Controversial Chapters: Polish-German history texbook

...One point on which conflict has repeatedly flared up involves the insistence of the Polish representatives that the word "expulsion" not be used to describe the forced flight of millions of Germans as World War II ended and after national borders had been redrawn. Instead, they prefer to call it "resettlement."...

Germans and France are able to now, with Germany and Poland it will take awhile longer.

Fighting about words!
A sure sign that such a book is to early....it will need some more decades of reconciliation to write such a joint history, agreed on both sides.

Students graduating from German schools are illiterate when it comes to Eastern Europe

Aye but Paris is still standing no? The rift is too deep, it'll take at least two centuries to heal completely.

Too early, Germans still feel Poles are inferior and Poles still find Germans a bunch of Nazis, it'll take another 50 years for such a book to come out.

I once met a German teenager interested in WWII who mistook Warsaw Uprising with the defence of Polish post office in Gdańsk.

Gerhard Schröder came to Poland in the 90ties and he confused Warsaw uprising and the uprising in Warsaw ghetto in some official apologizing speech.

The history of German-Polish relations is full of suffering and mutual recriminations. Experts from both countries have been developing a history textbook meant to teach high-school students on both sides of the border a common narrative. But critics view the effort as destined to fail.