[CondoleezzaProtege]

Such a great honor. This is a nation more than one thousand years old. Your borders were erased for more than a century and only restored just one century ago.

In 1920, in the Miracle of Vistula, Poland stopped the Soviet army bent on European conquest. Then, 19 years later in 1939, you were invaded yet again, this time by Nazi Germany from the west and the Soviet Union from the east. That’s trouble. That’s tough.

The Polish martyr, Bishop Michael Kozal, said it well: “More horrifying than a defeat of arms is a collapse of the human spirit.”

Through four decades of communist rule, Poland and the other captive nations of Europe endured a brutal campaign to demolish freedom, your faith, your laws, your history, your identity — indeed the very essence of your culture and your humanity. Yet, through it all, you never lost that spirit. Your oppressors tried to break you, but Poland could not be broken.

- from President Trump's 'Western Civilization' speech in Warsaw last summer

[Slyfox]

Hitler had Poland in his plans, not just to eradicate the Jewish population but he wanted the entire country cleared of all Poles. The country was divided into sectors and each sector would be cleared. Children would be Germanized and sent to be adopted by German couples if they passed the test. All others were sent to concentration/death camps. As each sector was cleared Germans were to move there. By the end of the war an number of sections in the south west Poland had been nearly cleared. And these people were not all Jewish.

And do you know where he got this idea? From US President Andrew Jackson's work in removing Indians from one part of America and forcing them into reservations.

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

[xp38]

Famous photo of Ribbentrop Stalin and Molotov signing the Nazi Soviet non aggression pact.

[PAR35]

https://owlcation.com/humanities/World-War-2-History-1939-Battle-of-Westerplatte-Polands-Alamo

[JoeFromSidney]

I was all of eight years old then, but I still remember sitting by the radio and listening to the news of the invasion of Poland. I had no idea of what all the consequences would be.

[ballplayer]

That was a great speech by President Trump