1,800 Germans dug up from 1945 mass grave in Poland

Chicago Sun Times ^ | AFP

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WARSAW - The remains of 1,800 German civilians who perished in 1945, towards the end of the World War II, have been exhumed from a mass grave in Malbork, northern Poland, officials said Wednesday.

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As the Red Army was approaching, Malbork residents, mostly ethnic Germans, were ordered to evacuate deeper into the Third Reich. The fate of 1,800 of the 3,800 people known to have stayed behind has long remained a mystery.

I presume ethnic Germans means they are Polish

[laweeks]

Reminds me of the Katyn Massacre that the lackies from the West blamed on Hitler for decades . . . Old Uncle Joe was a bigger monster than Hitler (multiply Hitler’s slaughters by 10), but Joe gets better press because he was a stinking communist . . . and we all know that communism is the best system . . . if only we let it have another chance . . .

[Tijeras_Slim]

Eastern Europe from 1930 to 1945 was the valley of the shadow of death.

Satan’s playground. No one was safe.

[driftdiver]

Stalin was just misunderstood don’t you know.

[ak267]

Germans masacred??? Boo hoo...ya breaking my heart (sarc)

[laweeks]

I wonder, Freepers, have they ever done a movie about the Katyn Massacre? I understand the Tom Cruise movie “Valkyrie” give a false slant to the hero in that he “was against the slaughter of the Jews” whereas, in reality, that was NOT why he tried to kill Hitler . . . he was right along with the rest of the Nazis, but wanted Hitler out of the way so they could sue for a “friendly” term peace.

Amazing how ONLY HITLER is portrayed as a monster and Uncle Joe as just a nutty old codger.

[randomhero97]

Should of listened to General George S Patton and pushed the bolshevik sons-of-bitches out of Eastern Europe.

[driftdiver]

I’ve read that they wanted to get Hitler out of the way because they knew they would lose with him in charge.

I agree though that saving jews was not his agenda.

[laweeks]

“Should of listened to General George S Patton and pushed the bolshevik sons-of-bitches out of Eastern Europe.”

Yep! And MacArthur wanted to push the commie bums off the planet from Eastern China until Truman stopped him. If we would’ve crushed the communists from both sides, as both generals wanted to, probably 150 million or more lives would have been saved.

[hecht]

without the a-bomb, they would have knocked us off the continent.

[GSP.FAN]

We promised the Europeans freedom. It would be worse than dishonorable not to see they have it. This might mean war with the Russians, but what of it? They have no Air Force anymore, their gasoline and ammunition supplies are low. I’ve seen their miserable supply trains; mostly wagons draw by beaten up old horses or oxen. I’ll say this; the Third Army alone with very little help and with damned few casualties, could lick what is left of the Russians in six weeks. You mark my words. Don’t ever forget them. Someday we will have to fight them and it will take six years and cost us six million lives. http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/08/gen-george-patton-georgia-fighting-and-pattons-russian-predictions/

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http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/08/gen-george-patton-georgia-fighting-and-pattons-russian-predictions/

[PAR35]

Interesting post. We don’t see many Stalinists on FR.

[Revolting cat!]

Yes,Polish director Andrzej Wajda (Ashes and Diamonds, Kanal, The Man of Iron, many others), made a film about Katyn, quite recently, as a matter of fact. It might have been submitted as a foreign film Oscar candidate this year. (Will the Stalin apologists in Hollywood vote for it?) It should make it to the U.S. screens this year. A friend in Europe sent me an e-mail last week saying it was good, if lacking some historical truths he thought should have been included (and he's not Polish.)

[randomhero97]

I don’t know about that. A rejuvinated and resupplied German army under American command would of crushed them IMO.

[Mogwai]

And of course Rosie Velt had a great personal fondness for Stalin and suppressed media criticism of the Soviets. Not that there wasn’t plenty of native Sovietophilia among media, e.g. Walter Duranty.

[Travis McGee]

George didn’t mince words!

[yarddog]

I once read a book by Erich Hartmann the all time ace of aces. He mentioned one air battle near the end of the war in which Russian fighters attacked American P-51s.

During the ensuing furball, he noted a large number of Russian planes going down. As good as the Russians were, the Americans were better. I have no doubt we could have whipped them. Also we were providing nearly all their mechanized support, trucks jeeps etc.

[Pharmboy]

I presume ethnic Germans means they are Polish

No, they were ethnic German. One of the "reasons" Hitler gave for invading the Sudetenland was the high concentration of ethnic Germans living there, the "Sudetendeutsche" (Sudeten Germans).

In border areas there was a lot of mixed ethnicity in the towns (e.g., Roumanian/German, Polish/German, etc.)..

For more on this, click here.

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Straight to the point no bu**s**t