mine:-)
Easy to post semi-literate rubbish, making yourself amenable to others who actually post sense, at the same time being protected in the invisible cocoon of being a foreigner!
You and certain others here do play Devil's Advocate well.....just remember not to hoist yourselves up by your own petard in the process.
Lyzko
8 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
Pity he has neither truth nor logic on his side as wellLOL
Pity he has neither truth nor logic on his side as wellLOL
Lyzko
8 Mar 2018
Real Estate / Renting out my appartment in Poland - how to do it properly [12]
Maybe a Finnish-Polish exchange might be in the offing?
Anyhow, I reiterate my best wishes to you for the very best of luck!
Stay in touch,
Maybe a Finnish-Polish exchange might be in the offing?
Anyhow, I reiterate my best wishes to you for the very best of luck!
Stay in touch,
Lyzko
8 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
@Tacitus,
Why do you even bother reading, much less taking seriously, Crow's posts?
@Tacitus,
Why do you even bother reading, much less taking seriously, Crow's posts?
Lyzko
7 Mar 2018
Real Estate / Renting out my appartment in Poland - how to do it properly [12]
No apologies needed, Alexbrz. I too have lived in Holland, as I mentioned, and the number of near fistacuffs I can recall involved similar direct, "hostile", point-blank directness.
Lucky for me, being of German background, I've always had the requisite thick skin!
No apologies needed, Alexbrz. I too have lived in Holland, as I mentioned, and the number of near fistacuffs I can recall involved similar direct, "hostile", point-blank directness.
Lucky for me, being of German background, I've always had the requisite thick skin!
Lyzko
7 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
Post-War Germany's always found herself between a rock and a hard place! She's damned by the AfD if she bends over backwards to help the underprivileged others, risking the epithet 'Policeman of Europe', and damned by her own leftist coalition party if she were to forbid those Syrians from coming to Germany.
No easy being German, let me tell you!
Post-War Germany's always found herself between a rock and a hard place! She's damned by the AfD if she bends over backwards to help the underprivileged others, risking the epithet 'Policeman of Europe', and damned by her own leftist coalition party if she were to forbid those Syrians from coming to Germany.
No easy being German, let me tell you!
Lyzko
7 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
Merkel's a pragmatist, not a racist. Her "crime" has been going just a wee bit overboard on what the Jews call "rachmunis" aka pity for the next bloke off the boat instead of for her fellow Germans.
Merkel's a pragmatist, not a racist. Her "crime" has been going just a wee bit overboard on what the Jews call "rachmunis" aka pity for the next bloke off the boat instead of for her fellow Germans.
Lyzko
7 Mar 2018
Real Estate / Renting out my appartment in Poland - how to do it properly [12]
Tell me, do either of you two speak or at least understand some Polish for everyday purposes? Unlike in your country, not every second person off the streets of a major city will understand mostly fluent English.
Tell me, do either of you two speak or at least understand some Polish for everyday purposes? Unlike in your country, not every second person off the streets of a major city will understand mostly fluent English.
Lyzko
6 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
Germany aka Chancellor Merkel, apropos another unrelated matter, namely, the Holocaust Victims Compensation Fund from the last council of Child Survivors, has flatly stated that her country matter of factly cannot afford being further strapped in compensating each and every victim group who suffered under Nazi oppression.
The lady's not being anti-Semitic, heaven knows, or unsympathetic, but rather economically realistic!!
Germany aka Chancellor Merkel, apropos another unrelated matter, namely, the Holocaust Victims Compensation Fund from the last council of Child Survivors, has flatly stated that her country matter of factly cannot afford being further strapped in compensating each and every victim group who suffered under Nazi oppression.
The lady's not being anti-Semitic, heaven knows, or unsympathetic, but rather economically realistic!!
Lyzko
4 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
As I've oft stated on this Forum, if every nation/country wanted reconcilliation in the form of financial compensation for every single war, skirmish or armed conflict throughout their long and checkered histories, they'd all go flat broke in the process. Some way, some place, and some time, likely soon, somebody's gonna have to draw a clear line in the sand... and that includes Israel!
:-)
As I've oft stated on this Forum, if every nation/country wanted reconcilliation in the form of financial compensation for every single war, skirmish or armed conflict throughout their long and checkered histories, they'd all go flat broke in the process. Some way, some place, and some time, likely soon, somebody's gonna have to draw a clear line in the sand... and that includes Israel!
:-)
Lyzko
4 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
Poland did indeed suffer beyond measure, even the ill-fated Israeli ambassador to Poland, Anna Azari, was the first to admit it.
However, Merkel and Schaeuble have been on the extreme austerity side, separate and apart from war reparations.
Poland did indeed suffer beyond measure, even the ill-fated Israeli ambassador to Poland, Anna Azari, was the first to admit it.
However, Merkel and Schaeuble have been on the extreme austerity side, separate and apart from war reparations.
Lyzko
4 Mar 2018
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
This is quite true, Marino_Kat!
I remember reading in the German press several years ago that under Foreign Minister Genscher during the Kohl administration, the latter made certain that Greece wouldn't receive one Euro aka Mark from the Federal Government.
Poland is far from the only country to "suffer" financially from German tight-fistedness.
This is quite true, Marino_Kat!
I remember reading in the German press several years ago that under Foreign Minister Genscher during the Kohl administration, the latter made certain that Greece wouldn't receive one Euro aka Mark from the Federal Government.
Poland is far from the only country to "suffer" financially from German tight-fistedness.
Lyzko
3 Mar 2018
Language / Why 'walczy' and not 'walczą' - Polish language question [20]
And, NoToForeigners, is your English any the better were you not copying from GoogleTranslate, for FREE no less??!
In Polish, "dwoje" and "troje" are used for denoting a mixed group of people. The difficulty for foreigners learning Polish involves distinguishing whether or not a particular noun indicating humans is masculine, feminine or neuter.
You must have figured mine was an orthographic error rather than a lapse in knowledge.
And, NoToForeigners, is your English any the better were you not copying from GoogleTranslate, for FREE no less??!
In Polish, "dwoje" and "troje" are used for denoting a mixed group of people. The difficulty for foreigners learning Polish involves distinguishing whether or not a particular noun indicating humans is masculine, feminine or neuter.
You must have figured mine was an orthographic error rather than a lapse in knowledge.
Lyzko
2 Mar 2018
Language / Why 'walczy' and not 'walczą' - Polish language question [20]
This is why I spelled it with a lower-case "t":-) Apologies by the way for "dvojga" rather than "dwojga"!
This is why I spelled it with a lower-case "t":-) Apologies by the way for "dvojga" rather than "dwojga"!
Lyzko
1 Mar 2018
Language / Why 'walczy' and not 'walczą' - Polish language question [20]
.....not to mention "dwoje" "dvojga", "troja" and so forth. Polish counting's frighteningly exact! Almost reminds me of the pitfalls of certain Asian languages such as Korean and Japanese where numerals are subdivided in the texture, density, even weight and size, of countable objects:-)
Practically makes Polish look easyLOL
Just an afterthought, but might the reason for "czworo drzwi", but "cztery okna" be that in Polish, the word "drzwi" is automatically plural, for which no singular form exists, whereas there is "okno" for one, and "oknA" for more than one? Furthermore, I believe in former times, doors in Poland where in two parts which opened separately, whereas a window was always one single unit.
Merely an afterthought, as I said:-)
.....not to mention "dwoje" "dvojga", "troja" and so forth. Polish counting's frighteningly exact! Almost reminds me of the pitfalls of certain Asian languages such as Korean and Japanese where numerals are subdivided in the texture, density, even weight and size, of countable objects:-)
Practically makes Polish look easyLOL
Just an afterthought, but might the reason for "czworo drzwi", but "cztery okna" be that in Polish, the word "drzwi" is automatically plural, for which no singular form exists, whereas there is "okno" for one, and "oknA" for more than one? Furthermore, I believe in former times, doors in Poland where in two parts which opened separately, whereas a window was always one single unit.
Merely an afterthought, as I said:-)