RE: How Catholic was Hitler?
August 30, 2017 at 1:31 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2017 at 3:27 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 30, 2017 at 1:00 pm)CatholicDefender Wrote: Kind of odd if you think of it, but I think historically Germany/Prussia treated Poland quite similarly to how the Brits treated Ireland.
The historic areas of Germany that bordered Poland were basically all Lutheran and they had been viewing the Poles as untermenschen for centuries before Hitler. Not exactly sure why, since Warsaw and Cracow were modern cities, but whatever
The difference is once upon a time, say between 15th and 17th century, it was Poland that was the great European power in the region while Prussia was kinda insignificant. It was the great polish army that broke the siege of Vienna by the hitherto invincible armies of the ottoman Turks, and saved Central Europe and the heart of Christiandom from becoming a province of the sultan in Constantinople. The Prussians or brandenbergers or whatever they called themselves at the time were scarcely to be seen. I think the germans never lived that down. Those with a superiority complex usually have a nagging feeling of inferiority in their innermost selves. The Germans may have been particularly vicious to the poles because the poles do have a memory of national greatness they refuse to abandon, and remember when the Prussians were nobody back when, and are not too Impressed with the prussians now.