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Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]
@Ironside
I obviously have more clues about it than you.
I can post the legal base for what i said:
Rule 103 of the UN Charta sees "collective punishment" as massive human rights violation.
The inhabitants of Silesia for example lost evrything. They can demand compensations for their losses.
Who are you to denie them any compensations? Are they not human beings for you? What has a silesian german grandmother done to you that you think you can take evrything from her?
And thats exactly the point. This war brought countless suffering to all sides. It was the samll people who suffered. Be it German, Greek, Polish, French or Italian. All people are equal.
So to underline your claims, there are 2 points you have to answer.
1. Under what legal justification do you think you can denie reparations for German victims?
2. Will you also make claims towards Russia? Putin openly said he is willing to renegotiate all this and laughed in an interview. That alone should open your eyes.
That said, you know full well Poland will make no claims because Germany can just ignore it.
Poland is isolated in the EU and used this topic to get a better position. It knows full well it can achieve nothing. Germany ignored it.
In Greece we have such idiots as well. The communists wanted compensations from Germany because WW II. And guess what? They dropped it, because it turned out according to law Greece even would have to pay Germany.
Beside that we live in 2018 and not in 1946. We have to live together now. We have to stand together now.
And thats the most important aspect. In Germany the far right AfD is already at 16% within 2 years. If you want AfD at 50 or 60%, then you would follow that path. And then the result could very be a contract between AfD chancellor Alice Weidel with Russias President Putin to solve "the polish question".