The General Political Thread

[Toffee]

I just wanna know what marks got banned for tbh

Edit: Did I get shafted?

[Vincenzo]

For that money germany could invade poland a 2nd time.

I've started the first part of the invasion, I'm successfully undercover living in Ostpreußen.  I have not been detected yet, nobody will expect the coming invasion.
Deutschland über alles!

[Riddlez]

You re Dutch mate, tone it down a notch

[Toffee]

Dutch courage

[Edwin]

Not the first time the Dutch have collab'd with the Nazis Germany t b h

[Theodin]

How to pay down the national debt: by Poland

[Vincenzo]

You re Dutch mate, tone it down a notch

We are all Deutschers! 

Without jokes, the country I live in currently (Poland) is run by right wing catholic idiots that are really good at destroying the country, Germany should mostly just ignore this call for reparations.

It's stupid and mostly a ploy by the government here to make people in Poland hate Germans, because then they can point at them and the EU and say that people should blame them for the internal Polish problems with economy, taxes, and corruption.

[Karth]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/851707/Germany-WW2-Poland-reparations-compensation-Angela-Merkel-Nazis

A P O L O G I S E.

What a meme, would make sense if Nazis were still in power

[StevenChilton]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/851707/Germany-WW2-Poland-reparations-compensation-Angela-Merkel-Nazis

A P O L O G I S E.

What a meme, would make sense if Nazis were still in power

The amount they want is ridiculous but they have a point-they were an unwilling Soviet satellite state post-1945 and the USSR stopped them claiming reparations they were legitimately owed. Germany got off pretty lightly if you look at reparations paid vs damage caused in Poland.

[Toffee]

I think the concept was trying not to have a repeat of the TOV but that's just my opinion

[Vincenzo]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/851707/Germany-WW2-Poland-reparations-compensation-Angela-Merkel-Nazis

A P O L O G I S E.

What a meme, would make sense if Nazis were still in power

The amount they want is ridiculous but they have a point-they were an unwilling Soviet satellite state post-1945 and the USSR stopped them claiming reparations they were legitimately owed. Germany got off pretty lightly if you look at reparations paid vs damage caused in Poland.

So poland should give back the regions of Pommern, Silesien, West and east prussia to Germany? or pay for the land they gained during the soviet occupation?

This whole reparations shit is stupid and out of sense.. even in the latest 2004 treaty Poland agreed with the membership of the EU to not pursue any further reparations.

Things are how they are now in europe. and history cannot be changed. the people that suffered from the war are mostly dead themselves now, can we finally move on? The current German government and the current German people are not at all responsible for what happened so many years ago.

But once again, its only a Polish political ploy to make people hate Germans and keep the polish population from talking about internal problems, which Poland have many.

[StevenChilton]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/851707/Germany-WW2-Poland-reparations-compensation-Angela-Merkel-Nazis

A P O L O G I S E.

What a meme, would make sense if Nazis were still in power

The amount they want is ridiculous but they have a point-they were an unwilling Soviet satellite state post-1945 and the USSR stopped them claiming reparations they were legitimately owed. Germany got off pretty lightly if you look at reparations paid vs damage caused in Poland.

So poland should give back the regions of Pommern, Silesien, West and east prussia to Germany? or pay for the land they gained during the soviet occupation?

This whole reparations shit is stupid and out of sense.. even in the latest 2004 treaty Poland agreed with the membership of the EU to not pursue any further reparations.

Things are how they are now in europe. and history cannot be changed. the people that suffered from the war are mostly dead themselves now, can we finally move on? The current German government and the current German people are not at all responsible for what happened so many years ago.

But once again, its only a Polish political ploy to make people hate Germans and keep the polish population from talking about internal problems, which Poland have many.

Poland didn't gain any land overall post-1945, in fact it lost it. Sure Germany had to give up 101,000 km2 to Poland, but in return Poland had to give up 178,000 km2 to the USSR. That's a net loss of 77,000 km2.

Sure Poland was forced to accept the 1953 decision in return for EU membership, but that doesn't escape the fact that they were totally screwed over during the post-1945 negotiations. Soviet interests came first. It's both a ploy and a legitimate grievance, but Germany should pay *something*. If it can spend 20bn Euros on refugees in 2016 alone then it can cough up for the Poles.

[Toffee]

I guess we better compensate all the desendents of the people caught up in the slave trade then. Maybe say sorry to the French for the Hundred Years' War whilst we're at it.

[Theodin]

I guess we better compensate all the desendents of the people caught up in the slave trade then. Maybe say sorry to the French for the Hundred Years' War whilst we're at it.

I don't remember when the descendants of the slave trade and the French were promised reparations and then taken over by a foreign power and turned them down against the interests of those people

[Toffee]

I guess we better compensate all the desendents of the people caught up in the slave trade then. Maybe say sorry to the French for the Hundred Years' War whilst we're at it.

I don't remember when the descendants of the slave trade and the French were promised reparations and then taken over by a foreign power and turned them down against the interests of those people

So because something happened which prevented them from receiving the funds then means that a country which has nothing to do with Nazism anymore has to cough up money? My point is that you can't come back over 70 years later to try and reverse something that has happened through no fault of the German government. The world has moved on and demanding money only creates divisions rather than doing any real justice.