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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 09:13 PM Original message |
History Question: Would it have been better for Poland to have been divided like Germany? |
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davepc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 09:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. I've always wondered about this, however never studied it. |
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realisticphish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 09:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. As I recall |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 09:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. It's not like the Soviets didn't have Polish sympathizers |
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realisticphish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 09:40 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. of course |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 11:28 PM Response to Reply #7 |
20. I love you dearly. Sto lat!!! |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 11:06 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. Serdecznie dziekuje! |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
3. The Poles wouldn't have accepted partition. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
4. "Some Nazi death camps in Poland were liberated by US troops." |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 10:13 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. To err is Boojatta, to forgive is JVS. |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 10:20 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. #1 is wrong. |
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DarthDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 10:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Oh, Nonono |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 10:38 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. #1 is not correct |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 11:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. Your error is conflating extermination camps and concentration camps. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
5. Check out the location of the Red Army on a map of Europe April 1945. |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
6. The Russians and Germans split up Polnd before WWII. |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 09:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. True. My grand mother fled Poland where she lived near what was to become Auschwitz. |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 11:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. I'm reading Harry Turtledove's latest what if book |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 12:11 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Which book is that? |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 06:51 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. This one |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 11:10 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Wow, one I actually hadn't heard of |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 12:37 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. I've been disappointed lately |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 01:13 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. I find the retelling aspect to be interesting, actually |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:57 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. No - I think you're absolutely right about Turtledove |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
8. American troops did not liberate any camps in Poland. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 10:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. "There was not the political will nor the military capability to take on the Red Army." |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 10:49 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I don't follow you. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 11:02 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I can try to clarify, but without a hint it's difficult to proceed. |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 11:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. It's called "diplomacy" |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 05:07 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. The zones of occupation in Germany were defined |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 11:43 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. And your point is?? |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 12:08 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. True, about the Cold War being started by American anti-communist zealots. |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 06:19 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. The point is was that it was the Roosevelt administration |
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DarthDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
13. I Don't Believe . . . . |
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