Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

Personally I think Poles are very polite for not killing those bastards who walk straight to the front of the queue in the post office and say "Oh, just a quick question" and proceed to get served. That the assistants who stop serving you to serve them are also still alive is a sign of great politeness.

History / Famous Russian Poles [243]

Ooops, put it on other thread but it might have been better here. The artist Witkacy was a "Russian" citizen. He fought in the Russian army in WW1.


There's also the point that a number of the people moved into the "reclaimed territories" didn't know how to farm that particular type of land. People from mountain regions in south etc didn't always have knowledge of how to farmia in Warmia (for example).

Couple that with a totally disasterous non-commital agro-policy for a few decades.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]


Errm, wasn't Fanta actually a branch of Coca-Cola?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta

I believe it kept trading under that name throughout nthe war and post-war the manager handed all the profits to CC.

snopes.com/cokelore/fanta.asp

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]

I think what this shows is that we need not consider the blueys, spies etc as either Jews or Poles but as (often unscrupulous) individuals who took advantage of th situation for their own gain... and there are plenty of those everywhere.

History / The restoration of Polish cities from WW2 destruction [123]

Apparently the great door lock in the castle was able to be restored in detail because the great lock at Blenheim Palace in England is a copy of it. Researchers were able to go an study it.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]

I think the 1938 reference of the OP might be a confusion with German camps which were active before the outbreak of war which are now in Polish territories (wasn't there one near Gdansk?).

Auschwitz was originally a Polish army barracks and was used to house Polish prisoners until the destruction of the ghettoes. Jews weren't interred there for a couple of years (waiting until they'd killed enough Poles, I suppose).

An interesting ghetto to consider would be £odz. The Jewish leader there (Rumkowski?) controlled a lot of what went on and pulled a lot of deals with the Nazis. Although the ghetto had better provisions and facilities than many others he also gave the speech to his people about "give me your children" to send to the camps. Check wikipedia, it has some interesting stuff.

Regarding Ukranians, there were concentration (holding) camps during Akcja Wisła in 1947 during the time they were being transported across Poland but not the same thing as a nazi one. Likewise there were camps for holding German civilians after the war before they were shipped to Germany.