Doesn't give much background, but apparently some Polish pol doesn't want to give back some property to the heirs of those the Nazis stole it from back in the day.
Since this theft took place 75 years ago, all the actual participants are dead.
I don't know how Kopycinski came into possession of this property, but it would likely be an injustice for it to be taken from him and returned to the heirs of the original owners. It is unlikely he had anything to do personally with the original property, and may in fact have acquired it in perfectly good faith. Quite possibly with no awareness of is history.
The answer, of course, is for the government to compensate either the heirs of the original owners or Mr. Kopycinski. Possibly some or all of this money should come from the descendants of the states responsible for the original theft and murder, the Germans or Russians.
I found the general tone of the article more than a little disturbing.
I mean, listen to this bastard, Kopycinski, he’s actually complaining about giving back property his family and his neighbors have stolen almost 70 years ago.
The author provides no evidence that Kopycinski, his family or his neighbors were personally involved in the theft of this property. Apparently they are to be standins for all Poles, who must suffer now because some other Poles in the past did bad things.
You'd think a Jew would have the common sense to reject this POV, as it was the one used for centuries to target Jews.
If we apply this principle comprehensively, a whole bunch of Americans are going to have to give the land they live on back to the Indians. Possibly all of us.
“You’d think a Jew would have the common sense to reject this POV, as it was the one used for centuries to target Jews.”
What percentage of the American Jewish population voted for Obama?
Heck one I know even rationalized Soros helping the Nazi’s killing other Jews in WWII, as “he did what he had to do”.
I'm sure he made the day of people that owned the property. I wonder how title insurance is/was handled in post-war Europe?
Well, the US is still paying for slavery in only half the states from 150 years ago.
Agree. And there are some innocent ethnic Germans from parts of Eastern Europe who could be making the same claims, but don’t, even though they grew up in camps.
So? My family had land before the Russian Revolution. Some of that was on natural gas fields now. We never thought that we had any claim on it because we didn’t go through the intervening 75 years of Hell.
When Franco won the civil war in Spain in 1939, he declared all property titles issued after July 18, 1936 (the start of the war - and wealth re-distirbution by the Reds) null and void. Easy enough (since much less time had elapsed).
If you buy stolen goods, if it can be proven,
you DON’T get to keep it weather you knew or not.
At least not here.