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MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]
A controversial issue, Duda! To be sure, there will likely always be lingering prejudice against Poles, particularly amonst older Germans, that, those who either survived the Nazi era or who grew up immediately after the war and whose memory of Poles is that of farm hands or simple manual laborers who were taken to Germany, impregnated German women, and typically (a la Mexicans here in the States) never learned to speak German well:-) As here in the States, they are often the butt of unkind jokes.
Ask a German about the Poles, and indeed, you're likely not to hear much positive, unfortunately. Although times DO change, change is slow throughout Europe, in Germany, it seems an eternity!
I can only add that perhaps the Turks are a step below the Poles in common national perception, because again, many Poles are said to have some distant Germanic heritage, and after all, are white, European Christians.
