History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

TheOther
Please pay attention to the part which says - found that the Colonization Commission's rules forbade him as a Pole to build a permanent dwelling on his land

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_deportations

History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drzyma%C5%82a%27s_wagon

History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]



Ever heard of 'rugi pruskie'? We learn about it in schools. It started as a mass deportation and confiscation of properties of hundreds of thousands Poles (and to a lesser extent Jews with non-prussian citizenship) however with time any Pole could be dispossessed at any moment.

And of course every Pole heard about Drzymała's Van - a man called Drzymała whose property was taken away cheated the Prussian law by living in a van.

History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

"The Jews own the buildings, and we own the streets."
HAHAHA! The guy obviosly doesn't know where this saying came from! When Poland was partitioned, in the Prussian Patrition Poles were not allowed to own houses. Their property was confiscated and sold to Prussians - and Jews! They were sometimes allowed to stay in the house, but they had to pay a rent to the new owner, quite often a Jew, which naturally made them pissed. And that's how the saying was made. The man has the right to feel wronged but it's increadibly funny that he would use THAT particular saying. And while we're at it my family's property was taken by communists as well and we're Polish. So it has nothing to do with antisemitism, it's simply bad luck.

Edit - I reread what i wrote and a certain realization struck me - what happened to the confiscated property of Poles after Poalnd regained independance? Were Jews dispossessed and the property went back to the rightful owners? Just how many of those Jewish houses 'stolen' by Poles were stolen FROM the Poles just 20 years earlier?