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Bratwurst Boy   
16 Oct 2009
History / What Was Happening in Poland around 1905? [73]

I've thought so too but there are more people than one would think who are not mixed and if then only in their cultural group...

This census asked about this too...more people than not claimed both sides one heritage only!

PS: Did you know that even Obama has german roots???

...Genealogists at the No.1 family history Web site revealed that President Obama's German ancestor was born Johann Conrad Wolflin on January 29, 1729. He immigrated in 1750, sailing to America on the ship Patience. Johann Conrad changed his last name to Wolfley once he settled among other German immigrants in Pennsylvania. His son, Ludwig Wolfley, President Obama's 5th great-grandfather, was born in 1766 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This research confirms that President Obama is one of the 17 percent of Americans with German ancestry.*

Bratwurst Boy   
16 Oct 2009
History / What Was Happening in Poland around 1905? [73]

They look at the records it said German therefore I’m German.

Oh please....then why didn't they became Germans, Austrians or Russians during the partitions??? Even today after centuries in Polonia they didn't forgot their roots (nor did the Germans)!
Bratwurst Boy   
16 Oct 2009
History / What Was Happening in Poland around 1905? [73]

Well, that may be but the census we are talking about (where the german heritage group is the biggest in the US) was recent. People where asked about their heritage, I doubt that any Pole was forced to say "German"....

So the numbers should quite correct!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American

German Americans

50,764,352
17.1% of the US population (2006) [6]

Bratwurst Boy   
28 Sep 2009
History / Polish military in 1939 in pictures. [107]

Also who says only Germans had monopoly on cool propaganda posters:)

What does it say?

(Please not "Berlin in one week" or so....)
Bratwurst Boy   
28 Sep 2009
History / Polish military in 1939 in pictures. [107]

#1
Goebbels claimed that Poles attacked tanks with sabers and foul languag

It wasn't Göbbels....

historynet.com/polish-cavalry-charges-tanks.htm

....This "skirmish at Krojanty," described in sensationalist terms by journalists like William Shirer, is almost certainly the source material for the fanciful tale of Polish cavalry charging tanks....

Somehow the same with "polish jokes"...Poles are eager to pin all their warts on Germans somehow....
Bratwurst Boy   
19 Sep 2009
News / Do Poles in Poland really feel betrayed because there won't be any US Shield? [288]

Call me naive but besides some terrorist nutters I don't see any threat for Poland at all. Poland is neighbour to Germany and in the EU, member of the NATO....

There is NOBODY in his right mind threatening you (or Germany for that matter).

When you think Germany would get support from London or Paris because of the proximity then take a look at the map... how far is Warsaw or Breslau from Berlin??? A whole lot nearer...

...French support...yeah...sure...
Bratwurst Boy   
19 Sep 2009
News / Do Poles in Poland really feel betrayed because there won't be any US Shield? [288]

many of them really admire Russia

Or they just prefer realpolitik....

And honestly I can understand russian suspicion and wish for safe borders...everybody with an inkling of history should.
I don't think on the other hand Russia has imperial ambitions as the british, the french or even the german empire once had who were nearly continously in other peoples countries.

(Not to mention the french, german and once also Poles who couldn't wait for an invitation to visit Moscow and brought their whole armies with them...)
Bratwurst Boy   
19 Sep 2009
News / Do Poles in Poland really feel betrayed because there won't be any US Shield? [288]

so what was the threats of those Iskanders at the Polish border for???

A gamble against the Ami-missiles!
(I personally would had started talks with Castro instead...now that would had hurt them...)
;)

I just don't see any offensive measures Poland or America take against Russia for quite some time now

Trade is a better weapon than any isolation or agressiveness...believe me...
Bratwurst Boy   
19 Sep 2009
News / Do Poles in Poland really feel betrayed because there won't be any US Shield? [288]

I firmly believed Russians deliberately fuelled the conflict.

Well Gumi...it's not only the Ossetians but the Abkhazians too.
They both begged Moscow for help against bully Georgia.
Both want their independence and take any help they can get and who want's to blame them for that.

I say...if you want independence for yourself and your own people you shouldn't deny it to others!

it does not really matter - they have some of their strategic nuclear weapons aimed at some Polish locations for sure - an empty gesture

You don't really believe they will nuke Poland any time soon, don't you?
Bratwurst Boy   
19 Sep 2009
News / Do Poles in Poland really feel betrayed because there won't be any US Shield? [288]

they did invade Georgia - they did destroy plenty of infrastructure there including parts of Tbilisi airstrip - what is this if not an invasion?

Well...put the blame where it belongs, to Saakashvili...he startet it all and reaped what he sowed.
His plan was clear...attacking, betting the the russian bear would move, then crying to Nato for help as in: "Look...this monster is bullying little poor, innocent 'ol me...you HAVE to come and help me....can I become a member in the NATO now?"

It didn't work, period!

No one with a brain cell supports this nut anymore...even his own Georgians have enough of him!

csmonitor.com/2009/0409/p06s15-wogn.html

...Tbilisi, Georgia - Tens of thousands of Georgians protested peacefully in front of the country's Parliament Thursday to demand the resignation of Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili. ...

csmonitor.com/2009/0409/p06s01-woeu.html

Mass protests in Georgia aim to unseat Saakashvili. As many as 100,000 people are expected to demonstrate Thursday against the president.

Bratwurst Boy   
19 Sep 2009
News / Do Poles in Poland really feel betrayed because there won't be any US Shield? [288]

BB - is South Ossetia part of Russia??? WTF were Russians doing on a territory of some other's state?

If I remember it right the South Ossetians asked them to....they were scared of the Georgians....

news.bbc/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/3797729.stm

...It came as no surprise when South Ossetians voted overwhelmingly in favour of restating their demand for independence from Tbilisi in an unrecognised referendum in November 2006. A simultaneous referendum among the region's ethnic Georgians voted just as emphatically to stay with Tbilisi.

Russia maintains close contacts with the leadership in Tskhinvali where separatists welcome Moscow's supportive stance. To Georgia's deep annoyance, most South Ossetians have Russian passports and the Russian rouble is commonly used in trade. ..

It seems the Ossetians want their independence, if not full scale integration into Russia...
Bratwurst Boy   
19 Sep 2009
News / Do Poles in Poland really feel betrayed because there won't be any US Shield? [288]

sorry - what lie - did Georgia attack Russia?

Erm...I don't know about the polish commentators gumi but the international jury is quite clear in this case!

spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,641489,00.html

....
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is preparing the Georgian population for the planned publication in September of the European Union's report into the five-day war between Georgia and Russia in August 2008. The document is expected to assign primary responsibility for the attack on the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali to Saakashvili -- with the qualification that Moscow provoked him....

spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,630543,00.html

He gambled for the West's (yes, okay, the Bushies) support to get him into the NATO...and...well...he lost.

...However, NATO and EU experts have so far found no evidence to support Georgian claims that a Russian column of 150 tanks and armored vehicles had advanced into South Ossetia before the Georgian attack on Tskhinvali....

Bratwurst Boy   
14 Sep 2009
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Therefore I have 100% Polish Kielbasa blood flowing through my veins.

You mean half german/half polish???

It's called: Kielwurst....or Bratbasa my some too...
Bratwurst Boy   
23 Aug 2009
Genealogy / Polish Gypsy Roots & Roma ancestors in their families [205]

You just leapt on me :D

Sorry, but you had it coming for awhile now.
Had to be said and maybe cleared the air and we can declare the plate cleaned now....

You take me as a human Bratwurst Boy being instead of a WWII-Hitler-whatever-reincarnation and I let you hug trees and gain wisdom as much as you want, deal?
Bratwurst Boy   
23 Aug 2009
Genealogy / Polish Gypsy Roots & Roma ancestors in their families [205]

And it's crap anyhow!
On another thread he burdened our board Russian Sasha with the same kind of "eternal shame" he should feel because of what is grandfathers did (or not did).

Lodz is as racist as everybody, he generalizes and hates whole peoples if it fits his bias like everybody else.
And he specializes in "collective guilt" for whole peoples and their descendants for all times (all but his own of course).

The difference is everybody else is honest about it but him. He prefers to put on a tree hugging, goody-two-shoes, I love you all - face!

Probably feeling himself all good, enlightened and high above us other poor creatures.
But he is only a hypocrite!

I just don't know to whom he lies more..to himself or to the board!

You know Lodz, when you have a gripe with ME (Bratwurst Boy), then come out and discuss it with ME like a man. Don't hide yourself behind Hitler or WWII-allusions all the time!
Bratwurst Boy   
23 Aug 2009
Genealogy / Polish Gypsy Roots & Roma ancestors in their families [205]

But what can I do. When I hear 'Germany' I remember many things, many stories, a certain dear and beloved person in my family had a great grudge against Germans for very credible reasons.

Who cares...but it would be more honest to stop your inanely blahblah about "love" and be honest to yourself and the others...

Makes you look like an idiot, a hypocritical idiot!
Bratwurst Boy   
23 Aug 2009
Genealogy / Polish Gypsy Roots & Roma ancestors in their families [205]

The simplest thing in the world is love. The toughest thing is to love. The rarest thing is love. The most abundant can only be love.

Yeah...I can feel your love for me Lodz!

If there is a really sick thing it's someone pretending and preaching love and harboring hate and racist grudges against one other country anyhow.

You are worse than Crow or any other nutter on this board. They are at leat honest about themselves and their views, you instead are a hypocrite of the highest order...you fool nobody

boy!
Take your "love" and shove it!
Bratwurst Boy   
21 Aug 2009
Genealogy / Polish Gypsy Roots & Roma ancestors in their families [205]

In Berlin the gypsy women and children get quite annoying...they harass people, beg for money, dirty, always a little one on the arm, outstretched hand thrust into the face of some unsuspecting passersby, always some abstruse story barely understandably, getting quite agressive and abusive when not satisfied etc.

And you just KNOW that the men wait and observe behind some bushes collecting the money!
They have knifes...

A plague...
Bratwurst Boy   
14 Aug 2009
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Where did he (his family) get the name "Berlin" from if he is 100 percent polish???

This is a famous German and sometimes Ashkenasic surname. It is usually locational and describes a former inhabitant of Berlin who had moved somewhere else. However in the 18th century Berlin was also used as an abstract or ornamental surname for immigrants from Southern and Central Europe, who flooded into Germany, then regarded as the most liberal area in Europe...

...
The first recording that we have been able to prove positively is that of Hans Bernhard Berlin, given as being the Burger of Heilbron in the year 1407. He may be the same person who is recorded as Hans Berlin in 1414, also in Heilbron.

wiki-de.genealogy.net/Berlin_(Familienname)
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Aug 2009
Travel / Castles and Palaces in Poland (with pictures) [155]

German past is German past not our past,

I fully agree!
That's why calling something german with a polish name still doesn't make it polish....