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From: Jerzy Pankiewicz <>
Subject: Re: Silesia and Sudetenland
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 08:23:40 GMT


Alan Seth Weiner <> wrote:

: Then when you wrote, "Such is the logic of people impressed by
: propaganda from their earliest childhood and why somehow the myth of guilt
: by ethnic group has not moved on from that of 50 years ago.", and use terms
: like "propaganda" and "myth of guilt", it sounds like you are moving closer
: and closer to saying things which are illegal in Germany.

I haven't read the original posting by Fred Rump,
so I can only comment a quote in Alan's posting.
As far as I understand Fred's ideas,
he thinks that Poles are guilty of crimes committed
on Germans after the war but there is a myth of German guilt.
Am I wrong?
It's true, that many Poles committed crimes on Germans after the war.
The subject can be discussed in Poland openly only since 1989.
Police archives are still, at least partially, closed.
The subject of post-war deportations and crimes
has been discussed by the Polish-German school manuals
committee but I don't know the results. Polish members of the committee
have been selected by the Party.
Alan has presented my point of view much better
that I could - I don't know Stutthof.
The only camp which I have visited was Kulm, totally
destroied, only forest and a monument.
BTW Kulm is known as Chelmno nad Nerem, very few Poles know
the German name.
Jerzy Pankiewicz

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