Never Forget - 72 Years Ago Today

The barbaric German Invasion of Poland by an army ordered by hitler to kill every Pole, man, woman, or child, to ensure living space for germany in the East, took place on September the first 1939. The picture above shows members of the soi-disant "herrenvolk" grinning as they demolish a Gdańsk road-block. The second from the left is holding the Polish Coat of Arms.

Europe was wrecked. Germans murdered 20% of the Polish population, half of them Jews. I know people who saw members of their family, including children, casually shot by passing german soldiers, who just felt like it. A friend's uncle, an eighteen-year-old  Polish boxing champion, was denounced by a volkdeutsche neighbour for possessing a radio (untrue). He was taken to the woods with other Poles, and shot. They have no known grave, but are commemmorated on a monument in Brodnica.

To me, the mercy of the victorious Western allies was remarkable, even though prompted by the need of a buffer state between the Warsaw Pact countries and the West. Henry Morgenthau, adviser to the feeble Roosevelt, had other ideas and a different plan.

Poland has still not completely recovered economically, ale jeszcze nie zgineła!