fucking POLISH BASTARDS.
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...Meanwhile, the Germans, who have discovered that they are victims for the first time since Weimar, want to build a monument and archive in Berlin to honor those ethnic Germans who were forced to flee from Poland and elsewhere along the eastern front after the end of World War II. But the pesky Poles protested, explaining to the Germans that, actually, Germans really weren't the victims in the second world war. According to the Polish press agency PAP, at a press conference in Gdansk, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski met with German President Johannes Rau and signed a declaration expressing regret for all of the dislocations experienced by warring Europeans. (A piece on the proposed "Center against Expulsions" appears in Die Welt.)
Kwasniewski reminded Rau that he is "the president of a country which has had to pit itself against problems of a difficult past. These have to be solved on the basis of the truth but in the spirit of reconciliation. We do not question anything which had place in history but we remember who caused World War II and we believe that a debate on the subject today makes sense insofar as it will help us to communicate better and to reconcile, rather than building new chasms and walls." In Paris and in Berlin, this was taken as a wildly controversial statement.
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...Meanwhile, the Germans, who have discovered that they are victims for the first time since Weimar, want to build a monument and archive in Berlin to honor those ethnic Germans who were forced to flee from Poland and elsewhere along the eastern front after the end of World War II. But the pesky Poles protested, explaining to the Germans that, actually, Germans really weren't the victims in the second world war. According to the Polish press agency PAP, at a press conference in Gdansk, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski met with German President Johannes Rau and signed a declaration expressing regret for all of the dislocations experienced by warring Europeans. (A piece on the proposed "Center against Expulsions" appears in Die Welt.)
Kwasniewski reminded Rau that he is "the president of a country which has had to pit itself against problems of a difficult past. These have to be solved on the basis of the truth but in the spirit of reconciliation. We do not question anything which had place in history but we remember who caused World War II and we believe that a debate on the subject today makes sense insofar as it will help us to communicate better and to reconcile, rather than building new chasms and walls." In Paris and in Berlin, this was taken as a wildly controversial statement.
