Poland and Kaczynski going crazy - once again.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...626171,00.html
What's wrong with these people? They find it okay to compare Merkel with Hitler, but are pissed at the EU's latest video documentation on the fall of the wall not focussing "enough" on the Polish Solidarnosc, so they claim. And in this guest comment for a german newspaper, the Polish chief editor of Poland's second-largest daily newspaper (an Axel Springer creation...) is arguing here...
http://www.welt.de/politik/article37...er-Europa.html
... that Turkey is about to convince Germany to attack and occupy Poland again, that Poland's glorious future includes Poland to become the central superpower on the continent while Germany already has lost all sympathy and chances, that Poland claims to be all europe's central energy supply- and power-node (taking all europe as hostage they dream, eh?) and that in 20-30 years, according to Polish authors' seriously meant argumentation, Japan will launch a war against the United States again.
With so massive inferiority complexes, instead of EU membership i think a collective psychotherapy would have served their national health much better. I was arguing in the past to treat them with understanding and to give them time, but there is no end in sight to their endless lamentos and poisenous attacks and unacceptable Nazi provocations, and they make good use of their claimed posture of being the eternally misunderstood most prominent victim of all history - and try to win solid gold from that. It really gets annoying, two generations after the Nazis were kicked in the a$$ with all might. A TV report three weeks ago found that despite the political, official level, the climate between Germans and Poles on a private level also is detoriating, and that anti-germanism is spreading massively throughout Polish society. Until some time ago, inter-personal relations between mmebers of both states were said to be much better.
Actually, Germany is hunting war criminals of the Nazi era, until today. Poland wants that to be limited to German nationals only, hiding that a not small number of people from Eastern countries assisted the Nazis - it violates Poland's claim to be victim exclusively. Just months ago, Austria had a hard time to learn - and accept - by new film documents from the era before Hitler annexed Austria, that Nazism already was extremely popular and celebrated in austrian society and towns and villages - long before the first German parade on Austrian streets took place. they also loved to behave as if Hitler was no Austrian, but German. But Austrian politicians and society had the strength to accept its got it, it seems. What's the prolem with Poland? Statements like in that essay, really document a seriously confused, neurotic mind obsessed with trying to be seen as a victim while dreaming megalomaniac dreams at the same time. If that is not a contradiction.
Finding out this part of history has nothing to do with minimising the responsibility of the Nazi regime for the second world war, the injustice taking place, and the horrible crimes. It all is just about learning a more complete picture. But it seems some do not want that kind of completeness if it forces them to have a critical look at their own past, too. Because the truth is that the Nazi'S found willing allies, cooperating military forces and individual assistants for their crimes in all occupied territories, throughout europe, from Norway to the Balkans, from France to Russia, and many of them were convinced anti-semites themselves, and helped the Nazis for personal convictions.