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Posts by Lyzko  

Joined: 12 Jul 2013 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 39 mins ago
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Lyzko   
30 Jul 2017
Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [223]

Curious as to what you consider "not as bad as some claim", Paul. If you're referring to the condition of the site itself, I can't judge because I've never been.

If you're however referring to the total experience of bearing witness to the unspeakable acts committed by those who forgot that G_d, not Man, is the measure of all things, I submit you are either naive to a fault, still a child who cannot comprehend, or, a rather warped individual!

Hope you had a "nice time". Somehow, I just wouldn't have an appetite for viewing human tragedy while on vacationLOL
Lyzko   
30 Jul 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

I'm well aware of all that, kaprys, as I'm certain you must be aware by this time. However, for every "good" Catholic Pole, there were plenty out there willing to turn in their Jewish neighbor.

Again, not all gentiles were angels either! Do you understand what I've been posting, or only what you WANT to understand?
:-)
Lyzko   
29 Jul 2017
History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]

Reminds me of the old anecdote about the American kid who meets a British child of the same age. One day, the American boy goes over to his English counterpart and punches him right in the nose,drawing blood. "What was that for?" asked the little English boy. "That's for almost winning the Revolutionary War!" "But that was over two-hundred years ago." replied the English boy. "Oh, I know.", said the American. 'But I only learned about it today!"

LOL
Lyzko   
29 Jul 2017
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:-)
Lyzko   
29 Jul 2017
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.
Lyzko   
29 Jul 2017
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.
Lyzko   
29 Jul 2017
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!!
Lyzko   
29 Jul 2017
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.
Lyzko   
29 Jul 2017
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..
Lyzko   
29 Jul 2017
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:-)
Lyzko   
29 Jul 2017
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