[Pilgrim's Progress]

I admire Poland for the way that they brought themselves out of the tentacles of communism through the efforts of Lech Walesa. Sadly, however, the book ‘The Black Earth’ shows the depth that the European countries supported Hitler’s plan to exterminate the Jews - so they’ll forever have a black mark against them.

[fision]

I admire Poland also. During WWWII thousands of Poles migrated to England to join the British army and fight the Germans and later settled in England. I remember they were honest a good people and very hard workers. In my home town in the Midlands, there were so many of them that Churches had to add services in Polish and they packed them wall to wall with impeccably dressed Polish families on Sundays. Today, more than half the immigrant in England are Poles.

My second choice is Spain because towns like Barcelona are models of free speech - more so than here - and they are such happy people, notwithstanding the political problems that Spain will always have.

[dfwgator]

Ask yourself this question.

Why did so many Jews live in Poland before the war?

Not saying there weren’t some anti-semitic Poles, but there was no “Poland” during the war.

[Matt_DZ_PL]

So, what did you learn from the book?

Did the book mention that Poland was the only country in the world that had neglected Hitler's threats to all those who help the Austrian Jews and open its borders for them in 1938?

So, while countless trains laden with Jews roared Northward to Poland, Hitler got furious and shouted even then unprecedented threats to Poland in the German radio till he got croaked.

Many historians claim it was after then, when Germany fully declared Poland her Enemy No 1, what could even be read from the handmade words painted on their trains while invading Poland in Sept.1939.

Well, so much for common memory. Not much, albeit for a year, although not far from the German nazi demons, they could continue to live...