Posted on 02/02/2018 1:48:30 PM PST by Lukasz
The U.S. State Department on Wednesday urged Poland to re-evaluate a proposed law that would make it illegal to suggest Poland bore any responsibility for crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany on its soil during World War II, Reuters reports.
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I understand Poland’s sentiments, but how would this law be enforced or penalized if violated?
One of the first things the Polish Resistance did during the Warsaw Uprising was to free the Jews from the Jewish Concentration Camp in downtown Warsaw. The Polish freedom fighters did not view the Jews as Polish Jews but as Jewish Poles, there is a difference.
Calif is a liberal nutty place, but how many would call *Jim Robinson* a liberal nut..?
It’s deeply unfair.
“You live there, SO YOU DID IT.”
No acknowledgement will bring back the dead.
What possible reason would someone have to suggest that Poland was in ANY way complicit?
I’m not aware of any significant Polish collaboration, in contrast to several other countries. Hitler wanted to steal their land, kill most of the Poles and use the rest as slave labor. The Holocaust was only the beginning of the plan and most Poles knew it.
I agree with the long memory point, but I think America should be proud of how much we’ve matured and endured as a nation — wounds, scrapes, stumbles and all. And that something to that extent did not happen here, likely due to the lessons brought here by immigrants from places the likes of Poland.
This is not the point, because this law won’t be respected outside of Poland anyway. How Poland deserved to be treated with such a distrust and lack of respect?
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And historically speaking, Poland is in the right as far as their request goes about how to refer to the camps.
Separate from this particular law though, this was a sad event when Polish Neo-Nazis created quite the scene recently.
Poland Charges Neo-Nazis for Marking 'Hitler's Birthday'
https://www.voanews.com/a/poland-charges-neo-nazis-for-making-hitler-birthday/4220799.html
If you have no idea what something is about, then it is about money.
If they are hiding in the forest, it means that they are not tolerated by the society.
Ok, well European anti-Semitism is a menace still in general esp in places like France. Anti-Zionism seems to unite partiws on both the left and the right.
Macron and a few others doing a good job of addressing it though.
Why is Netanyahu against the law?
Parties* on both the left and right I meant.
Well, remember, that the South (of whom I respect) had POW camps that rivaled German concentration camps - if you don’t believe, me, check out the photos - and we’ve moved on from it. I have great pity for the Poles because I’ve watched their films that were created in the aftermath of WWII and know what the vile Nazis did to them. The Poles, the Jews, and the rest of us need to move on. Looking back doesn’t seem to help at all.
Germany can jail you for giving a Hitler salute - and Germans don’t do it. It is easy to enforce.
Given Polish suffering in WWII, and afterwards because of deals the US made with Stalin, Poland has no reason to heed anything an American government says about that time in history. Americans raised on “The Longest Day” and “Saving Private Ryan” have no idea how we are perceived in Eastern Europe. Certainly nothing heroic; we were the allies of Joseph Stalin that prolonged their socialist nightmare for another 45 years.
They have election campaign in Israel but still this is no excuse to forget about diplomacy. Apparently they don’t need any more allies on the UN forum if they have support of the US.
Yes I understand, but I believe we became a superpower and recover time and time again each time we’re headed for a precipice (like with what happened in 2016 with Trump’s win) because enough of us (namely Christians) manage to come to our senses in time, confront our issues and national sins head-on, and learn from our mistakes.
This even with all the division and chaos the media tries to sow between Americans. The bonds that unite us are quite strong. Precisely because they’re not ethnic or racial in nature.
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