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It also doesn't help that the two neighboring countries have long had a fraught relationship, mainly due to Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland, but also because of the expulsion of Germans from ethnic-German territories ceded to Poland in 1945.

For those who don't know -- after WWII, Poland was physically pushed West -- it lost it's eastern territories (especially around Lwów) and was pushed to the Oder-Neisse line


1 posted on 04/14/2013 12:58:06 PM PDT by Cronos
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2 posted on 04/14/2013 12:59:50 PM PDT by Cronos (Latin presbuteros->Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
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One of the ways in which the Germans and their useful idiot friends are rewriting the history of WWII is by avoiding the word “German” and replacing it with the word “Nazi”. It was Nazis this, Nazis that (you’ve seen it, here, among many other places), and never who those mythical Nazis were. In fact, not that many Germans, and certainly not all of Wehrmacht and SS were members of the National Socialist party. It wasn’t the party which started the war, and it wasn’t the party, political party, that committed war crimes. Shame that something so obvious has to be stated.


3 posted on 04/14/2013 1:06:39 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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A continuation of the ongoing slanders perpetuated against Poland, applied in conjunction with what appears to be an apologetic or loose attempt at justification for the craven behavior of the German people in, and prior to, World War Two. This is utterly shameful in my view, considering — among many other important facts — that an enormous and vibrant Jewish population was famously welcomed and nurtured in Poland for over a thousand years. Incidentally, the Bielski Partisans were Polish Jews, responsible for almost 400 confirmed enemy kills.

That being said, such a magazine illustration, much less a cover illustration, is inappropriate and provocative. Not that I would recoil from provoking those historically abusive nation-states to the West, and to the East, of Poland. It just seems like bad form to publish such an illustration.


4 posted on 04/14/2013 1:27:46 PM PDT by Unknowing (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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Polish weekly has put an image of Chancellor Merkel as a concentration camp prisoner on its cover
As opposed to Merkel being accurately depicted as a guard instead?

Angela Dorothea Merkel; born 17 July 1954.

8 posted on 04/14/2013 1:46:48 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Have to stay out of this one. Am 1/4 Polish and 1/4 Austrian.


9 posted on 04/14/2013 2:28:19 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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I would think Poland has alike bigger beef with Russia than Germany...

I find it amazing that after 80 years feelings still run so hot...

Merkel as a concentration camp prisoner is pretty over the edge..

10 posted on 04/14/2013 3:02:23 PM PDT by Popman (Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)
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