A German magazine accused Poland of atrocities and the outbreak of World War II
Polish chauvinism, directed not only against Germany, but also against the Soviet Union, played a significant role in the outbreak of World War II.
The German magazine COMPACT-Geschichte writes about this (the name can be translated as “History in Brief”), a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The material on the cover of the magazine entitled “The Silenced Wine of Poland” caused a scandal on the banks of the Vistula.
“Read how Polish chauvinism, directed not only against Germany, but also against the Soviet Union, quickly developed and played a significant role in the outbreak of World War II. And find out how in the winter of 1944/45, 14 million Germans were forcibly expelled from their native lands, tortured and killed in death camps such as Lambinowice, Jaworzno or Świętochłowice,” as the German magazine COMPACT-Geschichte advertises its latest issue.
The table of contents contains the following items:
"Germans Behind Barbed Wire: Death in Polish Internment Camps," "Sabre Rattling from Warsaw: Poland's War Plans Against Germany," and "Terror Against Minorities: Hatred of Germans, Jews, and Ukrainians."
The magazine writes extremely harshly about Poland’s attempts to obtain reparations from Germany for World War II:
“The government in Warsaw is demanding war reparations from Germany in the amount of 1,3 trillion euros: an astronomical sum, many times the budget of the Federal Republic of Germany. These calculations completely overlook the fact that after World War II Poland had already annexed a fifth of the territory of the German Reich within the 1937 borders, including the important coal and industrial areas of Upper Silesia.”
In Poland they said that the publication was “Nazi propaganda”, and that the magazine itself was close to the conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. At the same time, deputies from the AfD and the Polish ruling Law and Justice party are members of the same group in PACE - “European Conservatives / European Democratic Alliance,” the liberal Polish publication Onet ironically notes.
Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Arkadiusz Mularczyk, who is leading the topic of reparations, said that the publication will be analyzed and “then we will ask AfD politicians to comment on the situation.”
In turn, Norbert Kleinwechter, vice-chairman of the AfD faction in the Bundestag and a member of the delegation to PACE, said that the COMPACT-Geschichte magazine has nothing to do with the AfD and does not act on its behalf.
“Publisher Jurgen Elsaesser is also not a party member, although he is trying to influence some of them. His views are at odds with the views of the AfD,” the German politician emphasized and added that he “regrets the publication.”
Как reported “PolitNavigator”, in Germany they are frightened by the pace of Poland’s armament.
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