News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

But destroying Merkel is, once again, throwing out the proverbial baby with the proverbial bathwater. The only logical future for Germany or any country
must be democracy, using debate and discussion, not strong-arm tactics a la Donald Trump!

News / Poland's new golden age : shifting from Europe's periphery to its center [29]

While it is sadly the case, that not only well-intended funds have frequently been diverted, as you say, and that furthermore, there have been even more disgusting examples of those seeking to profit from said funds by either embellishing or outright lying about being survivors (much less being Jewish), the idea of justified compensation is obviously the only right, just action which could be taken!

As in any human situation, plenty of rotten apples spoil the whole batch.

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

Look at the past in order to gain perspective on the present!
1933 - "Der Staatsakt" - Hitler shakes a doddering Hindenburg's hand in the latter's moment of weakness.
2020 - Hoecke shakes Ramelow's hand in front of Thomas Kemmerich in a last ditch concession by the SPD to curry favor with the enemy

The tell-tale signs are smackin' ya in the face, buddy:-)

Life / Best Polish actor/actress ever? [35]

Leon Niemczyk?

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

Germans will surely learn the errors of Hoecke's ways and see the the liberal agenda, with some alterations, is the only path for Germany.

If they don't, they and the rest of Europe will have hell to pay, that's for sure.

Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]

I as well, Milo.
At least we both can laugh at ourselves. Although I'm not a Catholic,
I did find his irreverent fun poking no end a delight!

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

Normally, I can as a rule distinguish random Poles from Russians or certain other Slavs on the street by their facial bone structure, not necessarily by their hair, eye color or even skin tone.

Often I'm right, though one doesn't usually go about staring at total strangers, does one:-)

Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]

If you let it be so.
Tell me, would the late George Carlin have "offended" you in his masterful irreverence?
Just curious:-)

Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]

Precisely!

Not by working, but by buying low and selling high.
Just remember, as in Morse code, "short, short,......LONG"
:-)

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

A glib remark, Spike31, but I'm not even so sure that Polish nationalism has as much of a bright future as you may think.

If anything, it's the Croats, Slovenes, and of course, the Serbs, against whom we must all be on our guard!

Lyzko, please stop "chopping" your sentences by the "enter" key

Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]

Blasphemy can be indeed offensive, yet scarcely a punishable offense! Swearing against the Allmighty can actually
serve as almost a cathartic release of anger in times of stress.

Eliminate the stress and, I suppose, you'll eliminate the need to be blasphemous:-)

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

...and an Austrian Emperor:-)

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

Quit makin' stuff up and grasping at straws!

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

Vesko, we don't need any more Nazi sympathizers on this Forum than we already have, thank you very much!

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

Prussia was responsible for land reforms which helped the enviably rapid industrialization of Germany during the middle to latter half of the 19th century!! Von Stein, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (the latter two war ship names during WWII) represented a triumvirate of significant reformers who helped to transform Northern Germany from a rural into an industrial power:-)

Language / New Years wishes in Polish? [56]

Oh, sure, only not available everywhere:-)
Still looking to buy "Rzeczpospolita" in Manhattan, but unfortunately only available in Greenpoint(:-

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

Exactly.

"I am a Frankfurter..." [...with or without (Duesseldorf) mustard]
"I am a Hamburger..:[...hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special order don't upset us...he-he]

Y'all get the point!

Hey, if Cem Ozdemir ever runs for Chancellor, "Ich bin ein Doener!"
LOL

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

JFK's famous phrase has gone down in history as the perhaps the most laughably quoted "foreign" pronouncement made by any sitting US president.

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

While you're removing stuff, how about pizza. crepe suzettes, Swedish meatballs, McDonalds etc... Why should xenophobia extend to the kitchen as well??
STUPID STUFF, GUYS!!!

Language / New Years wishes in Polish? [56]

Guess the Nowy Dziennik thinks so too.

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

Exactly. The Internet is where everything gets twisted every which way, above all, the facts!

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

De facto, Spike31?

History / Why is Vatican traditionally on German and not on Polish side? [65]

Once again though, Tacitus, as a historian, you're also well aware of the dangers of revisionist history.
Ever since the so-called "Historikerstreit" in the early '70's and well into the present, there's been a tendency world wide, not only in Germany by a long shot, to marginalize the significance of various institutions at the time in facilitating Hitler's maintaining power. Sadly, the Vatican has become a casualty, many of her wounds, barely able to be healed.

Ck out a recent >SPIEGEL< article from several weeks ago, "Der Daemokrat", a disturbing expose of Hoecke's attempt to curry favor with the SPD in order to work his fatal agenda into local Parliament from his home state of Thuringia!

History / Why is Vatican traditionally on German and not on Polish side? [65]

Rolf Hochhuth, Friedrich Duerrenmatt among several other post-War German-language authors were heroes of the pen and brought out skeletons in the closet, long hoped to have been dead and buried.

:-)

History / Why is Vatican traditionally on German and not on Polish side? [65]

Factually one-hundred percent correct!
Whilst I see no particular flaw in your logic, there is though no doubt that the Vatican has received a black eye over the decades, not only on the part of Israel as well as the Jews.

History / Why is Vatican traditionally on German and not on Polish side? [65]

Ya see that! I promised I wouldn't and I broke my promiseLOL

@AntV,
I am suggesting that Mussolini in particular would have perhaps had closer ties with the Vatikan, that's for sure.
Even a lapsed Catholic theoretically nevertheless remains a nominal Catholic.

History / Why is Vatican traditionally on German and not on Polish side? [65]

Had the Vatikan though never entered into a Konkordat/Concordat, perhaps the former would have had more leeway in negotiating a palpable stance which might have stymied Hitler as well as Mussolini from gravitating towards complete autonomy as they did.

However, this would come under the "Guesswork School" of historiography of which no serious historian aka historiographer whom I know or studied under is a fan:-)

History / Why is Vatican traditionally on German and not on Polish side? [65]

@AntV, as a history professor, I've read copiously over the years on this subject, yes, even the perfervid scribblings of Messrs. Irving and various "Historikerstreitler", namely Nolte and Hillgruber and so don't need your condescending remarks! I also never once labled Pius XII an anti-Semite per se. The Vatican most definitely DID choose to look the other way on numerous former Nazis, not the least of whom was a certain Alois Brunner:-)

@Tacitus,
As a historian yourself, I concur with your comments, yet it is equally true that Pius' conflicted reactions to both the Jewish Question as well as Nazism in general made him the object of severe criticism after the War as well.

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

The Japanese mentality has often been compared to the German, pre-WWII German, that is:-)

History / Why is Vatican traditionally on German and not on Polish side? [65]

Thing is, it's not nor will it ever be baloney!

I too stand by my facts, not my own opinions. Don't take it personally. :)

Ck out the history of "passes" (Persilscheine) allowed to Ex-Nazis to escape to Nazi-friendly South American countries towards the end of as well as after WWII.

I ought to have said, "stand by THE facts."
Then again, it does depend on which history you read.

Pius XII was a curious figure though!
On the one hand, he did indeed persevere and speak out against Bolshevism and Nazism in the very beginning, this though changed much later during the War.