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Radiofeatures des Polnischen Rundfunks

Mai 27, 2008 um 9:43 · Gespeichert unter Kunst und Kultur, Regionen

HIer einige Hörfunkbeiträge des Auslandsdienstes des Polnischen Rundfunks zum Thema Schlesien; auf der betreffenden Seite oben auf “Anhören” klicken:

Angesichts der bevorstehenden EM in der Schweiz und Österreich zu Anfang ein Ausblick auf die EM 2012 in Polen: Wie weit ist Krakow mit den Vorbereitungen für die Fußball-EM 2012?
EM 2012 in Schlesien?”

Ferner:

Schlesische Brühmtheiten
Hatte Karl Marx schlesische Wurzeln? Welche bekannten Persönlichkeiten stammen eigentlich aus Schlesien und der Umgebung?

Kommen die besten Architekten aus Schlesien?

Polkaabend in Katowice
In Katowice wurde zum ersten Mal ein Stück in der schlesischen Mundart aufgeführt…

Schlesien freut sich über Schengen
Schlesien ist seit jeher eine Grenzregion. Was bedeutet der Schengenbeitritt für Śląsk?

3 Kommentare »

  Joanna wrote @ Mai 29, 2008 at 9:16

Hallo Michael!
Ich war im April in Katowice, wollte unbedingt das Theaterstück “Polterabend” (so ist der Titel) sehen, leider waren die Eintrittskarten ausverkauft. Da habe ich mich für “Cholonek” im Theater Korez entschieden, nach dem Buch vom Janosch (ja! “der” Janosch), auch in schlesische Sprache, es war eine sehr gute Entscheidung, auch eine Familiengeschichte, so typisch für Schlesien. 150 Min. entweder Lachen oder Weinen, keine einzige Minute ohne irgendwelche Reaktion. Es wäre was für Mauga. Gruß! Joanna

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  Peter R. Aikman wrote @ September 28, 2008 at 1:54

Hallo! Ich bin Amerikaner und SEHR stolz
meiner deutscher Abstammung!
Hello everyone! World War II was not a ‘Good’ war, as they want us to believe. It was a Bad war
like ALL wars!

How Three Million Germans Died AFTER the War was Over
Why the Germans were ALSO Victims of World War II

The crimes committed AGAINST the Germans by the Allies in WW II were almost as horrendous as those committed
BY the Germans. Five hundred thousand Germans, mainly women, children and old people were victims of the Air War which left European cultural centers such as Dresden a desert of smoldering ruins. The purpose of these bombings was to to terrorize the German civilian home front. Attempts to hinder German war production by bombing were basically unsuccessful.

Another serious crime against the Germans was the treatment of German POWs in open areas along the Rhine. This was primarily an American endeavor. Hundreds of Germans died in these camps due to the lack of cover and adequate food. Germans who tried to throw food and water over the wire were physically threatened.

Certainly ‘die Flucht und Vertreibung’ (flight and expulsion) was a GERMAN holocaust. At least l5 million Germans were
forcibly and brutally expelled from Eastern Germany and Eastern and Southern Europe by Poles, Czechs and Russians. In many cases, they were expelled from areas which had been Prussian and/or German for as long as 800 years (East Prussia). Of the l5 million Germans expelled from their ancestral homes, some 2 million died from mass rape, murder, beatings and starvation on the road to what was left of Germany.
Women and young girls were mass raped from the ages of 8 to 80. Old men and boys who tried to protect them were often
castated and beaten or shot to death. Many of the German women who were raped were killed and, in some cases, nailed
(crucified) to barn doors as documented in Nemmersdorf, East Prussia. (See videos on www. youtube.de.)
The Allies’ criminal and ill-conceived decision to deprive Germany of l/4 of her land in the East resulted in some 82 million
residents of ‘rump’ Germany now being crammed into an area the size of Montana. Poland, with a much smaller population, is nearly as big as her western neighbor (nemesis). Within Poland’s borders are the old German provinces of Silesia, half of former East Prussia, West Prussia, Danzig and parts of Brandenburg. Gone are the bastions of German culture such as Koenigsberg,
Breslau, Danzig and Stettin. Stettin is on the WEST side of the Oder but it was still given to the Poles. What German could not help but feel the pain and helplessness of such unfair criminal losses?
Of course, the propaganda is that since the Russians refused to give back the eastern part of Poland which they had taken
in conjunction with the Nazi in l939, Germany was to be deprived of territory in the east to compensate poor Poland. Rarely known is the fact that Poland had taken the land in the East from the Soviet Union back in the 20s when the Soviets were weak.
As early as l920, Lord Curzon, the British Foreign Minister, had proposed that the so-called Curzon Line would be a fair border
for Poland. The present boarder of Poland with Russia is now basically along the Curzon Line so the need to fill the Polish
goose with East German corn was a hypocritical fallacy.
I am an American who served in West Germany twice during the Cold War. I learned about the Flight and Expulsion from Germans who had lost their homes and everything else and had experienced first-hand famine, mass rape and the murder of their loved ones. Even I, an American, who experienced none of this feel compelled to study this great injustice while experiencing deep sorrow, pain and anger. I find it haard to believe that America and its allies sanctioned these crimes against the German people. Yes, there are treaties forced on the Germans so they could achieve unification which recognize the
inappropriate Oder-Neisse Line. But as Abramam Lincoln said, ‘Nothing is settled untdil it is settled fairly. The problem of the flight and expulsion and Germany’s eastern border with Poland will continue to fester until a fair solution is found.
Perhaps Americans could better understand the feelings of millions of German expellees if they could imagine the US losing a war and the victors arbitrarily awarding my home state California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and the great state of Texas to Mexico. If the truth be known, Mexico had a much more valid claim to these states than Poland ever did to Eastern Germany.
Our friends the Brits could better understand if they would allow themselves to imagine the lost of one quarter of their present territory.
One last thought; the German expellees from the very first days formally renounced violence and revenge when it came to reclaiming their homes and property. If they had not done this, can you imagine what the situation might be even now.
Like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, they very might very well might be daily acts of violence between the German expellees and the Poles.
Instead, the German expellees have remained peaceful, but never the less, well aware of the great injustice that was done to them. Someone has said, ‘The greatest loss there is, is the loss of one’s home.’

Dear Friends, If you find the above interesting, I would be grateful if you could do some research about the ‘Flight and Expulsion.’ Ask your German friends and aquaintances if they are from the ‘lost lands’ in the East. Ask them about their experiences at the end of the War. You will be amazed and perhaps shocked by what they went through. There are some informative videos on http://www.youtube.de (and com) showing the explusion and atrocities against the Germans.

Sincere best wishes to you all, Peter

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  Peter R. Aikman wrote @ September 28, 2008 at 2:00

geprüft, kein Virus gefunden 665 KB

O, Schlesien !

Name: Peter R. Aikman data: 2008-07-09 18:56:15 email: itspete99@aol.com
Perhaps it would be interesting, Wanda to visit Poland, but only if I could visit the west and north meaning the areas forcibly taken from the Germans at the end of the War. Yes, I would like to see ‘old’ Breslau, Stettin and Danzig. Even though I’m sure I would have trouble recognizing much even with my dog-eared Baedeker from 1937 since I’m American and have never been there.
As people say, even the stones in these areas speak German (meaning the castles, magnificent churches etc.) built over the centuries by the Germans. The grave stones in the cemeteries also ’speak’ German although there are few of them left,
having been bulldozed by the present inhabitants.
On a more serious notes, I can’t comprehend why you feel the ‘Bund der Vertriebene’ (Organization of Expellees) is involved with propaganda. All they are doing is trying to set the record straight after some sixty years when what happened TO the Germans was taboo. How do you ever expect them to grieve and find some closure if they aren’t allowed to tell their storiesd? Of course, the Poles and Czechs etc. don’t want these stories told. It makes them look bad at this point in history. But the truth is the truth, however painful. There are numerous documented accounts of roving bands of Polish and Czech young thugs murdering, raping, robbing and destroying the German expellees and their property. The Poles and Czechs (who expelled the Germans from the Sudetenland)
are hoping against hope that once the first generation German expellees are dead, the subject will be forgotten. But this will not be the case. The children of these Germans and their children etc. will continue to remember this terrible injustice. I have several good Mexican friends who still verbalize on occasion that the US stole Texas and Mexico from THEM some 250 years ago. Also the Russians and Poles are still arguing over the massacre at Katyn.
As Lincoln, stated, ‘Nothing is settled until it is settled FAIRLY.’ Germany was forced by her so-called Allies to recognize the Oder-Neisse line as the price for unification with the former East Germany. Notice I said unification not reunification. Reunification would have been Germany within her 1937 boarders. The Allies initially at the start of the War agreed to treat Germany in her 1937 boarders. This quickly went out the windows, however, when they decided they were fighting the Germans and not just the Nazis.
I can’t say much about ‘Der Spiegel’ and its magazine and web sites etc. which you seem to place in the ‘right-nationalist’ cubby hole. My impression has always been that they tend to be ‘a little left’.
Again, three millions Germans died primarily in the east AFTER the War was officially over and the Unconditional Surrender documents signed (one in Reims and one in Berlin.) As unbelievable as this is, it happened due to the horrors of the Expulsion.
I ask myself how could this have happened as often as I ask how is it possible that the Holocaust occurred. The Allies promised at Potsdam that the Expulsion would be humane and orderly. It was not. How did they imagine that fifteen million people could be humanely removed (ofte in Winter) from their ancient homelands.
I would politely ask everyone to read about what happened to the Germans at the end of the War. There are several excellent, recent books now available on the subject: ‘After the Reich’ by Giles MacDonogh and
‘Human Smoke’ by Nicholson Baker. Sixty years after the end of the War, Hollywood and
elsewhere continue to vomit up B-movies portraying the Germans collectively as evil Nazis devoid of any humanity. The number of comments and fascination with the Nazi (visible on this web site as on many others) causes me to wonder if I can ever make a difference. In any case, the probability of my not continuing to try is considerably remote.

Name: Peter Rentschler Aikman data: 2008-07-04 23:28:37 email: itspete99@aol.com
The Germans were victims of World War II no less than the other nations involved in this horrendous catastrophe. The crimes committed against women and girls ages 8 to 80 (mass rape) by the Russians is incomprehensible. The terror Air War killed half a millions Germans, primarily women, children and old people. At the end of the War, the Americans let hundreds of thousands of German POWs die due to lack of shelter and adequate food. How many of you know that Germany lost her ancient eastern provinces of East Prussia, Silesia, East Pomerania etc. where Germans had lived, in some cases, for hundreds of years?
How would we Americans feel if we lost a war and the Mexicans took back the lands that were historically theirs. At least the Mexicans have a much better claim to the US Southwest and California than the Russians, Poles and Czechs do to East Prussia,
Silesia and the Sudetenland. Before uttering ‘Nazi’ under our breath, I would ask all of us to learn more about both sides of the War which caused the Germans to be as they are today. Maybe we won’t so quickly come to the conclusion that we hate Germany! Today is the 4th of July and you know what the Americans are saying, ‘Love it or leave it!’ With best wishes and with the hope that the next Expatica topic will be a little more up living. How about the rebirth of Dresden 60 years after its
senseless destruction in a holocaust firestorm?

Name: Peter data: 2008-07-02 13:40:16 email: itspete99@apl.com
The Allies forfeited any right to moral superiority when they committed crimes against the Germans of an equal or greater degree than the crimes committed by the Germans themselves. The death of half of a million Germans in the terror Air War, the death of some two million Germans during the flight and expulsion from Eastern Europe and the death of hundreds of thousands of German POWs showed the Allies to be no less morally corrupt than the Germans.
Although we are urged to call World War II ‘the good war’, it was as bad as all wars due in no small part to the revenge-motivated atrocities of the Russian and the other Allies.

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