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

Bottom line is that the Nazis planned on exterminating 11,000.000 European Jews!!!
Now these are simply FACTS, folks. If you don't believe me, then you have but to look at the
minutes of the Wannsee Conference in '44, just one year before the German capitulation. The
documents are readily available.

Had the Allies not won, it's more than probable that this is the number which would have been
murdered. As it happens, Hitler & cohorts got rid of a mere 6,000,000.

So much for quibbling over stats.

Incidentally, did anyone happen to catch the newspaper item about what to do with the Goebbels
Villa on the Bogensee in Berlin?

Food / Polish cakes made in Poland [115]

Nice to know. Similar then to saying "Gesundheit!", I guess.

Food / Polish cakes made in Poland [115]

Sure, when toasting, not when sneezing LOL

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

Well it was sure a start, Rich!

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

It all goes back to the days of Governor Pontius Pilate, when the Jews
represented a threat to Roman hegemony in the region.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

The so-called "Economic Miracle" started of course at around the beginning of the Adenauer Era, that is, during the early '50's, concluding
in or around the start of1960, '61 somewhere around then. The Old Man as he was known was famous for his slogan "Keine Experimente!" or "No experiments!", as he
proverbially was wont to pack his government with numerous Ex-Nazis, among them, Dr. Hans Globke, the lawyer who drafted the infamous
Nueremberg Laws, along with Dr. Theodor Oberlaender and a host of others.

Perfect he wasn't. However, his steadfastness in the face of both internal as well as criticism abroad was what was needed during those nearly
insurmountable "rubble years" (Truemmerjahre) following the end of the war.

Food / Polish cakes made in Poland [115]

Neither was I until I heard the wish in context and understood
what the gentleman was saying.

We spoke exclusively in Polish throughout the proceedings.

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

@call1n,

I sense revisionism in your statement! Either you never saw "The Eternal Jew" in its entirety, you're in denial
as to its content or you slept through the ending:-)

Yes, Hitler had a "Madagascar Plan", sure enough. However, there's no going back on the unspeakable
facts of the film, unless of course you're not familiar with the Wannsee Conference, which is possible too.

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

@call 1n.

'Scuse me, but when a voice over narrator calmly states in the last several minutes of the film that,
and I'm paraphrasing slightly, "...As vermin must be exterminated from within our midst, so too the Jews
must be.......", one has pause as to both those who made along with those who watched such a film.

Indeed I had the misfortune of watching the Hippler film for a history seminar I was taking many years
ago as a graduate student at Columbia.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

Starmer's between a rock and a hard place.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

Exactly, Milo!
Wonder how PM Starmer's dealing with the racist incidents
of late throughout England.

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

@call1n,

I shudder to imagine that anybody in their right mind could even consider
entertaining as much as a single noxious molecule of what may well be
the most hateful film on record!

The horrible kicker is that filmmaker "Dr." Fritz Hippler who directed it
was NEVER de-Nazified nor did he appear to show the slightest remorse
for his crimes. Although not physically involved in the killing of Jews or
Roma, no doubt THE ETERNAL JEW or DER EWIGE JUDE spurned
a host of Einsatzgruppen members to their venal acts.

Some time after the War, he became a travel agent in Berchtesgaden and
was even interviewed by "60 Minutes" during the '80's not long before his death.

How can one not turn away from the screen in utter revulsion by the conclusion of
the film.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

Fair enough, I definitely agree with the last half of your post one hundred percent!

Food / Polish cakes made in Poland [115]

When I was a guest at a cocktail party at the Polish Consulate General in New York
many years ago, I sneezed and the host said, "STO LAT!"

Guess the phrase has various applications.

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

Amen!

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

That's always been my main contention here on PF!!

Roziewicz, Tuwim, along with any number of other assimilated, native-born Poles of Jewish (religious) heritage
always considered themselves Poles first and foremost.

Food / Polish cakes made in Poland [115]

Thanks!

Food / Polish cakes made in Poland [115]

Who sings to the kids "Urodzin czas, urodzin czas!"?
You or the missus?

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

Why, Maf! I didn't know you were an anti-New Deal, anti-Constitutionalist Trumpist.
Should have known:-)

Up on the sort of stuff nasty Vance and his supporters are proposing?
Certain sacrosanct verities, bedrock American values such as the birth
right to be different, to vote one's conscience as well as to marry at one's
discretion are now being challenged by a bunch of post-Roosevelt Era no-nothings.
a pack once led by the likes of Scott Walker, Rick de Santis and a number of others.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

Well, Milo & AntV, it seems we've arrived on common ground, at least for a while:-)
Still pleased as punch that Kamala decided to choose Walz as her running mate.
Shapiro was the wrong demographic and background. We need a counter force to trounce
Trump; a WASP vet from the corn belt, with a blunt style for mass appeal and the demographic
to appeal easily to a broad swath of voters!!

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

@AntV,
If you bothered to read my post, you'll note that I merely observed that Swedes have
never been particularly associated with the sort of mass demonstrations which are common
in Germany, Russia, France or the US, among other places.

Throughout much of their history, starting at around the beginnings of the Vasa Age, in around
the 17th century on up through the mid-19th century, Sweden had been a fairly wealthy country,
all of which changed during the approx. the mid-1850's or thereabouts, when Sweden found herself
a fairly poor country. The mines of Falun, for example, were written about in literature in order to
make aware the grinding poverty in that country. The mass exodus to American during the 19th century
was yet another indicator that Sweden's latent industrialization made her more a backwater for a time
rather than a boom nation.

All this of course changed forever following the end of World War II, when Sweden experienced an economic
miracle of her own.

My point is simply that Sweden became a largely self-satisfied, smug nation of the overwhelmingly comfortable,
middle class and with bloody little to complain about....until quite recently, that is.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

The culprit once again is none other than unbridled, crony capitalism (as opposed to New Deal capitalism) rearing its ugly head!
Cheap labor means low-wage migrants, invariably from Third World countries, who are brought nowadays by air lift mostly to wealthy
industrialized nations such as England, Sweden, Germany or The Netherlands, with the promise of work.

All this is directly linked to the plummeting birth rate. However therein lies the catch 22; to have children, one needs a steady stream of
money and not everyone out there is Warren Buffet. How then are white people supposed to achieve said dream if employers prefer to
hire those of color, based on profit saving rather than on competence or skill?

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

While it's true that historically one doesn't automatically associate the Swedes with
civil unrest or violent protest, the world has heated up some over the last years,
both socially as well as meteorologically.

Food / Polish Dinner for Boyfriend - what to cook? [34]

Chlodnik (or zurek)

Bigos

Kielbasa (w/czerwona kapusta in aromatic koperek)

Pyzy

Pretty much standard fare both in Greenpoint or in Szczecin!
Obviously, there are regional specialties as well, but I'm sure
I'm not as familiar with those as some of you guys.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

@Maf, German voters for the Green Coalition don't typically talk
about screwed up immigration policies for the same reason the
Left here in the States usually choose to avoid talking about
the same, for fear of bringing up the ugly spectre of race!

Race has deafened, dumbed down, and blinded US voters
so that they can no longer see or think straight.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

Nonetheless, Germany is still veering left and appears to have abandoned the
nasty rhetoric of Hoecke along with other AfD colleagues.

Her economy mirrors that of the US since the Intel layoff, not to mention
markets world wide, e.g. the Hansiang Index, including of course the DAX.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

Not sure I catch your drift here, B.B. Scholz certainly IS a good example to everybody
throughout the continent of Europe, naturally so long as he stays the course!

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

Not to mention, the single most powerful, hence still most important,
economy on the Continent!

As the FRG goes, so goes Europe, which is why it is imperative that
Germany continue bearing left, as an example to neighboring Britain
and France.

With all that support from our Allies, Harris can't lose:-)

History / Use of the word "lord" in Polish. [11]

Of course, Atch, I meant though that if a learner were to translate such word for word
into English, it would sound strange.

Law / What age can a parent kick out their child in Poland? [9]

If said 18-year old has no prospects for either lodging, shelter, above all employment or food,
I can't imagine a parent above all actually having the unmitigated heartlessness to throw out
their own child, particularly if an only child.

Perhaps it's "legal", but that certainly doesn't make it right, much less just aka fair!
Should said relative or parent for instance, be willing to suffer the repercussions of
such action, then come what may. They make their bed, then they must lie in it.