Things you might not know about Poland

not a lake but a german city.. i can find the info if i must but right now i can't.

Hitler's last order about Warsaw (issued after the end of the '44 Uprising) was to liquidate the city and to create a lake in its place.

where are you getting this from? i'm not saying it isn't the case.. all i was aware of was the city they planned.. the plans were made prior to '39. wasn't warsaw flat by '44?

Good point!

When Hitler heard of the Uprising he ordered that it be crushed, all Varsovians executed and the city entirely destroyed (that's why more damage was done to the city after the Uprising than before it and during it). Just have a look at Wikipedia and then follow the sources quoted there.

i don't really trust it but i shall look in on this. thanks

Here's one:

Menachem Begin was born in Poland.

i learned this from my students- all Poles are organ donors. If they don't want to be, they must sign forms in order for them not to be.

Kazimierz Funk first introduced the concept of vitamins in medical science.

If you had a choice to be exterminated or sign this Deutsche Volksliste, what would you do Harry?

Amazing... I just began reading this thread expecting to find some new facts I didn't know. Instead as soon as somebody began raising the question whether Copernicus was a Pole or not, a very delicate point was touched and people became enraged in fighting each other with arguments and getting the whole WWII into the thread...

Unfortunately this is only in theory - doctors are generally afraid to take organs from anyone without the family's express permission, and this means that most Poles are not organ donors, even if they would like to be.

Poles as in Polish citizens or as in ethnic Poles? The Volksliste was not exactly open for just anyone to sign.

BTW, my grandfather, who in World War II was a Polish officer but ethnically half-German, was offered release from prisoner-of-war camp for signing the Volksliste, but refused and remained a prisoner until the end of the war. Of course in retrospect he would have probably died at Stalingrad if he had signed, but that's another story.

I thought it was Szarik!!! From Czterej Pancerni i Pies!!!

awww, Czterej Pancerni i Pies...this was sooo good at that time!

Only if it's a german shepherd. Bureks are mostly mutts.

1- you will not find ATMs in every shop like you do in North America

2- in conversation "no" means "yes" sometimes.

3- you will not find marshmallows or chocolate chips

That is when you speak with a lady.
Here are the rules for ladies with class:

no means maybe
maybe means yes
yes means the lady has no class ;)

ummm just to be clear.... are we to laugh at that??

So what does it mean when I hear a guy answer the phone with "no"? or when I ask my gf if she wants a drink and she says "no" then i come from the kitchen without one for her and she gets angry?

lol...

would that be the strangley nasal 'nah'...?

parmesan cheese is very hard to find. I have only found it in small little bags. Not the big shakers like the Kraft ones.

Funny you should mention that. We've suffered the same indignancy however I located some in a local supermarket in original knobbly wedge form. But it was bloody expensive.