'Homeland' for Germans expelled from modern Poland?

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Post by Jan-Hendrik » 08 Jul 2009, 13:15

For sure myself you don't need to tell that :D

But there are still enough out there taking the bait again and agin...

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Post by Piotr Kapuscinski » 11 Jul 2009, 14:20

Domen121 wrote:Hilary Minc - Jew (mother's surname: Fajersztajn), communist, Stalin's agent, before the war - in 20s and 30s - demanded incorporation of Polish part of Upper Silesia to Germany (sic !), responsible for propaganda and terror.
Jewish-communist propaganda under command of Hilary Minc was convincing citizens of Poland that Germans were very happy about their departure from Poland - PKF ("Polish Newsreel"), October 1946 - "Germans are leaving Poland":

"Germans are leaving Poland! May they pack their goods and chattels and go away to their homeland."

"We don't persecute them - on the contrary - authorities do everything to make their departure from Poland easier! Humours of departing Germans are the best evidences of this.":

"Vatican officialy protested against brutal treatment of Germans leaving Poland - what a pity that there are no representatives of Vatican here - they would become convinced that there are no reasons for anxiety!"

"These gentlemen are German professors of the University in Wroclaw - our scholars who came here to organize a Polish university, provided them with a truck."

"We don't seek vengeance. We don't remind them how they treated us in dangerous days of September 1944".

"This is how the tragic way of Poles from Warsaw to the camp in Pruszkow looked like (1:57 - 2:05). And this is how Germans are leaving (since 2:06)."

"Heaters in carriages, blankets, bundles, provisions... - we give them everything they need! Good luck! Goodbye forever!":



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Re: 'Homeland' for Germans expelled from modern Poland?

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Post by Ypenburg » 12 Jul 2009, 02:00

Jewish-communist propaganda under command of Hilary Minc was convincing citizens of Poland
You've been blaming half Western- and Eastern-Europe and the Jews within all your postings on this forum 'till now. Is there any point to all this??? :roll:

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Post by David Thompson » 12 Jul 2009, 05:31

I agree. This is a very peculiar formulation, Domen121:
Jewish-communist propaganda under command of Hilary Minc was convincing citizens of Poland that Germans were very happy about their departure from Poland
How did Jewish-communist propaganda differ from regular Polish-communist propaganda? And since communist regimes are typically atheist, what does the term "Jewish" add to the description? Was there a different, Catholic-communist propaganda which should be distinguished from the Jewish-communist one?

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Post by michael mills » 12 Jul 2009, 09:56

There is in fact a very clear point to Domen121's formulation of "Jewish-Communist propaganda" in Poland.

The Communist Government imposed on Poland by Stalin consisted disproportionately of Jewish Communists, who had been in exile in the Soviet Union. Stalin had dragged them out of obscurity to be the new "Polish" Government after the German occupiers were driven out of Poland.

To be sure, some leading Polish Communists were ethnic Poles, such as Bierut and Wanda Wasilewska. However, persons of Jewish ethnic origin were markedly over-represented.

In the late 1940s, there was a joke commonly told by Poles:

One Jew = a hero of the ghetto
Two Jews = a chess game
Three Jews = the Polish Government.

Why "three Jews"? There were three Jewish Communists who formed a sort of troika holding leading positions in the Polish Government; two were Hilary Minc and Jakub Berman, I have forgotten the name of the third, but I think he was in charge of rhe security police.

In the inter-war period, the Jews living in Poland had very rarely been Polish nationalists, and in fact most tended to oppose it. In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, leaders of the Jewish community had strongly opposed the creation of an independent Poland, preferring to remain part of Russia with its large Jewish population. Once an independent Polish state had been created, most Jews living in it tended to support political parties espousing Jewish nationalism, either Zionism or Bundism, or Jewish religious separatism, such as Aggudat Yisrael, or else Leftist parties such as the Socialists or Communists. They did not show much loyalty to the Polish state in the form in which it existed at that time.

Furthermore, in the interwar period, Jews living in Poland were not particularly anti-German. They often combined politically with the German minority to achieve their goals.

Thus, in the period immediately after the Second World War, the new Communist Party, and particularly the jewish members of it, seemed to ethnic Poles to be acting in a peculiarly hypocritical way. In essence, the Communist Government had appropriated the agenda of Polish nationalism, in particular that of Endecja, and claimed to be achieving long-held Polish nationalist goals, such as the creation of an ethnically homogeneous Poland without significant minorities, or the "recovery" of former Polish lands in the West and the expulsion of the German population.

To the average ethnic Pole watching the propaganda film posted by Domen121, it must have seemed ironic that here was a bunch of Jews claiming to speak on behalf of Polish nationalism which Jews had previously opposed, that a government claiming to create an ethnically pure "Poland for the Poles" consisted largely of Jews, who had previously bitterly opposed that idea.

It is in that sense that Domen121's formulation of "Jewish Communist propaganda" is meaningful. A Government that was to a large extent not ethnically Polish was trying to curry favour with the Polish population by presenting itself as "untra-Polish", as being embodiment of polish national aspirations.

None of what I have written above is intended to defend Polish nationalism, simply to explain it.

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Post by michael mills » 12 Jul 2009, 10:07

A correction to my previous post:

The third member of the "Jewish troika", along with Jakub Berman and Hilary Minc, was Roman Zambrowski. However, it was Jakub Berman who was in charge of the UB, the political police.

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Post by cortodanzigese » 12 Jul 2009, 11:10

The late 1940s are proof of how Jews are grateful for all the aid the received from Poles during german occupation. Had Goebbels been alive in 1950 he'd have great new material for his propaganda about nature of the jewry.

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Post by PeterOT » 12 Jul 2009, 13:08

cortodanzigese wrote:The late 1940s are proof of how Jews are grateful for all the aid the received from Poles during german occupation. Had Goebbels been alive in 1950 he'd have great new material for his propaganda about nature of the jewry.
Had Goebbels been alive and producing propaganda about the 'nature of Jewry' in 1950 there would have been very few Jews left in Europe to propagandize about.

Mods: do we really have to put up with this sort of nasty stuff?

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Post by cortodanzigese » 12 Jul 2009, 13:35

No, we don't have to talk about "nasty stuff", but it is not me who started this discussion!

Still, in Poland there is ongoing debate, why Jews hate Poles so much, despite the relief effort provided by the Poles...

Not my nationality not my problem. I only note the phenomenon.

edit: Goebbels alive hypothetically in 1950 does not mean Third Reich actually victorious.

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Post by henryk » 12 Jul 2009, 19:32

Michael Mills said:
Once an independent Polish state had been created, most Jews living in it tended to support political parties espousing Jewish nationalism, either Zionism or Bundism, or Jewish religious separatism, such as Aggudat Yisrael, or else Leftist parties such as the Socialists or Communists.
I remind Michael of my post:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=94928
Jews in Interwar Poland Did Not Vote Communist
by henryk on February 3rd, 2006, 3:06 pm
Contrary to popular belief, few Polish Jews voted for Communist parties in Interwar Poland.

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Post by David Thompson » 12 Jul 2009, 19:45

Michael -- You wrote:
To the average ethnic Pole watching the propaganda film posted by Domen121, it must have seemed ironic that here was a bunch of Jews claiming to speak on behalf of Polish nationalism which Jews had previously opposed, that a government claiming to create an ethnically pure "Poland for the Poles" consisted largely of Jews, who had previously bitterly opposed that idea.
This observation is just as true of Polish or any other kind of communists, supposedly representing the idea of international solidarity while engaged in ethnic repression. So what?

The discussion here is on the issue of a homeland for displaced Germans. Consequently, remarks involving Jewish communists are only marginally relevant to the topic, if they're relevant at all. Furthermore, it looks like an effort to change the subject from the expulsion of ethnic Germans to bigoted notions of "Judaeo-Bolshevism." Let's start discussing the topic at hand.

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Post by michael mills » 13 Jul 2009, 06:15

The broader topic is the expulsion of ethnic Germans from territory annexed by Poland after the Second World War, with specific reference to the repercussions of that event being felt today.

As I have pointed out, the expansion of Poland to the west by annexing the eastern territory of Germany had long been the aim of Polish nationalists, particularly of Endecja and the "western school" of Polish nationalism. That aim had previously been rejected by the Polish leftist parties, the Socialists and the Communists; it had also not been supported by Jews living in Poland, who were focussed on specifically Jewish nationalist issues, such as minority rights within Poland, or the Zionist ideal.

The Polish nationalist aim, the expulsion of the German population from the territories annexed by Poland, which the subject of this thread, was achieved by a government of Poland that was

(A) a coalition of Communists and Socialists; and

(B) disproportionately composed of persons of Jewish origin.

It was not achieved by Polish nationalists, or indeed primarily by ethnic Poles.

I regard that fact as a great historical irony, which should be contemplated dispassionately without getting upset about the concept of "Judeo-Bolshevism", which is no more of a bogey than the concept of "Judeo-Christianity".

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Re: 'Homeland' for Germans expelled from modern Poland?

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Post by Sid Guttridge » 13 Jul 2009, 11:26

Hi Michael,

You write, "It was not achieved by Polish nationalists, or indeed primarily by ethnic Poles."

Quite apart from the fact that this is an unsupported premise of doubtful accuracy, given the few Polish Jews who remained to apparently expell the Germans on their own, why would it matter who did the expulsions if they were justifiable?

These eastern territories were Germany's only territorial loss of pre-war turf.

Without their loss, Germany would have suffered no enduring punishment for a war its leadership had unleashed and which killed (amongst many others) some six million Polish citizens, only a tiny proportion of them combatants.

Of course, this enduring punishment fell on only one specific segment of the German population, but I would suggest that, as the loss of these eastern lands was a punishment for the whole of Germany, it was and is up to other Germans to compensate their displaced fellow countrymen.

I see no great injustice in the transfer of territory. However, the manner of the expulsions and the accompanying deaths are another matter.

Cheers,

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Post by Jan-Hendrik » 13 Jul 2009, 11:59

Aha, Mr Guttridge is an admirer of collective guilt 8O

Than you better pray that Great Britain will never get the bill for its colonial behaviour presented :wink:

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Post by cortodanzigese » 13 Jul 2009, 12:47

I see no great injustice in the transfer of territory. However, the manner of the expulsions and the accompanying deaths are another matter.
Transfer of London to the Kenyans, perhaps? :roll:

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