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Bratwurst Boy   
9 Jan 2010
News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

We had a German racist girl in my college. This girl was absolutely nuts. She was preaching about how German people are a beautiful pure race

That sounds so made up it's really funny!

I'm sorry, but American white supremacists are stupid period.

Also, it's not like the German girl said that in front of a class. I didn't say that

Okaaay...seemingly you can't differentiate between german and american white supremacists and then you backpedaled already (because mentioning something in a talk is not the same as "preaching" obviously)...who knows what this mysterious german/american girl really said? Probably only that she is proud of her german heritage...

And if that means "bad white supremacy" to you then you have a problem not her!
Bratwurst Boy   
8 Jan 2010
History / Battle of Grunwald 1410 The biggest medieval battle. Germans smashed. [174]

Ever since the time of the roman armies military equipment and tactics decided over victory or defeat (and probably before that).
The romans (just to use a popular example) didn't conquer the known world because they had the men...they had also the better weapons, the better training for their soldiers, the better logistics etc.

The "barbarians" they conquered were equally brave but hadn't by far the same equipment or the skills...
(Okay...Arminius beat them...but he was trained as a roman soldier and knew all about their tactics)
Bratwurst Boy   
8 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Neugebauer surname in Poland / Nestor, Zurawel, Worobec, Atamanczuk in Galicia Poland [16]

I also know a guy in college who has the last name Neugebauer and he's Jewish.

Probably a mix...married into non-jewish new farmers (some centuries back)! ;)
Not all "-steins" for example are purely jewish nowadays either...

It doesn't mean that Jews farmed.

No it wasn't!
As during the middle ages second names were needed to differentiate between the people, professions, characteristics or origins and locations were used...not randomly assigned.

About the origin of jewish names:
Bratwurst Boy   
8 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Neugebauer surname in Poland / Nestor, Zurawel, Worobec, Atamanczuk in Galicia Poland [16]

Neubauer Standes- oder Berufsname für den neu angesiedelten Bauern

It's not a jewish name....Jews weren't farmers...I don't know any Jew with the name of Neubauer/Neugebauer.

NEUGEBAUER: German or Yiddish (Askhenazy) name for a (largely unwelcome) new settler, newcomer or outsider.

What makes you say "unwelcome"?
The name just states a fact: "neuer Bauer (new farmer) - Neubauer/Neugebauer"

...
Jemand, der als neuer Bürger in eine Gemeinschaft hineinkam, ein Neuling, Neuankömmling, konnte einen Beinamen erhalten, der auf diesen Umstand Bezug nahm. Eine sehr große Zahl von Familiennamen ist so entstanden, die einfachste Namensform ist Neu, mundartlich Ney, Nigge, Naue, auch Neue und Neuer gehören dazu.

noz.de/lokales/osnabrueck/artikel/318085/ein-nee-ist-kein-nein-name-bezeichnet-neuling
Bratwurst Boy   
7 Jan 2010
News / 2009 Quality of Life Index: Poland behind Czech, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia.. [52]

Hmmm....curious....here is another list:

dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1240988/France-tops-list-best-places-live-world-fifth-year-row--Britain-languishes-25th.html

Britain falls to 25th best place to live in the world... behind Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Hungary

Last updated at 1:54 AM on 07th January 2010

Best places to live and Poland
Bratwurst Boy   
7 Jan 2010
News / 2009 Quality of Life Index: Poland behind Czech, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia.. [52]

Definitely. Look at the Infrastructure and Risk & Safety ratings for example. The USA has 100 (the best?) in both categories, which can only be a joke.

I think in the US more people are being murdered each day than in Germany (percentual)...and I wouldn't equal Italy's economy with the german one neither...interesting list!

Woooo-hooooo! We're # 11 !!!!!!!!!

You are french??????
Bratwurst Boy   
6 Jan 2010
History / What British unit liberated Poland in 1945?? [445]

No..I think that is mainstream version:

web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob18.html

Arts. 87/89 "Germany . . . recognises the complete independence of Poland, and renounces in her favor [all former Polish territory in possession of Germany, excepting east Prussia]."

/wiki/Little_Treaty_of_Versailles

The Polish treaty was signed on 28 June 1919, the very same day as the main Treaty of Versailles was signed - hence one of its names.

It was the first of the Minority Treaties, and served as the template for the subsequent ones; together with Articles 87-93 of Treaty of Versailles it also formally established Poland as a sovereign and independent state on the international arena.[1][2][3]

Bratwurst Boy   
5 Jan 2010
History / What British unit liberated Poland in 1945?? [445]

(Note that i say Nazi's and Soviets and not Germans and Russians)

Don't get a knot in your knickers! ;)

It was quite interchangable during those days..
Bratwurst Boy   
5 Jan 2010
History / What British unit liberated Poland in 1945?? [445]

Britain helped Poland regain its country from Germany and Russia after WW1 with the Treaty of Versailles.

Well...some say all later mess started there...but british empire border drawing is still demanding blood even today!
Bratwurst Boy   
5 Jan 2010
History / What British unit liberated Poland in 1945?? [445]

Pretty doubtful really - Hitler relied on speed, and if Poland was causing vast amounts of trouble for him, combined with a sudden attack on the Western border after a few weeks - then it's hard to imagine the German people really supporting yet more slaughter of their own in Poland.

I agree...much of the nimbus of "Hitler the invincible military genius" developed after the successfull campaigns in Poland and France.

Had he struggled or been seriously contested (doesn't matter how) his Generals who doubted his plans and strategies would had had a bigger say...
Bratwurst Boy   
5 Jan 2010
History / What British unit liberated Poland in 1945?? [445]

Germany would have had to commit a massive amount of troops just to secure Poland - and *then* there would have been an opportunity for an attack from the West.

But then...would have Hitler attacked Russia if the Germans couldn't even keep control of Poland?
Imagine a restless Poland still demanding masses of german troops...with uprisings and bloody streetfighting everywhere...hmmm..

The Wehrmacht generals needed a quiet "Hinterland" to prepare for and start Barbarossa...they did only start as Poland and later France were "pacified"....
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / What British unit liberated Poland in 1945?? [445]

The rest of your post is fantasy stuff! :)

Why?

Poland had neither the size, nor the human capital to could have hoped to match Germany or Russia...chosing to play the game like them to their rules could only spell doom.

Poland should have chosen a form of warfare which played to their strengths like bravery, independence, cunning...a form of guerilla warfare would had made things barely worse than trying to cope with the german and russian juggernauts with conventional warfare.

They just were never big enough!

But they could have pestered both enormously...after all for the Germans the most hated enemy in the russian steppes weren't the russian troops but the partisans who blew up all the logistics the army needed.
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

blah blah go to the kitchen woman !

Nathan agrees with nincompoop (and he is our board Ukrainian)! ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

I largely agree but the point about the allegiances of The Germanic minority in The Second Republic brings up issues of how they were treated, enforcing the Polish language on German speakers cant then be used as a legimate grievance using the logic of the quote.

One thing had both in common...the Poles hated to be under prussian/german rule and the Germans hated it under new-polish rule!

Both mistreated and abused the other at first chance and opportunity. That's why so many polish Volksdeutsche prefered the invading Germans..

But one thing - you cant blame a nation. Blame a pack, a group, an invidual, Not a nation.

The creation of nationstates meant mostly hell for the many different ethnics in Europe...most of our conflicts and grudges stem from the experiences made then...
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

He did it so its ok?

I think it was ok for that time and even today immigrant/minority children are forced to learn the primary language.
A multi ethnic state can't work otherwise...
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
Life / Tattoos and Popular culture in Poland [51]

Though I think with something like runes you get them for a meaning right?

It would be a visible connection to my beliefs, to my heritage, to my ancestors...surely not because they look "pretty", as they barely do. ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

Evene if they were Polish?

We are all actually "Germoles" !

Trying to extinguish a language is fairly harsh.

When you mean Bismarck's "Kulturkampf" that was more about breaking the catholic church's neck and to modernize, secularize Prussia (it was a german catholic trying to assassinate Bismarck for that)...not extinguish polish but enforcing german as school language, first language in the multi- ethnic state Prussia was.

(Not that much different as the Poles tried with the Ukrainians as every nationstate needed to have one primary language only)
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

Germans in Silesia were minority.

Erm.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesia#Demographics

"....In 1905, a census showed that 75% of the population was German and 25% Polish.

If you are a German and I am Polish and we speak to a true Sileasian, you'd understand 50%, I'd understand another 50% but Sileasian would understand 100%.

There are barely any "true" Silesians left as most who identified as Germans left (my family for example) and were replaced by displaced Poles from the lost eastern territories (Sokrates' family for example)...
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

If someone willingly gives up their national identity and assumes the national identity of an enemy during the times of

Well..the invading Germans weren't seen as enemies by the Germans who were a harassed minority (who either weren't asked to become Poles or if asked decided in their majority to prefer to stay with Germany) in new-Poland.

Why do Poles omitt that little fact so readily?
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
Life / Tattoos and Popular culture in Poland [51]

Do you have any other tattoos?

Nope...and I'm only playing with the idea...

I guess those tattoos represent Celtic or possibly American-Indian (Native American) tribes? Are you polish?

These are runes...I didn't know the native Americans use them too? (I've heard of some interaction with the Vikings of course)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark
Bratwurst Boy   
4 Jan 2010
History / Polish-German alliance. [489]

No he wasn't.

In the end he was the reason for the defeat of Germany and for the now ruling political correctness and all that multi-kulti ideology.
In the end he destroyed everything...good ideas or not!