Naaaaah.
Posted on 11/04/2005 8:52:02 AM PST by lizol
In the next war my money's on the Poles.
Naaaaah.
As soon as Germany resuscitates the millions of Polish citizens it murdered, the Poles should give all the property back.
I'd be willing to make this trade: We get to stuff six million Germans into ovens and they get to whine about it for the next three generations. Deal?
"We were only following orders"?
Nice try.
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It's the agitations of the Volksdeutsche in western Czechoslovakia and Poland which was the pre-text for the whole war. I didn't hear those Germans complaining when the slave labor was coming in from eastern Europe. Payback's a bitch.
My problem is not that there was too much suffering among German citizens during and after the war- it's that there wasn't enough. I wish we'd given the Dresden treatment to a bunch more cities and towns.
This is a nation whose population was quite comfortable with the notion that they had the right to march into whatever country they pleased, murder women and children by the millions, and squeeze whatever labor (and gold teeth) they could out of them before they died. Dresden was too good for such people.
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Ready for German victimhood? Nope. And I'm of German ancestry.
Actual Kaliningrad was Königsberg in what was Prussia and that area is now a noncontiguous part of Russia
The germans occupied parts of Poland after expelling Poles from their homes to expand German territory.
If there are too many Germans without places to live, maybe they should kull the herd with German efficiency.
Another reminder why my ancestors left Europe and never looked back.
They would have been the odds-on favorites in the early 1930s as well.
Tough sale.
I could see it now: Pierogi and Sywiech beer in Berlin, Paczki replacing streudel in the cafes of Frankfurt.
As an aside, I remember Pat Buchanan writing an article on how the Germans were "victimized" due to these "land transfers."
My father became a seabee towards the end of the war...
One of his jobs was to assist in the tearing down and cleaning up of a "relocation camp" the Germans had built in Poland.
The US Armed Forces forced the affluent German citizens who lived in the surrounding community to assist in the removal of bodies.
No one would have ever convinced him that the majority of German people were unaware of what was going on, or were the least bit innocent.
On the other hand, after the war, he accepted Germans (and Japanese, as well) as fellow Americans.
The expulsion of ethnic Germans from the east was an injustice, as was the expulsion of Poles from the lands taken by the Soviets from Poland during World War II. The fact that Germany committed many war crimes does not mean that all Germans are war criminals, or should be treated as such.
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