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Posts by Lyzko  

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Lyzko   
8 Oct 2022
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

My point precisely!
As you and others here are doubtless aware, way back in '52, not long after the War and during the throws of the rebuilding of West Germany at the time of the Economic Miracle, the then West German gov't. rejected Poland's first proposal for restitution under Adenauer.

I see little to any reason why under Scholz the answer would be any different.
Lyzko   
9 Oct 2022
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

I rather agree with that last statement, actually.
However, Poland has been making such claims for nigh unto almost seventy years and I suppose the present German administration is getting just a little tired of it!

The entire question anyway as to what constitutes "lost" property remains open to debate, according to legal scholars.
Lyzko   
9 Oct 2022
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

What you say is typically from the Allies' point of view, Rich!
Germany operated from a different logic during the War, most of which was brought out at the Nuremberg Trials.
Considered "illegal" after '45, against the Geneva Convention etc. was deemed legal, right, and justified from '33-'45 as part of German law under Adolf Hitler. Technically, the Nazis weren't "breaking the law", since theirs WAS the sole existing law while Hitler remained in power.

The Nazis annexed conquered territories right and left. Determining what belonged to whom following the collapse of the Third Reich took years of wrangling.

And as you can plainly see, the fight is not over yet.
Lyzko   
14 Oct 2022
Genealogy / How to Find Birth Records in Poland? [16]

An important question is whether or not this person is a blood relative or only by marriage! If they were adopted, this might complicate matters without a certified family tree.

As already noted, data protection laws might prohibit the release of such information.
Lyzko   
16 Oct 2022
History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [231]

Well, the Trianon fiasco of 1918 was a pretty rough slap in the face, you must admit!

Imagine how you in Poland would feel if you lost almost more of half of your homeland to a neighboring power, much less, who denied it ever happened.
Lyzko   
16 Oct 2022
Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [849]

In total agreement there.
Foreign language depts. in the US used to require stringent standards for their staff, particularly their adjunct faculty.

While full professors needn't all have been native-born speakers, for sheer advertising purposes, anybody other than a tenured professor, that is, an "instructor" typically had to be from and ideally educated in the country of the language they were teaching,

I know of only one instance of a French preceptor at an Ivy who was a native bilingual from right here in the States and he was a notable exception.

However, this was easily thirty or so years ago:-)
Lyzko   
17 Oct 2022
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

@Cojestdocholery,
We learned from the Nueremberg Trials that culpability is not always
an easy matter!

No German at the time wanted to admit their guilt.
It was only after the Auschwitz Trials in '67 or thereabouts and of course the publication of Mitscherlich's "The Inability To Mourn" in '69, that ordinary Germans began to have substantive discussions with their parents about their role in the recent past.

In the documentary "Night and Fog" by Alain Resnais, the film ends with the eternal question: If the kapos, the commandants, the German people were not responsible...WHO then was responsible?

A more uncomfortable question remains whether Poland itself bore even the slightest complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust.

Certainly neither of us can honestly answer this question.
Lyzko   
18 Oct 2022
History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [231]

However, I wonder whether much older folks in Poland still complain about it as do many Hungarians I know, who continue to nourish the dream that one day while they're still alive, they can "reclaim" Transylvania from the Romanians!
Lyzko   
18 Oct 2022
News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

Up until '45, present-day Polish cities such as "Wroclaw", "Szczecin" or "Gdansk" bore German names!
Surely no living German in his or her right mind would dare to petition somehow reclaiming these and aim to rename them in their original nomenclature, would they?

It's too ludicrous even to imagine! Germany lost the war, period.
Lyzko   
20 Oct 2022
Off-Topic / Polish Misunderstanding of American Terminology [47]

Or possibly, pawian, he's calling certain Polish native speakers on their arrogance, believing that they understand more English than they really do:-)
Lyzko   
21 Oct 2022
Off-Topic / Polish Misunderstanding of American Terminology [47]

Or, as a response to someone who purposely makes a snide remark in another's direction, "Was that a shot?" shooting a picture, of course, and so forth.
Lyzko   
23 Oct 2022
History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [231]

I base my observations solely on historical readings!
Perhaps those who represent such statements are in fact the most conservative of Hungarians.
What do you think?