History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

You feel maligned, admitted. We too in the States maligned ourselves, such as slavery and the Native American issue.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

I "did" nothing to Poland!

There were upstanding Poles who tried to alert the West to what was happening. One was Jan Karski. On the resistance side, there was of course Leopold Socha, the Lwov sewer official, who hid Jews at great risk to his own life as well as that of his family:-)

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

Define please for us "Zionist". When you're done, then "Jewish Supremacist", because honestly, you don;t understand what the f***k you're takling about...in either language:-)

lol

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

Scarcely, if you even bothered to read my English! Poland however, unlike Denmark, Albania or Bulgaria, DID persist in abetting Hitler's anti-semitic policies. Like elsewhere, there was as much collaboration in Poland as there was resistance, although clearly in Poland, there was much, much more resistance than in either Germany, Switzerland, or Austria.

Motto of the story? NO country is or was "perfect", so quit whining and fess up to the facts!! Neither gentile nor Jewish Poles were angels, period.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

I'm not a Zionist, though trying to convince the ignorant of the truth is like trying to sail upstream without a paddleLOL

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

While I never ONCE as much as intimated that Poland was "responsible" for the Holocaust (your words, not mine), without local cooperation, upon which Hitler was banking heavily, the Holocaust wouldn' have proceeded as astonishingly quickly as it did! This is a fact, look it up in Raul Hillberg's monumentally resarched "The Destruction of the Jews" - unabridged version!

Poland, much as throughout the rest of Catholic Europe, had been spoon-fed the lie that the Jews killed Jesus. More to the point, Judas Iskariot turned him in...but to the Romans, and not to his fellow Israelites:-)

Anti-Semitism therefore remains merely the result of a mass misconception, not based on historical fact, pure and simple.

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania etc. any or all of either collaborators or Axis powers:-)

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

The only double standard in the present discussion involves those who claim that Poland bear less culpability than the rest because she was occupied by the Nazis. In fact, without Polish complicity, to a large degree, the efforts of those responsible for the Holocause would have been immeasurable slowed down, if not halted.

As I've stated numerous times, hatred is a cancer, a virus which needs feeding. The Catholic Church had fed Jew-hatred for centuries, fueling the lie that the JEWS, and not the Romans, actually crucified Jesus!!

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

Surely, savior nations such as Israel, along with those whose history was responsible for Auschwitz, that is, for the Holocaust such as Germany, to a lesser extent Poland. The US too should help out, as well as France, Russia and various allied countries during the War.

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

I call them fellow Polish citizens who may have Communist leanings, that's all:-) Not every issue is black or white, Ironside! That rigidity of thinking will slow you up every time, prevent you from seeing the facts clearly..

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

Spot on as usual, matey!

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

Accusing those with whom you disagree as "Communists" is merely the same old playbook which accused the Jews en masse of fostering Communism!
The same sort of thinking was used by various German historians, as I'm sure you know (if not by name) to semi-justify the Holocaust as a reaction to the Jewish presence within the Reich as abetting agents of Moscow:-)

Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

Translation:

A. [To an outsized tall person] How's the weather up there?

B. [Spitting on person A] It's raining!!

back on topic please

Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

No doubt.

Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

"She would spit dead in the eye of the German invaders."
:-))

Sure she would have.

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

You think YOU don't know everything, yet you're calling me "biased" merely because I'm asking questions??!
Man, that's a hot one. It's so funny, I could pukeLOL

Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

Just kiddin' man. Even I knew that:-)

Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

"Svetoid"?? The male form of "Sveta"??
LOL

Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

Indeed we are, sir, and more than a trifle:-)

Suffice to say then, that Silesians are either "Slavicized" Germans or "Germanized" Poles. One or the other!

Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

Seconded perhaps only by the Swedes:-)

Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

Quite so, DirkDiggler! When does a group become necessarily "Slavic" vs. "Germanic" vs. "Latin" etc.? The amount of admixture is so relative.
When for example does a dialect become its own independent language?? As soon as the dialect acquires an army and a navy:-)

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

This Museum, I understand from Polish (gentile and Jewish) acquaintances, is a balanced history of the Jews in Poland, up through and beyond the Holocaust.

There's no "cabal of Soviet Jews" except in your mind, Ironside:-) Typically biased prattle!

Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

And I will say again, less nicely and less calmly, that nobody here at least has denied that the Silesians doutbless had some Slavic background owing to the intermingling of neighboring peoples and cultures.

Germanic and Slavic peoples though, remained SEPARATE tribes, united by common territory, period!!

Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

@Tacitus, Crow is the roving troll/provocateur extraordinaire at PF. Pay no attention to most of what he posts:-)

Apropos your remarks concerning the presence of Roman settlers in the German Empire, it's also a well-known fact that the Germanic Vandals among others were responsible for plundering Rome upon their invasion of Italy. A thousand or so years later, one Adolf Hitler proudly staked claim to his now famous boast that the German Volk are "barbarians who are proud to be barbarians".

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

Auschwitz remains the singular manifestation of the entire Holocaust, not only of the Shoah. Although the town of Oswiecim sadly bears the name of this site, according to a recent Polish documentary I saw, the inhabitants of Oswiecim are rightfully ashamed of the stain brought to their town by association with the infamous camp.

Life / Are foreigners welcome in Poland? [305]

So long as one sincerely tries to learn the language of their host country to very best of their abilities, the foreigness will at superficially fade momentarily into the background. Stand out like a sore thumb, well, that's the risk one takes moving to a relatively homogenous and conservative society:-)

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

Multi-cultural as the Austro-Hungarian was, you're also well aware, that mix didn't include the racial diversity of a true melting pot such as the US.

Jews rubbing shoulders with Huzulen, assorted Slavs, Germans, Poles, and Ruthenians is not equal to W.A.S.P. Americans being forced to interact with Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, and Native Americans, I don't care what anyone says:-)

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

Austrians are merely looking out for their country's own interests, that's all! She's not a melting pot society like the US, even the UK to an extent, therefore is disturbed by the onslaught of non-German-speaking refugees in their midst, many of whom refuse or cannot assimilate.

Language / Polish Language Exchange Thread [144]

Hello,

Just sent you a private message, balaclava890!
Marek aka "Lyzka"

UK, Ireland / Why Poles will never belong in England [283]

Nice riposte.