referendum said:
In addition, and this is a demand that Hitler didn't bring up in the pre-war era, the Posen/Poznan region of West Prussia had been awarded to Poland without any plebiscite or reference to the popular will in that region (though Poland had solid demographic claims to much of that area).
referendum -
Let's just place the post-WW1 demographics of the region You mentioned into historical context. At the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars (1815) about 80% of the Prussian-controlled Grand Duchy of Poznan's 800,000 population was Polish. The aforementioned date is significant as it falls a century before the outbreak of The Great War. Also keep in mind that Poznan came under Prussian control in 1793 as a result of the Second Partition of Poland.
During the nineteenth century the Prussians placed great emphasis upon the settlement of Germans in their Partition-acquired Polish territories. This was coupled with increasing limits on the use of the Polish language in the fields of education and administration.
Following the unification of Germany in 1871 Bismarck embarked upon a series of policies whose aim was the
permanent destruction of Polish identity within these German-controlled lands. A particularly intense version of
Kulturkampf was unleashed in the German partition. An 1872 ministerial decree made German compulsory in all state schools (with the exception of religious instruction). You may all be interested to learn that Polish was banned as a "foreign language" option and could not even be used as a medium for teaching Polish children the German tongue. German teachers were offered special financial payments known as
Ostmarkenzulagen as an incentive to relocate to Polish lands. In 1876 German was made compulsory in all courts and government offices.
In 1886 Bismarck established the Prussian Colonisation Commission (
Koniglich Preussische Ansiedlungskommission in den Provinzen Westpreussen und Posen) in an effort to oust Poles from the land and replace them with German settlers. This essentially comprised a fund to buy out Polish-owned estates.
The German Society for the Eastern Marches (
Deutscher Ostmarkenverein) was formed in Poznan in 1894 (nota bene, only twenty years prior to 1914). Among Poles it was referred to as the Hakata (HKT - an acronym derived from the surnames of its founders: Hansemann, Kennemann, Tiedemann) and its "mission" was to strengthen German "national identity" and economic power in the Province of Poznan. In other words, it was an anti-Polish organisation whose sole aim was to dispossess Polish landowners.
It is important to emphasise that elements of the Hakata were still very much present and active in interwar Poland while the NSDAP established a successor organisation in 1934, known as the Union of the German East (
Bund Deutscher Osten).
In the final decades before the First World War,
Ostmarkenzulagen-style incentives were extended to any German official who would serve in Poland. As a consequence, Poznan "boasted" the highest percentage of government employees of any city in the German Empire.
Now, ask yourself the following question: if all of these "Germanising" initiatives had to be implemented
during the four decades prior to 1914 can the area have been as overwhelmingly German as "pro-Hitler revisionists" would like everyone to believe? Seriously...
werewolf said:
It was Poland that was brutally occupying Germany, not the other way around. Note the bloody Blomberg massacre of German civilians in Poland in 1939.
Oh, really? You do realise that this territory - which "apologists" like you revel in referring to as "eternally German" - was gradually annexed by Prussia over the course of the three partitions of Poland (1772, 1793, 1795) don't you? I know you'll predictably dismiss everything I've already posted above as scurrilously poisonous anti-German vitriol but the fact remains that in 1815 Germans formed no more than 20% of the Duchy of Poznan's population. Despite the manifold efforts undertaken to systematically Germanise the region over the next century, Poles still constituted just over 60% of the area's population prior to the First World War.
By the way, if one travels less than 50 km ENE of Poznan one arrives at the city of Gniezno - which just happens to be the original capital of a state called Poland. It's funny how life's just one long learning experience, isn't it? Now, please enlighten me: who was occupying whose territory?
In the aftermath of the First World War the German population - which had enthusiastically supported trans-generational anti-Polish policies just a few years earlier and had treated Poles with open contempt - now magically expected those Poles to simply forget all of this and automatically treat
them as respected equals. No, not an atom of hypocrisy there. To top things off, this "German minority" was openly hostile to Poland. Many banded together in quasi-military organisations such as the
Selbstschutz and made no secret of their desire for an expeditious return to a Germany in which Poles would be repressed once again. Strangely enough, "revisionists" never mention the
Selbstschutz's part in stirring up violence during the interwar period and their active role in the early stages of the Second World War...
Old Scratch said:
However Germany did not want war with Poland and they did not want war with the UK. Germany wanted to ally with Poland in anti Communist coalition but Poland wouldn't bite because they thought Germany was the easier and juicier prize, and didn't want to give up Danzig, nor did they want to give Germany access into East Prussia.
If you believe that Hitler countenanced the long-term existence of an independent Poland - which he and the majority of Germans viewed as an insulting, unnatural aberration - then good luck to you. Any fool can see that given the constant agitation of resurrected Poland's "German minority" and Hitler's obsession with regaining territories lost after 1918 a German invasion was inevitable - regardless of whether the two countries had entered into that oft-quoted notional anti-USSR alliance or not. It was simply a matter of time. The territories immediately annexed by Hitler in 1939 extended beyond the lines of the German-Russian border of 1914, which proves that his rhetoric about merely wishing to reoccupy "German" land was - surprise, surprise - pure bollocks.
Almost eighty years later you still fulminate about the ethnic conflicts which dominated the 1920s and 1930s in the wake of the Treaty of Versailles. Just imagine the atmosphere of mutual suspicion and perceived injustice prevalent at the time and things may become clearer...
werewolf said:
but the militaristic Polish government - Hey, they had the best cavalry in the world!
Haw! Haw! Awfully witty. Come on - give us a few of your "dumb Polack" jokes. Perhaps you believe those myths about Polish cavalrymen splintering their lances on tanks and other such rot. Say, you are aware that your beloved Wehrmacht likewise employed cavalry in 1939, are you not..?
Old Scratch said:
The only evidence of the Gleiwitz incident being "staged" comes from the Nuremberg trials which utilized torture to obtain their confessions, before that it was never questioned as an authentic attack.
Well, I guess the conclusion of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact nine days prior to the opening of hostilities, complete with its projected partition of Poland in partnership with the oh-so-hated Soviets illustrated Hitler's munificent goodwill. Hang on, perhaps that was also a nefarious piece of anti-German propaganda masterminded by those sneaky Polish agents. You know, the same geezers who must have attacked the railway station at Mosty
six days prior to September 1 and bombed the station at Tarnow. Isn't it peculiar that fellows who see "false flags" absolutely everywhere look at the Gliwice (Gleiwitz, if you will...) Incident and say "yup, those perennially genocidal Poles who've been expanding into German territory for centuries did it - nothing dodgy going on here..."
By the way, any opinions about
Generalplan Ost? How about the long list of
Sonderaktion operations conducted as part of the wider
Intelliganzaktion ("elimination" of the Polish intelligentsia) strategy? Yes? No? I'll wager you'd have just loved to see those inconveniently troublesome Poles "expunged". But not all of those subhuman Polacks should have been exterminated though, eh? Well, at least not straight away. After all, some
Arbeitvolk slave labour would certainly come in handy, wouldn't it?
Old Scratch said:
History is far more nuanced than Germany/Nazis/Hitler = evil, everyone else = the good guys
Yes, history certainly
is far more nuanced than most people believe. In this case, however, you appear to believe that everything is etched in clearly contrasting black and white. The concept of
lebensraum is perfectly acceptable - if the said
lebensraum is for Germans. The Germans - particularly your idol Hitler - "dindu nuffin". Congratulations on such exemplary objectivity. Blokes like you form the obverse of the debased intellectual specie passed (so to speak...) by the fanatically self-righteous leftists whose one-eyed "scholarship" you delight in deriding.
Fall Weiss, indeed...
Let me conclude by saying this: nothing drives a railway spike into the arse of a pro-White website or organisation quite like open admiration for Hitler and attempts to justify Nazi Germany's aggressive expansionism. Such sentiments do not attract new members but only serve to turn potential members away. Like it or not, that's the brutal truth. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the purpose of Caste Football is to open the figurative eyes of "non-racially aware" Whites to the all-pervasive anti-White agendas not only in the realm of sports but in society as a whole. One thing that's guaranteed to sow the seeds of discord which sprout into the strangling weeds of disunity is the highly emotive subject of Hitler and the Second World War.
I'd rather stand side by side with Germans as fellow White men to defend our race and common European culture against the threats of
today than constantly argue about what happened in the past. The now-outdated, internecine latter approach shall ultimately condemn the nations of our race to the eternal darkness of mutual extinction as certainly as night follows day. These are the 2010's, not the 1930's. The entire geo-political paradigm has changed in little more than half a century, which is but a fleeting moment in the limitless flow of history. The world is virtually unrecognisable from that of even twenty years ago, let alone that of the 1930's. Whites have yet to realise this but Humanity stands on the brink of a pivotal era in which race, not ethnicity or nationality, shall be the primary determinant of identity. Even the majority of so-called White nationalists haven't quite grasped the magnitude of what lies just beyond the horizon and still cling to impractical ideologies whose archaic limitations only hinder the life or death cause of White racial unity.
So what happened within a
week of Caste Football's relaunch? Why, we have yet another Hitler / Nazi thread popping up in the Happy Hour section. Now, in the time it took me to make this post I could have provided a racial breakdown of the weekend's English Premier League round, or of the FA Cup quarterfinals to date, or of the Champions League round of sixteen, or made a few observations about this year's upcoming NHL draft...
Go on, tell me what is more useful: concentrating upon information pertaining to the racial politics and dynamics of
today or arguments and counter-arguments about the intra-White conflicts of the past? Call me a madman, but I'd say the former...