History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

What separates humans from the four-legged variety of animal is their practiced ability to control language. Those high-minded verities (basic truths) you sneer at are the only things worth defending:-) If not, then might as well move into the local zoo and rent space next to a tiger, hippo or giraffe!

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

The question is meant to provoke, not inform and is therefore worthless.

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

I did indeed

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

You're rationalizing mass killing to justify the means.

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

The quote was .."we know more about death than we know about life, more about killing than we do about living..."

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

You didn't understand the post or you would have responded appropriately:-)

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

Quit rationalízing! By the end of '45, even the winners were losers if their sons or daughters tragically perished in the eternal pursuit of justice. Sacrifice too has its human limits! In the oft quoted words of four-star general and hero Omar Bradley, "We won a war and lost a peace, we know more about death than we do about killing than we do about living. This is the 2Oth century's claim to progress and distinction."

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

Tell that to those widows and or family members...STRAIGHT TO THEIR SEETHING FACES!! Then watch as they beat you black and blue.

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

I simply mean that revenge bombing such as Dresden and the like won't bring back Hitler's victims! Millions of German innocents lost their lives too. Why should they have paid for Nazi crimes?

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

As to the last half of your post just now, I can agree in part.

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

Tito was an anti-Nazi, though not a Judeophile!

Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

Polish pride? Szopen, for starters:-)

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

However Marshal Josip Broz aka Títo, did a great deal to buck that regretable trend.

Life / So I found out the guy I was prepping myself to fight in Warsaw [19]

Narodowcu, your real handle should be Glupiec! LOL

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

I missed nothing my good man!There were gung-ho Browns and hard line Reds, extremists, just like anywhere.

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

Not all Germans were Nazís any more than not all Russians were Commies:-)

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

There was also plenty of Tsarist Era anti-Semitism to go around such as Count Vyacheslav von Plehve, so don't please let's single out Poland! And then there was the Ukrainian nationalist Petlura.

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

Here it comes.

History / What Hitler really thought about Poles? Hitler's letter to Himmler 1944 [111]

You mean like AH's propaganda about the Jews? Hitler referred to Poles along other Slavs as "subhumans", and that's in Mein Kampf! This is the truth.

UK, Ireland / The best way for a Polish person to learn English? [46]

G&S on the legitimate London stage is an excellent way to hear the highest of RP known to the English-speaking world:-)

UK, Ireland / The best way for a Polish person to learn English? [46]

Moreover, the English isn't even taught by Anglo-Saxon native speakers!

UK, Ireland / The best way for a Polish person to learn English? [46]

You actually have a point. It cuts both ways too. Anglos wanting to learn a foreign language abroad in recent years (pre-Covid, of course) are often met with a slew of well-intentioned folks eager to barrage them with broken English while usually unwilling to concede to the simple fact that plenty of Anglophones might know their language more competently than the foreigner knows English:-)

Anybody with close caption capabilities on their phone or home PC can readily turn on or off the English captions at the bottom of the screen. This technique works for all languages.

UK, Ireland / The best way for a Polish person to learn English? [46]

People used to learn English through Spotlight English or SKY-Channel.

UK, Ireland / The best way for a Polish person to learn English? [46]

The challenges for a random Polish learner are naturally entirely different from those of a random English learner! For one thing, Polish remains by in large vastly unfamiliar to native Anglophones save those of Polish background, they simply don't bother studying any foreign language except for absolute language requirememts e.g. highschool Spanish. Poles on the other hand are obligated to study English, force fed, just as the whole world is obligated to lear basic arithmetic, regardless whether they've a speck of talent for it or not:-) No foreigner is legally required to study Polish.

UK, Ireland / The best way for a Polish person to learn English? [46]

Anything's got to be better than Pimsleur, Berlitz or Rosetta Stone.

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

Maybe, Mr. Grunvald. A more fitting expression might have been "an act of WANTON violence.."

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

Yep, clear language interference, that's for sure. How does the English word "meaningless" describe Katyn?? A literal translation from the Romanian, perhaps?

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

Humor isn't your shtick, I see.

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

Jackie Mason quips that Israelis look like Puerto Ricans with a tanLOL

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

EVERY nation has been a "victim" sometime in their history.