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Polish-German alliance. [489]
This thread is sickening. Poland and Germany are antithetical nations. The main reason we are christian is so Germany wouldn't colonize our "heathen" pagan lands. We took baptism as a way to resist your attempts to civilize us.
Why don't you German "friends" start your own forum instead of colonizing this one? Or is that just what you do best?
Were is the Nazi anti-polish propaganda?
If we ignore 1000 years of incursions, invasions, and wars which always necessitate such propaganda... we can start with anti-Polish rhetoric in 18th c. Prussia. The German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, and journalist, Georg Forster, dismissed the idea that the Poles were a part of European culture, comparing them to primitive tribes and portraying Poland as an underdeveloped, uncivilized land awaiting the importation of Kultur from "truly civilized countries". Frederick the Great called us the the "Iroquois of Europe" and "a barbarous people sunk in ignorance and stupidity". Many German academics in the 18th – 20th century, wrote about the difference between Germany and Poland as a boundary between civilization and barbarism; high German Kultur, and "primitive Slavdom".
Many racist texts about Poland were published between the 18th and 20th century, and these were republished by Nazi Germany.
Don't forget also that during those wonderful years of the partition of Poland, Poles were subjected to routine discrimination. Otto von Bismarck described Poles as animals (wolves), that "one shoots if one can" and implemented several harsh laws aiming at their expulsion from traditionally Polish lands. The Polish language was banned from public, and ethnically Polish children tortured at schools, just for speaking Polish. Poles were also subjected to a wave of forceful evictions (Rugi Pruskie).
No anti-Polish propaganda? Please, you guys invented antipolonism.
