http://www.newsweek.pl/wydania/artykul.asp?Artykul=18399&Wydanie=585
I have only source in Polish ... Neewsweek PL edition ... (Merkel Polsh roots)
as to German nationalists:
"Leader of NPD pointed it in this way, sooner or later we are going to take Poland, in 20 years time, in 50 years time in 100 years time, we need to be patient and act step by step, try to expelle Poles ... or buy land there ...
In some places in eastern Germany they have 30% support ...
and they want to use old methods.
lets show it on Poznan example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KulturkampfIn 1886, in line with Eduard von Hartmann's slogan of eradication of Slavs on the German soil,[citation needed] the authorities of Prussian part of Poland prepared a new policy of Germanisation of the land. According to Heinrich Tiedemann, the author of the plan, the reason why all earlier attempts at bringing more German settlers to the Poznań area failed was that they allegedly felt uncertain and alien there. The proposed solution was to assure them of correctness of elimination of Poles from public life and land property, as well as to promote land acquisition by administrative means. The state-controlled Colonization Commission was to buy off land and estates from the local Poles and sell it, at a much lower price, to Germans. Although it managed to attract circa 22,000 families to the area,[18] the overall percentage of Polish inhabitants of the land was not changed. Similarly, the activities of the Eastern Marches Society met with little success. Instead, the German actions following the start of the Kulturkampf resulted in strengthening the Polish national awareness and creation of several nationalist organization similar to the ones created against Polish culture and economy. By 1904, when the new law on settlement which effectively forbade Polish peasants from construction of new houses, the sense of national identity was strong enough to cause a period of civil unrest in the country. Among the notable symbols of the era were the children's strike of Września and the struggle of Michał Drzymała who effectively evaded the new law by living in a circus van rather than a newly-built house.
All in all, the policies of Germanisation of the Poznań area mostly failed. Although most of the administrative measures aimed against the Poles remained in force until 1918, between 1912 and 1914 only four Polish-owned estates were expropriated, while at the same time Polish social organizations successfully competed with German trade organizations and even started to buy land from the Germans. The long-lasting effect of the Polish-German conflict in the area was development of a sense of Greater Polish identity, distinct from the identity common in other parts of Poland and primarily associated with nationalist ideas rather than socialism, prevailing in other parts of the country in 20th century.
in poorer parts of Poland Germans were more succesful ... and later were expelled by Stalin ...
some Germans still live in past ... I hope it will change.
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