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Bratwurst Boy   
5 Sep 2010
History / Poles organized the first strike in US in 1619 [72]

You probably imagine a German crematorium now..... :):)

Nah...we would build it much more prettier today..."Vorsprung durch Technik! Jawoll! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
5 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]

Yes,nazis actually believed that ancient Greeks were forefathers of Germans

They also searched in Tibet...;)

But yes, the modern Greeks have not much in common with their famous forefathers (the same with modern Italians/Romans or French/Gauls..)

It's quite sad actually! :(
Bratwurst Boy   
5 Sep 2010
History / Poles organized the first strike in US in 1619 [72]

The dark side in the German soul is really fascinating.

Yes, we are absolutely fascinating! *nods*
Nothing beats a beautiful, well oiled, smooth running machine...
A state like this is a recipe for success, internal and international!
Everybody admires and respects us for this...who admires Poles for their tantrums
and uprisings? (Besides the Poles that is).

*admires self*

:):):)

Let`s say it is a natural tendency to live in a free environment without too many rules and do what one thinks is good for him/her. :):):)

No wonder you got nowhere so often in your past...
But we will help you now! :)
With a bit of german discipline we will help your stuttering
motor up and get it running more smoothly and hence more successfully! ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
5 Sep 2010
History / Poles organized the first strike in US in 1619 [72]

I don't like disorderly, unruly people...always throwing tantrums, protesting, demanding, uprisings, being annoying on principle...not much to be proud of for me!:(

Mind you, maybe it's the German in me! :)

(But I'm so not depressed!!!)
Bratwurst Boy   
5 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]

It did actually.

No it didn't.
If it hadn't been for the fear of France and GB for a strong Germany and hence pushing for a cut of german territory to keep it smaller and more "manageable" all your spirits would had still accounted for nothing.

Poland was the one sole profiteur of WWI and the Treaty of Versailles (well, you and Czechoslovakia), for the rest of Europe it spelled doom! But then...you were just a pawn too. Your fate was decided in Paris, not in Warsaw.
Bratwurst Boy   
5 Sep 2010
History / Poles organized the first strike in US in 1619 [72]

So polish...barely arrived but already organizing uprisings and strikes! :(

They protested against injustice and lack of freedom.

Doesn't matter what's they call it...if they can protest it...;)

The Poles are people of principle and will fight til the last :)

No wonder they got nowhere...
That must have been some relatives of the Kaczinsky's...always throwing tantrums if they feel they aren't in the focus of the world for a second!

Listen, this reminds me,... Polish language should be official in EU, not the English. i mean if we wants to live according to best examples of European values and culture, if we speak of native Europe

How is your polish Crowie?
But I bet your english is better than any polish...
Shouldn't you start posting on a polish language board??? (Please!)
How do you expect others to follow your vision if you yourself doesn't even care?
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]

In land battle GB would be taken in something like six days, thats about the time it takes to drive across the island but we're talking sea and air war here.

That brings us back to my first statement:

They were lucky alone for geographical reasons. If they had shared a border with Germany they would had been overrun like everybody else..
Nothing to be proud of actually!

;)

PS: Any news from your friend with the photos about the gendarmerie?
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]

You missed the point, destroying the Brits wouldnt change much, they still had the navy and airforce and thats what mattered.

Their airforce and navy wouldn't had stopped them from being blockaded into surrender...
Destruction wasn't necessary...isolation would had done the trick!

since its 1940-41 than the only people resisting are the Poles.

Hmmm.....not wanting to go into another p*issing match but the war with Poland was over after 4 weeks in 1939 and there wasn't that much happening till the France war.

he wanted Stalingrad like that and look how it ended.

I really wouldn't compare GB with the eastern Front! ;)
I doubt that GB would had been able to kill 80 percent of our best forces...
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]

Apart from Poland Germans didnt really need much, France was by and large a bunch of ***** collaborators, Low Countries were small, Poland required some effort but even it was occupied by some 200.000 men and that was the most Germans ever put into one country as occupying force.

So, the only ones fighting actually had been the Poles...everybody else just rolled over?
Hitler didn't need the Wehrmacht actually? ;)

Half of what? UK didnt have an army to speak of and airforce was much more then half.

Compare Hitler/Dunkirk and Hitler/Stalingrad....his heart just wasn't innit.
There just wasn't the "I want it at all costs and if you all have to croak for it!" spirit!
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]

I think it was called "Fall Seelöwe" (Operation Sealion).

It was never even started...there had been alot of thought games by the smarties in the general staff which never had seen the eventual light of the day.

No country can stand against the entire world and win in the long run. It's simply not pssble.

Agreed of course!

That's all I'm going to say about this in this thread. Perhaps we can discuss this in the animal abuse thread? (sorry mods, this was a one-off)

I can't find anything about it! :(

Actually it was not,

Actually it was. Look at the map...There is only so much of Europe an army of the size of Germany can conquer and occupy to NOT call it overstretched.

Today even the combined force of the US and UK call themselves overstretched in Iraq alone...

Well in real life blockade with submarines was attempted and didnt work out.

It did work quite well actually....the Brits got into mean problems, but again, Hitler wasn't with his heart innit...(Dunkirk, BoB, U-boats)
Only half of the concentration as against Russia and they would had barely a problem but somehow he had a soft spot for them Brits....
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]

Hitler was an idiot, I think here we all agree...;)

But I'm not sure an invasion was ever on the table or if that had been feasible. The german army was overstretched from the beginning.

I would had chosen a blockade with our wolf packs....some starving blockade medicine back from what they did to Germany 1918/1919...
At one point they would be forced to negotiate and not so much hassle with urban warfare and all that entails.

M-G (the puppy killer has been caught!)

YAY!!!! :):):)
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]

Britain was just lucky there.

They were lucky alone for geographical reasons. If they had shared a border with Germany they would had been overrun like everybody else..
Nothing to be proud of actually!
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]

I wouldn't say it was a defeat, would you? It was definitively sth else.

Hmmm...I would say...since it never was a one-on-one battle in military terms but rather a slaughtering of defenseless civilians it can't be talked about in military terms as in defeat or victory IMHO.
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2010
Life / Best of two worlds - Poland and... Germany [29]

Görlitz had always been a pensioner town....even to prussian times...nice, quiet...gemütlich! :)
Also tourists are coming more since the gems Görlitz has to offer had been renovated so well after decades of commie neglect.

Maybe a business catering to the elder ones and tourists would have a bigger chance of success!
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]

Or the democratization doesn't prevent war,

I don't believe in that anymore.

Most polls during the build up and during the Iraq/Afghanistan war had shown a majority against this.
They still happened....the only consequence for some politicians had been that they lost their jobs after the next voting.
But still the the armies were innit for years.

Democracies are perfectly capable of going to war even if not attacked. Their people don't even have the apology of living in a dictatorship which threatens them if they utter their opinion or of lacking of knowledge about the backgrounds and actual happenings.
Bratwurst Boy   
3 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]

Which is the essence of Polish spirit.

Ummm...that is not "polish"...I would say that is quite common feeling!
Poles don't have the monopoly on feeling patriotic! ;)

This is why Poland emerged again despite the active russification and germanization efforts on part of the occupying powers (Austro-Hungary being the exception) spanning over 120 years.

Na ja....it needed a war and the victors deciding on giving Poland their independence....

Their polish spirit didn't help them much during the 120 years!

Following your logic an average limey should go and say : "Hi my name is John Smith and I come from Germany",

His ancestor very probably was called originally Johann Schmidt and came from Germany! :):);)

Unfortunately, over here, we have a lot of people (usually liberal-lefties, naturally) who think that no-one is allowed to call themselves "indigenous British"

Because the indegenous Brit is a German! :)

*ducks and runs*
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2010
Life / Best of two worlds - Poland and... Germany [29]

Haha, you love France the most, the country that "everyone" else in Europe hates

That both are joined at the hip now doesn't mean "love".
Countries don't love each other...but when you want to use this imagery we are more like the grown old couple knowing each other to well to go hot over the same old topics again and again and again. They might not even like each other but they respect and accept each other because they have gone through so much. There is not much passion left...(which is a good thing IMHO)!

;)

I'm all dizzy now

"Europe" in a nutshell! :):):)
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]

Disagree.

Hmm...I wonder about that...
What would have happened if Bismarck would still had hold the reigns? (Disregarding natural facts like age for a moment)
Wouldn't the old master of Realpolitik somehow found a way to avoid the sparking of the fire?
He would had kicked everybody's ass, also the military's, such was his charisma and power.

*you are speaking with a serious Bismarck-fanboy here so be nice* ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]

Not in 1871?

Hmm....not 1871 per se...I would agree with the date of the ousting of Bismarck...here rational and well balanced foreign policy ended.

If East Germans were not really Germans because they were commies

Then stop vomiting such crap!
Or I will call all Poles Commies (and I would have even more right to do that after all they were allies with Stalin).
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2010
Life / Best of two worlds - Poland and... Germany [29]

How about France, Denmark or Austria, would you say they get more time in your media than Poland?

France definitely...we even share a TV station using german/french language and with german/french program.
There is alot of interconnection on all possible topics going...
The decades of trying to join us on the hip show definitely success! ;)

Denmark is close to Schleswig Holstein and na ja Austria...it's a german province anyhow (pssst, don't tell them, they like to believe they are different...well they suck at football so maybe it's true!)

Not to mention that millions of Germans travel every year south to invade again! :):):)

;)

And if you have the time and energy, would you rank the countries Germany borders with and tell us who you rate highest-lowest in your opinion (good-bad neighbour)

I personally became very interested in Poland recently...
But then, regarding my family history, I'm very excited about the development of our border region, knowing abit of our shared past. We are witnessing history here...slow going history, but history nonetheless. I have great hopes for our region.

(I like Hungary, find Prague just beautiful, call myself a nostalgic ex-Silesian and are not so much interested in the western neighbours)

It matters where you live...western Germans have of course more connections with the western neighbours like Holland or France. Eastern Germans should be more interested in Germany's eastern neighbours...but I think that many Poles harbor more grudges against Eastern Germans and are more ready to "forgive" western Germans, even as they care even less for them than Eastern Germans...I dunno why that is!

Some Poles don't even regard Eastern Germans as "real" Germans :):):)

Is the problem with "Polish crime" really that big in Germany BB? The thefts of cars and so on?

Sadly yes, it IS a problem...not only some hyped prejudice!

I guess from your comments, you don't find to many "Visit Poland" brochures and posters hanging in the local travel-agency then?

A (in Poland fairly unknown) phenomenon is that the majority of those Germans really interested in Poland are those whose family ties point to the ex-territories. I know of nobody who plans to invade and demands them back but they know more of Polands history and what natural gems Poland has to offer than your usual travel agency (or the usual German).

So that most travels are organized between them and they build a big part of the german-polish travel industry.
Sadly again some Poles see them not as sympathetic tourist cows to milk but as some "Neo-Nazi threat" only out to get the poor, unsuspecting Pole again.

But I also read that that is changing and Poles start to see these tourists more positively as the asset to their economy they are.

I really have hopes for the future! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]

And you think an American or British soldier wasn't shot if he refused to fight?

There had been actually only one case of that (Cowardice in front of the enemy) in the US army (Pvt Slovik) and only a few in the british army (and both after they had their trials)...as far as I know.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Slovik

Correct me if I'm wrong...
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]

@Bratwurst: Oh stop it. The Russians were part of the Allies until 1945/46 and as being so, they defeated the Nazis.

Where did I deny that?
But you said:

Well, the Commies beat the Nazis, didn't they?

I would not even call the majority of the Russians Commies, not to speak of the overwhelming majority of the other Allies. For them it was a defense war (not that they had much choice with the machine guns of the NKVD behind them anyhow).

It was more a case of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

The commies profited from Hitlers stupidity....if he had been smarter he would had build a world wide anti-Stalin alliance.

No, the Commies didn't beat Hitler!

PS: In the first weeks of Barbarossa the Wehrmacht took Millions of russian soldiers POW...they were not fanatical commies wanting to fight to the death for the "cause".

Only as became known that Hitler had likewise not their best in mind they decided rather to fight than just to lay their weapons down.