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The Polish PiS party needs the image of the ugly German

It was Germany from 1933 to 1945 that turned Europe into a death zone of the "Third Reich".

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The Polish PiS party needs the image of the ugly German

It was Germany from 1933 to 1945 that turned Europe into a death zone of the "Third Reich". It was the National Socialists who, in their deification of the people and race, committed one insane slob after another. Europe's earth is soaked with blood and tears down to the lowest crust. And it's clear who is responsible for these bestial misdeeds.

Even Konrad Adenauer made no secret of it. Even before the Federal Republic was founded, he wrote in February 1946: "In my opinion, the German people and also the bishops and the clergy bear a great deal of blame for what happened in the concentration camps."

Incidentally, the later Federal Chancellor continued, it was known that the Gestapo, the SS and the Wehrmacht in Poland and Russia had acted with unprecedented cruelty against the civilian population. "So one really cannot claim that the public did not know that the National Socialist government and the army command consistently violated natural law, the Hague Convention and the simplest principles of humanity as a matter of principle."

After a phase of vital forgetfulness, Adenauer's perspective dug deep into the German consciousness. To this day, it shapes the local mental situation. By the way, not always for the better. It is therefore almost despicable when the Polish government accuses its neighbors west of the Oder of forgetting Poland's suffering.

The country was one of the first victims of the German frenzy of meanness, the first martyr to witness air and bomb warfare, and the first to suffer genocidal killings. The great majority of the Germans are aware of the extent of the destruction, of the hecatombs of Polish dead. No money in the world will bring them back to life. Unfortunately!

Berlin has now rejected the Warsaw government's demands for reparations - and not because its coalition is obstinate, but because reparations payments of this magnitude would not only entail further (morally justified) demands from other states, but because the Polish claims - once fulfilled - would lead to weakening the Federal Republic, one of the large net contributors within the EU, in a way that would endanger the Western alliance structure. If you look at it soberly, even Warsaw cannot have any interest in this development.

The federal government, and with it the majority of the population, would be open to negotiating certain amounts of compensation with the Poles. There are also numerous demands in Warsaw's diplomatic note to Berlin that could be met. But one question remains - why?

Anyone who has followed the behavior of the PiS party since they took power will sense that the decisive constant of their identity is based on the principle: self-definition through enemy marking. The PiS needs the image of the ugly German who mistakes Slavs for slaves in order to maintain its weak-legged self.

The PiS is dependent on the distortion of its neighbors into the power-hungry would-be masters of Europe in order to intoxicate its own people with the fiery booze of anti-German propaganda. It is to be distracted from the plan to transform Poland into an illiberal democracy of an authoritarian nature.

In real cooperation, in a joint, truthfulness-striving processing of history, which includes the major German crimes as well as the question of why the Poles largely only observed the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by the Germans in 1943 But Jews hardly helped - the current government in Warsaw is not interested in all these questions and self-questioning.

She prefers to exploit history and abuse it to stay in power. Ultimately, they are acting like the communists of the old Eastern bloc, whom they hated, did. But the past should not be a weapon.

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