It is inappropriate that during the commemoration of the airdrops during the 1944 Battle of Arnhem, which is so important to Poles amongst others, Germans should participate in the commemorative parachute jumps.
Seemingly small and irrelevant actions can in fact contribute to far-reaching changes. That’s how it is with historical politics. Germany is making such changes in the international consciousness through several small, seemingly unimportant moves.
The effect is that many people have started to believe that the German nation is in no way responsible for the Second World War, which was provoked by some “Nazis”. An Italian travel guide had once written, that Lombardy had been attacked by multiple peoples throughout history – “Longobards, Huns and Nazis.”
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Germans or Nazis?
We must remember that not every German was a Nazi (a member of the Nazi party), but every Nazi was a German because the party did not admit people of other nationalities, writes Leszek Żebrowski for conservative weekly magazine Do Rzeczy
Poland should come before Germany when it comes to rebuilding Ukraine
Jakub Maciejewski, the war correspondent in the Donbas for portal wPolityce.pl, writes that the scale of the destruction of Ukraine is such that Poland, if it is to be a key player in the post-war process, must have a strategy in place to handle the reconstruction process
Are Ukrainians and Poles closer than ever?
The past few weeks have brought Ukrainians and Poles closer together than they have ever been and have led to speculation as to where the limits of this new found union may lie, writes Jakub Maciejewski in portal wPolityce.pl
New axis needed in NATO, says former Polish foreign minister
Former Polish top diplomat and current MEP Witold Waszczykowski,in an interview with portal wPolityce.pl, calls for closer cooperation between members of NATO who hold the same views on security
Who is to blame for the EU’s pandemic crisis?
Depending on how efficient the EU is in fighting the pandemic, Brussels will either receive more competencies in the future or an integration crisis lies ahead of us, writes Rzeczpospolita columnist Jędrzej Bielecki
The West is losing ‘cheap’ Central and Eastern European workers due to the pandemic
Disruption of migration flow has major economic consequences
Hungary’s ruling Fidesz protests erection of Lenin statue in Germany
“Offends the memory of the victims of Communism”
Russia owes Poland war reparations: Kaczyński
According to Kaczyński, the idea that Poles were victims of Russian war crimes does not suit Vladimir Putin
Opinion: We must preserve the crimes of totalitarianism or risk losing our past
The fight for historical truth
Poland protests Nazi death camp map inaccuracy in Netflix show
Netfilx is “closely looking into the case”.
Poland and Germany can be allies on migration
Obligatory migrant quotas are a “dead idea”.
Poland’s long history of tolerance
While the European left accuse Poles of being intolerant, it would be good to remind them of the Polish tradition of tolerance, writes Jerzy Lubach.