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Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jan 2011
History / Watch Poland grow and shrink (interactive map) [52]

Oh, really? Name one country in Europe the size of Poland (or even comparable to Poland)
that was partitioned by its neighbours and lost its independence for over 100 years.

Do 60 years count too?

Name one country that lost over 30% of its population in World War 2, not to mention
the loss of of 3 out of 4 most important cities

1/4th of our country lost

But yes, border changed in Europe nearly everywhere during the course of the history...mass losses of population happened too (30 years war, hundred years war etc.)

Not so much at the fringe but surely in the central mainland. And Belgium is in artifical construction for example, made from changed borders of France and Holland (only one example).

Denmark lost and gained (Schleswig Holstein), Italy (Tyrol from Austria) and so on.

And yes Hungary was an especial worse case...they did get no compensation till now compared to Poland.
Bratwurst Boy   
31 Dec 2010
History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]

So the Poles fighted within the Ukrainians in the Red Army?

And you demand from the common German to differentiate between them??? ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
31 Dec 2010
History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]

Yeah...I know, the red army was full of non-russians. The asiatic soldiers from the East made an especially memorable impression.

Polish banners were proudly flying all over Berlin in 1945.

Nobody disputes that...only that Poles had been the first and especially on the Reichstag.

I never heard of that!
Bratwurst Boy   
31 Dec 2010
History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]

That's why I asked about the Germans and their allies who at this time had been in the town, not to speak of the civilians! Not the Soviets...

Of course it would not have been possible for anyone to tell they were Polish soldiers..their uniform would have been the normal Red army one...

Well, if they did wear the red army uniform, and probably used russian weapons, tanks etc. then it had been the Soviets, not the polish army.

The red army was quite international too...that might explain it.
Bratwurst Boy   
31 Dec 2010
History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]

Well..alot of german soldiers, other axis soldiers and civilians had been there...why should they all want to omit the polish feat for 60 years now?
Bratwurst Boy   
31 Dec 2010
History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]

It is quite possible given the desire of nations to hoist their flags everywhere.

That is not the same as claiming to be the first at and IN the Reichstag...that is something else altogether.

We surely would had heard of it...
Bratwurst Boy   
31 Dec 2010
History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]

A polish group outside of the soviet army getting to the Reichstag first??? Hard to believe...
They would had to overcome the last fanatical resistance first...before the red army...with what???
I don't know of any german witness reports telling of polish troops breaking through the Reichstag.

Nah...don't think so!

Both, Soviet, and Western sources as well, curiously omit and ignore the Polish participation in the final Battle of Berlin

There might be a reason for it....
Bratwurst Boy   
29 Dec 2010
History / Former American President Adams in Poland. [54]

Do you come with this blood ties crap?I wonder why the Germans and the Germanic people always feel need to stress those bond of blood !?
Do they feel themselves so insecure being bastards and mongrels in all ?

Because blood, language and culture have been the binding factor of our people for most of our history.
As you well know is the nation state of Germany very young and never encompassed all Germans.
Borders have never meant much to the germanic tribes! Europe is our playground!;)

And of course we took in lots of other Europeans during the millennia, as our neighbours took in huge doses of german blood!
We are all european "mongrels", Iron! ;)

Still historical facts need to stay facts!

Silesia belonged o Prussia since 1746 if I remember correctly and Prussia become Germany in 1871!
So your claims are simply laughable BB!

As laughable as the disappearance of a polish people during the partitions?
Do you really think the changing govs and kings and ownerships and borders mattered that much to the Germans and Slavs living there?
1800 years of continous german history in these lands!

I'm laughing at you now :D

Well, we are all laughing at your Lwow-fantasies...we are a funny board! ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
28 Dec 2010
History / Former American President Adams in Poland. [54]

yes BB noting like germanization of Polish lands and resettlement of Poles during partitions so now you can claim that that was Germany

We lived here before you came so its more like polonization than anything else...

BB we can put this to bed,

I "put it to bed" long ago...doesn't mean I keep you denying thousand years of german history in this land.
It would be better you "put it to bed" too and accept the facts. Then we can move on...it's not as if Germany claims it militarily now or in the future.
Bratwurst Boy   
28 Dec 2010
History / Former American President Adams in Poland. [54]

German means ......?
way longer eh? I wouldn't say it !

Inform yourself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Silesia

...Magna Germania [b](second century) records that between the Celtic and the Slavic period, Lower Silesia was inhabited by a number of Germanic tribes.[/b] Among them, are the Vandals, the Lugii, and the Silingi, who might have given the Silesia region its name, though it is unclear and thus disputed.

...
By the beginning of the 20th century Lower Silesia had an almost entirely German-speaking and ethnic German population, with the exception of a small Polish-speaking area in the northeastern part of the district of Namslau, Syców and Milicz and a 9%

1800 years of german history in these lands Iron, think about it if you again start to whine about your hole Lwow you had for a few years!
Bratwurst Boy   
24 Dec 2010
Genealogy / Hint for Polish surname seekers [3]

BERNING: ethnicity obscure and meaning uncertain; possibly from German Bär (bear, the animal) or Yiddish name Berko?

All about "Berning".

wiki-de.genealogy.net/Berning_(Familienname)

Herkunft und Bedeutung

* Niederdeutsche Form "Bern", Koseform von Bernhard, mit angehängter Nachsilbe (Suffix)

Low German form of "Bern" short for Bernhard.

Namens Bedeutung Bernhard

Der männliche Vorname Bernhard stammt aus dem Althochdeutschen und bedeutet der Bär, hart, kräftig und stark.

Bernhard stems from the old high German and means bear, hard, strong, robust...
Bratwurst Boy   
21 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Which countries are Americans usually traveling to? [114]

"The truth"...

How many wars have been fought for the one and only "truth". And all are so sure that only they know "the truth".

Give it up man, there is no "truth"...we all just muddle through. If you think you have found "the truth" keep it to yourself and I will keep mine to myself...peace guaranteed! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
20 Dec 2010
History / Lwów, Wilno ... kresy - Poland have lost enormoust part of our heritage... [389]

I mean I have nothing against 'nashyh russkih druziei', but in consequence swallowing Ukraine may lead to turning Poland into the 'Privislanski krai' once again and then, with the subsequent establishing of the direct border with Germany, it will sooner or later lead to confrontation with an outbreak of another world war as already happened twice in the past.

Why?

I don't see sharing a border meaning necessary another world war...
Bratwurst Boy   
20 Dec 2010
Life / Is Poland a place of high culture? [36]

Dadaism died in the early '20s.

Well...alot of the 68'ers put in on their flags again...
(and took it with them to the bins of history hopefully)
Bratwurst Boy   
20 Dec 2010
Life / Is Poland a place of high culture? [36]

Dadaism is still alive?
I thought it already dead and buried with the most of the 68ers...

On the other hand I'm fairly sure the french and the russians had their own books in their knapsacks to help them skewer the Germans.
Bratwurst Boy   
20 Dec 2010
News / US Military: The Army of Poland is crap. [124]

In Iraq (i'm sure in Afghanistan also) Polish soldiers were liked by the local population for respecting Muslims and their ways, like not barging in a house with dogs, or kicking the door in, without trying to knock first.

Do you have a link for that? A poll or something???
Bratwurst Boy   
18 Dec 2010
Language / The Future of Polish Language [179]

Great! I love learning things like that....Linguistic is fascinating! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
18 Dec 2010
Language / The Future of Polish Language [179]

G.B. Shaw once remarked, after all, that the only time his education was interrupted was when he was in school

Great quote! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
18 Dec 2010
Language / The Future of Polish Language [179]

Bratwurst Boy, what I simply meant was that your formative influences, beyond our high school, have been mired in post-Vietnam rebellion and anger at ANY system! I'm sure you had a solid education, but your comments about English, not to mention your frequent vulgarities, seem to bear me out-:)

?

Bratwurst Boy
West Saxon = Wessex

Absolutely interesting!

I would had never thought that still possible understandable in the 20th century..
Bratwurst Boy   
18 Dec 2010
Language / The Future of Polish Language [179]

Of local lineage like 'Thu bist,' 'Er war,'
'Ich woll,' 'Er sholl,' and by-talk similar,

That is german!

Du bist...
Er war...
Ich wollte
Er soll