Germans, Poles clash over personnel of WWII center
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| Germans, Poles clash over personnel of WWII center By MELISSA EDDY updated 1:16 p.m. ET Feb. 26, 2009 BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday said she will take her time to resolve the latest dispute with Poland over a memorial center to Germans relocated from eastern Europe after the war. The focus this time is Erika Steinbach, a member of parliament for Merkel's ruling Christian Democratic Union and a champion of the rights of the German expellees. Steinbach, who heads the Federation of Expellees, was nominated last week to sit on the board of Berlin's proposed "Center against Expulsions."... |
Polish-German relations turn sour again
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| Polish-German relations turn sour again 20.08.2007 The Polish-German relations turn sour after the meeting of the German Union of Expellees attended by the president of the EP, Hans-Gert Poettering. During the meeting the groupÂ’s chief Erika Steinbach said that the dislocation of expellees could not be justified by Hitler's actions. Many in Poland reacted by accusing the leader of the German Union of Expellees of attempting to revive wartime animosities. Danusia Szafraniec reports This is not the first time that Erika SteinbachÂ’s statements caused strong reactions in Poland. Head of the German Union of Expellees sparked outrage in this country,... |
Polish Trustees deny poster slanders German MP
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| Polish Trustees deny poster slanders German MP Posted : Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:17:23 GMT Warsaw - The Polish Trustees on Thursday denied libelling a conservative German member of parliament by showing her posing with a Nazi officer and what appears to be a Teutonic Knight in a poster, Poland's PAP news agency reported. The Polish Trustees is a group opposed to compensating ethnic Germans who fled or were expelled from Polish territory after the Second World War. It was created to counter the activities of German organisations called the Union of Expellees and the Prussian Trustees. The Polish Trustees... |
Steinbach draws German criticism on Polish jibes
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| Steinbach draws German criticism on Polish jibes 13.03.2007 The latest negative remarks on Poland's ruling parties made by the head of the Expellees Union has triggered strong opposition of many German political quarters. Slawek Szefs reports The latest negative remarks on Poland's ruling parties made by Erika Steinbach, the head of the German Expellees Union, has triggered a wide protest among her own compatriots. This has not been the first time Erika Steinbach addressed sharp criticism towards Polish authorities. However, her description of Poland's ruling coalition parties as reflecting German ultra right groupings has caused quite a stir among domestic... |
German lawmaker compares Polish governing parties with far right at home
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| German lawmaker compares Polish governing parties with The Associated Press Published: March 6, 2007 BERLIN: The head of an organization representing Germans expelled from eastern Europe after World War II was quoted Tuesday as comparing Poland's governing parties with far-right German groups — a comparision swiftly rejected by fellow lawmakers in Berlin. Erika Steinbach, who heads the Federation of Expellees and is also a lawmaker for Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, has long been criticized in Poland. Mindful of a brutal Nazi occupation, many Poles view efforts to draw attention to the expelled Germans' plight with suspicion. Those efforts,... |
New Setback in German-Polish Ties.
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| New Setback in German-Polish Ties German President Horst Köhler has angered the Polish government by giving a speech to a group respresenting Germans expelled from Poland after World War II. But German commentators have rushed to Köhler's defense, saying Poland's Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski was wrong to condemn a speech urging expellees to respect Polish concerns. German President Horst Köhler has provoked the ire of Poland's Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski for addressing a gathering of 1,000 Germans expelled from Poland after World War II. In his speech Köhler urged Germans to be sensitive to Polish concerns about plans by the... |
Exhibition sparks Berlin criticism over Poland's human rights
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| Exhibition sparks Berlin criticism over Poland's human rights 21.08.2006 - 09:59 CET | By Honor Mahony An official from the German government has for the first time reacted to the steady souring of relations between Warsaw and Berlin and suggested human rights are being eroded in Poland. Gunter Nooke, a Christrian Democrat human rights experts for the German government, criticised Poland in the influential German weekly, Der Spiegel, about its handling of a museum exhibition highlighting the fate of the millions expelled from their homes in the 20th century, including Germans in the post war period. He told the magazine... |
Caution advised in Polish German relations
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| Caution advised in Polish German relations 14.08.2006 Poland’s former foreign minister and Euro deputy of the Democratic Party Bronis³aw Geremek considers that the present achievements on the Polish German road to reconciliation are being wasted. Geremek said that both sides have to be blamed for the situation. Speaking for Polish Radio early this morning Geremek said he was always wary of the idea of setting up a Center for Expellees in Berlin, since he said the move is aimed at promoting the political career of Erica Steinbach.With such a plan Erika Steinbach, , draws a black line on the process... |
Expellee group says it cannot afford inquiry into ex-Nazis links
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| Expellee group says it cannot afford inquiry into ex-Nazis links Aug 12, 2006, 16:02 GMT Berlin - The German refugee group that angered Poland's leaders this week with a Berlin exhibition about ethnic purges has said it cannot afford to investigate any failings in its own past. Erika Steinbach, president of the Federation of Expellees, an organization representing Germans expelled from eastern Europe after World War II, told the German news magazine Der Spiegel, 'That would cost money that we don't have.' The expellees, who sought for decades to recover their lost property, were regularly accused by communist governments of... |
Is the World Ready for German Victimhood?
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| Immediately after World War II, millions of Germans were expelled from Poland and Czechoslovakia. And the wounds are still open today. Now, a preliminary agreement by the new coalition may pour salt on them. Poland is warily observing events in Berlin. |
INTERVIEW WITH STEINBACH - "Polish-German Relations can't get any worse"
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| The president of the Federation of Expellees, Erika Steinbach, is hoping for an improvement in relations between Berlin and Warsaw. But this is not stopping her from insisting on setting up a Center Against Expulsion in Berlin -- despite strong objections from Poland. |
Is the World Ready for German Victimhood?
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| Is the World Ready for German Victimhood? By Charles Hawley Immediately after World War II, millions of Germans were expelled from Poland and Czechoslovakia. And the wounds are still open today. Now, a preliminary agreement by the new coalition may pour salt on them. Poland is warily observing events in Berlin. The bulk of the exodus began soon after the guns of World War II went quiet as millions of Germans suddenly found their homes were now on the wrong side of the border. They were forced to abandon houses and property and trudge across the newly created frontier into... |
Germans file suit against Poland over wartime compensation
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| Germans file suit against Poland over wartime compensation 3 August 2004 LEVERKUSEN - A hardline leader of ethnic Germans expelled from Poland at the end of the Second World War said Tuesday his group would haul Poland before the European courts this year. Rudi Pawelka, the chairman of Preussische Treuhand, said the suits would demand restitution of confiscated homes and farms. Preussische Treuhand is a private company with expellees as shareholders. Its capital is to be spent on legal fees, pursuing claims that many legal experts say have almost no chance of success and which are to be opposed by... |
Guarded support for Gerhard Schroeder's stance on compensation claims
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| Guarded support for Gerhard Schroeder's stance on compensation claims From Poland A.M. A majority of Polish politicians were satisfied by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's declaration not to support compensation claims by Germans expelled from Poland after WWII. However, some politicians would have liked to see a gesture of the kind made by Willy Brandt who knelt in front of the Ghetto Heroes Monument when he visited the capital 34 years ago. On the other hand chairman of the Expelled Association Erika Steinbach criticized Shroeder for not taking into account the feelings of his nation. Donald Tusk from the Civic Platform... |
Poles' and Germans' new clash over WWII
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:37:40 PM
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| Poles' and Germans' new clash over WWII By Hilary Davies in Warsaw 25 July 2004 More than half a century on from the Second World War, the Poles and the Germans have reopened an old rift. Issues left festering ever since central Europe was cut off from the West after 1945 have sprung into life on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. German politician Erika Steinbach's decision to hold a "sympathetic" service in Berlin to commemorate the 1944 uprising against the Nazis, without inviting any surviving Polish combatants, has many in Poland fuming. "Simply disgusting", "bad-mannered... |
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