Polonia / Poland, Germany, France, Spain or Greece? [35]

I was only in Prague.

USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]

Good to know, people.

Polonia / Poland, Germany, France, Spain or Greece? [35]

Next to Budapest, Prague aka Praha, is the third most strikingly beautiful city on the Continent, perhaps only behind Paris or Barcelona.
The city square is breathtaking, as was my view of the Charles Bridge from our hotel. That was in the late '90's, and so I'd imagine more ordinary folks know English. When we were there, my Viennese girl friend at the time and I found nobody except for much, much older people, who even admitted to knowing either German or English. Knowing Polish was a partial help, but my Czech was practically non-existentLOL

USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]

On that festive note, crying' shame we don't live anywhere near Greenpoint, Bklyn.! Lodi?? Don't make me laugh! Closest to any "polskosc" 'round these parts would probably be Doylestown, PA and the American Czestochowa Pilgrimage Site. From Fort Lee, that's ooohh, 'bout a two hour drive easy(:-

Haven't been to a Polish bash in at least four years and I'm gettin' mighty itchy. Thanks for the upbeat post, Johnny, especially in these COWID times-:)

Life / Polish patriotic music! [44]

Why 's that?

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

However, if the Germans had won, Warsaw, as with the rest of Europe, would have become Nazi satellites anyway, so the question is academic.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

An uprising, incidentally, quashed by General Juergen Stroop in '44!

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Indiscriminant "carpet bombing" remains incomparable with the most relentless, discriminant murder of Jews along with Roma in the Holocaust The only difference was that the Jews of Germany and Austria, including Hungary, was solely the degree of assimilation among the Jews. Furthermore, mass deportations or depopulation of entire communities are the salient features of actual genocide.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Do I smell a double standard here?

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Or as the Germans like to say: "They hang the little guys and the big fish get off scot free!"

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

I mentioned the Roma in a prior post.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Anywhere near the Poconos?

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Obsessing, Maf?? Justifying it is as bad as ignoring it!

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Only a deranged maniac exterminates a group of humans solely because of who rather than what they are. Jews were reared in a certain manner, some people are as they are, yet who justifies genocide except a miscreant!

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Correct, Ironside. Katyn was political, Auschwitz was ideological/biological-racial.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Among Red Scarers, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."!

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Wartime barbarísm is one issue. The wholesale ethnic incarceration and subsequent slaughter of a single people quite another.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Negotiate??! You're as loopy as Chamberlain. No "deals" with dictators! That's why Lindberg was such a louse.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Perhaps so.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Whatever that means. Was I just insulted? LOL

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

@Milo, let's not fall into the all too familiar trap of labeling merely the Camps as "The Holocaust"!!
The Holocaust essentially began the day Hitler assumed power and deemed himself Fuehrer des Dritten Reiches.
Auschwitz along with all the others were indeed the terrifying outward manifestation of all Hitler's ultimate plans.
However, to compare Katyn, a horrific yet once in a blue moon massacre with the nearly twelve-year long systematic, methodically sadistic, official, state-sponsored
program of mass degradation, removal, and assembly-line like annihilation of a single people (albeit non-Jews such as the Sinti-Roma were part of that
program) is not only insulting to the memory of survivors, it's historically and factually inaccurate.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Dirlwanger was one of the worst! A fella named Lorenz Hackenholt and a certain Willi Menz brought sadism to new lows.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

@Oathbreaker, you just conflated two separate issues within the same post! The "loan Werwolfs" to which I was referring were in post-War Germany, not Poland-:)

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Thank you! Again I say, spot on, mate.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

You mentioned Kielce before, didn't you? Only even-handed then to mention the pogroms against local Jews alongside the uprising against the Nazis.

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

RIch, the Kielce Pogroms, unlike Jedwabne, were committed AFTER the War, which is what makes them so frightening, when you consider that after '45 and Hitler's ignominious defeat, the Nazi killings stopped, a battered, battle-scarred Germany surrendered and that was the end of that, a few bands of lone Werwolfs who roamed the countryside notwithstanding!

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

Most of the US voted for Trump, so amiga500 might indeed have a point!
As far as the thread topic is concerned, the Warsaw Uprising Memorial is dedicated in the end both to the Jewish Poles fighting against Nazi tyranny as well as to their gentile neighbors and fellow citizens fighting for freedom.

Language / Are czegos and coś interchangable? [14]

N.p. "CZYM moge sluzyc?* = (lit.) With what may [I]serve? czyli How can I help you? -:)

Language / Are czegos and coś interchangable? [14]

How then would you/one distinguish both the meaning and the usage of "czego" vs. "czegoS"? The compensatory "s with accent mark" is required here as elsewhere,

but I still don't understand why or how it is used. Please clarify:-)

Life / Polish patriotic music! [44]

Don't forget either "Warszawianka"!