Genealogy / Silesian, old Polish heritage? [49]


Do you know what german church? A church where german is spoken or rather a protestant or lutheran church or something?

Genealogy / Silesian, old Polish heritage? [49]

Agreed...

Genealogy / Silesian, old Polish heritage? [49]

....all thanks to the HRE!

Genealogy / Silesian, old Polish heritage? [49]

Ja genau! :)

But for a german tongue its easier and not to forget, its a nod to our shared history because back then as my family lived there it was Breslau.

Genealogy / Silesian, old Polish heritage? [49]

Silesia has a colorful and distinctive heritage....multi ethnical and rich...but I doubt any independence will re-gain what two wars and decades isolated behind the Iron Curtain destroyed.

There is a vision of building something new again, because the East German border region didn't fare much better. But with now nearly open borders, together in the EU, and many Poles settling there already maybe in time....who knows!

(My grand-family stemmed from in and around Breslau)

History / Polish attitudes towards ex-Soviet republics joining NATO [116]

I've read Ukraine demands now NATO membership or they will look for Nukes....

News / Germany eyes Poland's economic miracle [12]

....a federation would be so much better anyhow!

Who wants the EU to become a centralized state?

Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [417]

Polish names are character traits! :)



reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/mfuili/polish_names/

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

I'm not so sure about the extra wives though....the germanic women weren't pushovers like the christian ones!

*ducks and runs*

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]


.....wouldn't that be cool!

The old gods aren't dead, they are merely sleeping! :)

*nods*

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

When Germany is Central then Poland is too....because:



Heh:)


reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/me13y1/ko%C5%82obrzeg/

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

Why should the Vatican work for Germany in the first place, Crowie?

Only the south of Germany is nominally catholic anyhow, the bigger part is protestant (no natural ally of the Vatican) and an even bigger part couldn't care less about religion at all....

Who exactly are they working for? To what goal?

History / Is Poland a Slavic country?! (politics included) [90]

USians really don't do european maps! :)

reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/m8g69g/just_hre_things/

History / Is Poland a Slavic country?! (politics included) [90]


Everyone wants to be Nordic....they just have the better PR....but they are only a few people in reality, most of Europe doesn't look like them at all.

History / Is Poland a Slavic country?! (politics included) [90]


....a european sub group, like the Nordics.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_race

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinaric_race

Even as I would put the Bavarians more into the alpine sub group!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_race

History / Is Poland a Slavic country?! (politics included) [90]

....definitely Polish! :)

(Every second native Berliner has a 'ski in his name anyhow)

History / Is Poland a Slavic country?! (politics included) [90]


Depends where you ask....the Bavarians see themselves surely not as "northern aka prussian", and the Ossis see themselves as "mittel" as possible....and the Wessis would wonder why you don't call them western Europeans like the Frenchies...

And if you mean "northern" as in scandinavian then that is an error generally I fear....the Scandinavians are their totally own category, no German would put himself into it.

History / Is Poland a Slavic country?! (politics included) [90]

We should just merge to Gerpolia, gulp down the little ones down there and we would so kick ass! We would rule every football tournament!!!! :)

History / Is Poland a Slavic country?! (politics included) [90]

Thats what the CIA factbook says about Central Europe:



commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Europe_in_CIA_World_Factbook.png

Regions of Europe:



de.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Datei:Regions_of_Europe_Map.png

Central Europe according to The World Factbook (2009)[1] Encyclopedia Britannica and Brockhaus Enzyklopädie (1998):



familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Central_Europe

Central Europe according to P. Jones (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography). Many Central European countries and regions were parts of the German and the Austro-Hungarian empires; thus they also have historical and cultural connections.

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/CentralEurope2.PNG/325px-CentralEurope2.PNG

History / Is Poland a Slavic country?! (politics included) [90]


.....well...Merkel grew up behind the Iron Curtain too....do you think of her as an eastern European?


...as that even a topic with Hollywood movies????

History / Is Poland a Slavic country?! (politics included) [90]

Who is "the rest of the world"?

Most don't care anyhow, they accept what they are being told....

History / Is Poland a Slavic country?! (politics included) [90]


....that is hardly a criterium and why should it be?

People here in central Europe feel strongly about it, that should be enough....

And where do you start? East Germany had been put behind the Iron Curtain too, but would you put it into eastern Europe because of that?

News / Germany eyes Poland's economic miracle [12]

A nice and interesting read! :)

...Germany and Poland, Wasinski believes are becoming the industrial center of Eastern Europe, capable of developing value chains that are "beneficial for both partners."

I really hope that includes East Germany!

*fist bump* :)

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Well...not only mine! Yours too... But neither I nor you would call themselves Africans. So why should the Jews who live here since 1000 years?

There are not many Jews left who would identify as Germans today btw...but if they do I welcome them. And I would never dare to tell them what they should or have to be!

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

"You lot" ? :)

As far as I know the jewish people group themselves as sephardic and ashkenazim....maybe you confuse these things?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephardi_Jews

...Largely expelled from the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century, they carried a distinctive Jewish diasporic identity with them to North Africa, including modern day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt; South-Eastern and Southern Europe, including France, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Turkey; the Middle East, including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran; as well as the Americas...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews

Whereas the sephardic Jews have a widespread diaspora in North Africa the ashkenazim are as european/german as they come...

...Ashkenazic Jews or, by using the Hebrew plural suffix -im, Ashkenazim[a] are a Jewish diaspora population who coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium.[20]...

They have been living here for over a Millennia...about 1000 years...and you call them Africans???

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

What exactly has been anti-Polish? That german Jews don't saw themselves as Africans?

...I just think you should let the Jews themselves identify as what they want, not deciding for them...that goes for everybody actually!

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Maybe you reword your question again for me? I have no idea what you are going for....

That a german jewish doctor by the name of Heinz König who earned an Iron Cross in WWI should identify as African? Seriously???

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

So how does this work if according to you Jews are Germans and German DNA is African in origin but at the same time you and Jews don't call yourselves African?

What?


Erm....

I don't know where you learned your history....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws

Nazis denied Jews their Germanness (kind of what you are trying to do), so they weren't even allowed to join the forces after 1933.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

I don't hear any native European call themselves African, and still that's where our ancestor DNA came from...partly that is....

The Jews in Germany identified as Germans, they fought in Germany's wars for Germany, they died for it...you can't get any more German than that.

News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]

What will you do with all these Arabs then?