Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

I quite agree. The hair is often coarse in texture, the features generally more sculptured, yet smooth.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

I know personally several older Polish Jews who proudly display the Polish flag in their livingroom. Despite everything, they forgave their gentile fellow countrymen their anti-Semitism.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

You sound just like the fella Fritz Hippler whose propaganda claimed Jews couldn't ever be "real" Germans. What bunk!

News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]

Hatred cuts both ways, people.

News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]

Now that Trump's out of the picture, hopefully for the forseeable future, ol' Volodya's the sole remaining threat to humanity.

News / Poland - Germany's 5th largest trade partner [33]

What else, B.B.?

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

@Novi, Jews were in a minority and hardly in a position to save much of anybody, least of all one other.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Not ALL Germans were Nazis any more than ALL Poles are were anti-Semites or ALL US Southern Anglos are born-again Klanies and similar generalizations!

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Germany's Jews felt themselves German.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Error duly acknowleged and apology on my end hopefully accepted. In future though, kindly refer in said context to "Germans" as "Nazis", since obviously not all Germans were Nazis, or even Nazi leaning. Also, Germany's considered themselves kaisertreu and German to the core!

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Why such hostility against Jews, Novi?

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Armed resistance is often unavoidable.

Work / Working as a PL-EN translator - good idea? Sworn translators in Poland. [27]

Certain translation bloopers are hysterical!

News / Poland - Germany's 5th largest trade partner [33]

The brother of Shiva LOL

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Shooting from the hip too often is also a result of failed diplomacy.

Work / Working as a PL-EN translator - good idea? Sworn translators in Poland. [27]

Tell me about it! I was raised at home in New York with German ríght alongside English for the immediate formative years, later formally in college. Had I not grown up with it, I could never translate into German as well as English. Into Polish?? Never!

Work / Working as a PL-EN translator - good idea? Sworn translators in Poland. [27]

As an accredited translator, I was taught in school NEVER to translate into the target language, unless a bonafide, certified bilingual.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

A tough stand might sound ok, but sometimes a feather is what's needed, not a sledgehammer.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Don't be so sure.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Jews admire Mickiewicz if they teach literature, Szopen aka Chopin if they love music, and Wójtyla et al.if they love life:-)

News / Poland - Germany's 5th largest trade partner [33]

Historically, you have a point. As to the thread topic, this will make it even more to the Germans' advantage to learn Polísh, although many Poles already know German.

News / Poland - Germany's 5th largest trade partner [33]

@Ziemowicie, I was referring to France's size, not it's location:-)

News / Poland - Germany's 5th largest trade partner [33]

Poland is Germany's largest neighbor after France. No wonder.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

You're mistaken! The ever-popular Roman Dmowski wasn't exactly a friend of the Jews. Read "Kwestia zydowska"!

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

To which "they" were you referring?

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Poles, similar to the Austrians, but unlike the Germans, often seem unwilling to admit to either anti-Semitism or even Nazi leanings in wartime Poland.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

As I'd already mentioned many times, Poland had a broader resistance movement than nearly any other European country, brave, unsung heroes, showing us that even a bunch of rotten apples can't ruin the whole crop!!

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Then by that paultry definition, Novi, sainthood was tainted by devilry undisguided.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Until '45, defeated Germany had been the most recalcitrantly un- yea ANTI-democratic country in all Europe, whose Weimar Republic was about the most tragi-comic joke of modern history, prior of course to Chamberlain's "assurance" that "Herr Hitler desires peace in our time!LOL

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Reminds me a little of the erstwhile "Historians' Debate" in Germany during the 198O's. The Right typically relativized the horror of the Holocaust and the Left stressed its horrible uniqueness.