Germans and Poles – Fiction or Myth?

Nobody asked the Silesian Germans if they wanted to leave. They either expelled them or raped/killed them. This is actually not a very nice part of Polish history, I wonder if the Poles consider their behaviour towards the Silesian Germans in the post-war years still as being justified or do they look back at this episode in shame?

LukaszThreads: 73 Posts: 2,396 Joined: Sep 1, 07	Mar 22, 08, 11:39 / #
Bratwurst Boy wrote: Na ja...it's not as if you Lukasz represent a majority of Poles....not even here on the board! : Oh yes, I think I don't represent majority of Poles because I have more informations than majority of Poles ... ;) I think majority of Poles here are form USA and don't know everything ...

tornado2007Threads: 20 Posts: 3,497 Joined: Jul 11, 07	Mar 22, 08, 11:44 / #
Lukasz wrote: Lukasz so enlighten us then ow oricle :)

LukaszThreads: 73 Posts: 2,396 Joined: Sep 1, 07	Edited by: Lukasz Mar 22, 08, 17:02 / #
tornado2007 wrote: so enlighten us then ow oricle :) in your case I think it is imposible :)

tornado2007Threads: 20 Posts: 3,497 Joined: Jul 11, 07	Mar 22, 08, 18:04 / #
Lukasz wrote: in your case I think it is imposible :) probably because you find people who disagree with your point of view difficult, especially as your are so biased through your Polishness :)

shopgirlThreads: 7 Posts: 1,446 Joined: Apr 6, 07	Mar 22, 08, 18:17 / #
tornado2007 wrote: especially as your are so biased through your Polishness :) Don't blame all Polish people because of him.....not all Polish people think like that, I promise! :)

Jozef PilsudskiThreads: - Posts: 30 Joined: Mar 15, 08	Mar 25, 08, 01:12 / #
Nobody asked the Silesian Germans if they wanted to leave. They either expelled them or raped/killed them. This is actually not a very nice part of Polish history, I wonder if the Poles consider their behaviour towards the Silesian Germans in the post-war years still as being justified or do they look back at this episode in shame? I don't believe there is much to be ashamed about. Most every nation in history has performed some form of ethnic cleansing. Berlin thought nothing of cleansing traditional Czech and Polish lands and replacing the people with ethnic Germans. What Poland did is also no worse than what the Russians did, stealing Konigsberg from the Germans in East Prussia and transforming it into Kaliningrad. The difference between the two actions is that the Russians stole a historic German region. Poles reclaimed a region (Silesia) they had a historic right to.

AlisterThreads: - Posts: 5 Joined: Apr 12, 08	Apr 12, 08, 21:40 / #
My 3 pens (Moje 3 grosze) :P 1. Past: - Germans started the war - West allies surendered Poland to Comunist Regime - Comunist Regime made "reconstuction of central Europe" taking Polish eastern teritories for USSR and giving eastern German teritories to Poland Conlusion: Not our fault, sorry. 2. Present: - I live in Poland - I have German friends - I have German boss - I'm not afraid of few maniacks that want to revert history (Steinbach, Kaczynski) - We are allies, friends and co-members of EU and NATO Conclusion: The borders in europe are fixed. Remember and learn from the past, but look for the future. We are now one Europe, there are greater things to think about than painfull past.

DomPolskiThreads: 8 Posts: 35 Joined: Sep 13, 07	Sep 26, 08, 22:51 / #
Most Poles I know have a general hate for the Germans.