I just knew this thread would draw a Polish nationalist with the typical hysterical condemnations of Germany's military operation against a bellicose and antagonistic country that was persecuting ethnic Germans in rightfully German lands. What about the millions of white Poles murdered by the soviets? Let me guess, Bromberg 'Bloody Sunday' was Nazi propaganda and the Poles peacefully and humanely expelled ethnic Germans from their homes east of the Oder-Neisse line after the war too.
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Bromberg was inexcusable, but the Germans had already invaded Poland two days previously on the basis of lies about Poles attacking Germans at the border. The Poles paid the price for Bromberg many times over, thanks to the bestial reprisals of the Germans. The expulsion of the Germans after the war was unjust, but that is a consequence of the war waged by Germany against Poland, as well as many other countries with German populations. The destruction of those German communities outside Germany that existed for centuries lies largely with Hitler.
It's called Bydgoszcz, Wank126. Say it with me now: Bydgoszcz.
The Krwawa Niedziela atrocities were bad indeed, but the Nazis used this event to justify their takeover of Poland. @Hasan Prishtina has a huge point. They were scared of Hitler, and rightly so.
One branch of my family lost a lot of property in what used to be called Koenigsburg, but I have never been able to accept the concept of " rightfully German lands." Europeans don't like to think of themselves as a collection of tribes fighting over territory, but until recently, that's what they were. Every single group came from someplace else originally. No different than the Native Americans or Africans, except for their map-making skills.
..persecuting ethnic Germans in rightfully German lands
1) Germans were in minority in Posnania and Pomerelia;
..and the Poles peacefully and humanely expelled ethnic Germans from their homes east of the Oder-Neisse line after the war too.
While I agree the establishment of the Oder-Neisse line was greatly unjust and cruel and made me grateful of not having been invaded by Stalin and the Reds, I'm forced to agree with Hasan Prishtina in saying Hitler bears the main responsability for triggering the World War Two and exterminating the Slavic and Jewish populations, crimes which enabled the state of mind which allowed the expulsion of 14 millions of Germans.
It's also not like Poland just grabbed land from Germany after the war. Poland lost a big part of its eastern regions to Stalin, and got about an equal amount of land back from Germany. There were almost as many Poles being driven out of their homes and resettled as Germans. Not that that makes it any better, but the responsibility lies with Hitler for starting the war and Stalin for ruthlessly redrawing borders in his own favor.
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