During the celebration of the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, Dr. Karol Nawrocki, president-elect, said that German genocide policy was not a production of Nazism, but a continuation of the judaic policy of the Reich and Prussia. specified statements can only consequence from the deep ignorance of the past of Prussia and the Second Reich.
Of course, it is not the responsibility of Dr. Nawrocki, who graduated from historical studies in the Bologna system. The Bologna strategy caused past to be taught in universities for 3 years and as before by 5. The effects are deplorable, not only in the case of Dr Nawrocki, but besides in the case of another victims of the Bologna system. As it was with the past of Prussia and the Second Reich, I will remind you briefly. There was no nationalism in Prussia due to the fact that there was no Prussian nation. Prusai concerning Poles only wanted them to be faithful subjects of the king of Prussia. I don't think they thought about Poles in the kingdom.
The situation changed erstwhile the Second Reich was established. German nationalism emerged and the Germanization of Poles in the Prussian partition began. But here's an crucial remark. In the Prussian election, it was consistently, plannedly, with large effort and large effort of means that Polishness was destroyed and vaccinated, but it was always done by law, for maintaining forms: the Polish citizen knew what he expected, why he had to surrender, and why he could resist. Roman Dmowski has already pointed out this. In addition, as German-Russian relations deteriorated, the interest in the Reich authorities in the Polish issue (Polenfrage) in the Russian partition grew. There was a question of building a Polish buffer state (Pufferstaat), which was to be anti-Russian and powerfully related to Germany. The plan of Mitteleuropa was then integrated into the Pufferstaat.
There was no discussion of the extermination of full nations. This is the 3rd Reich. I want Dr. Nawrocki could understand. False past is simply a master of false politics, as Józef Szujski wrote about in the 19th century. Without knowing the German concepts Dr. Nawrocki will not realize the current policy Germany is dangerous towards Poland. The depiction of Germans as eternal and bloody Nazis is simply a way to nowhere. The difference between the 2nd and 3rd Reichs perfectly reflects the message of the erstwhile German emperor and King Wilhelm II of Prussia. Well, in 1938 after Crystal Night (Kristallnacht) he said: “For the first time I am ashamed that I am German.”
I do not deny the Germans' desire to make east Europe dependent, but this is not the same as the extermination of the people surviving there and Dr. Nawrocki does not realize it. The claim that the Second Reich is simply a continuation of the crucifixion is simply a crucial simplification. Moving the mediate Ages to modern times. specified a comparison looks good propaganda, but not much has to do with reality. It is adequate to remind that Protestant princely Prussia arose in opposition to the spiritual state and the Catholic order in the Evangelical Prussian state was not very popular. William II began to mention to the heritage of the Teutonic Order, but it was propaganda. The Teutonic Knights did not advance the extermination of conquered tribes, but their assimilation. Prusai in Prussia were not murdered, but Germanized, as were Mazuri. I remind you that the first Duke of Albrecht Hohenzollern published a Bible in Prussia in both Polish and Prussian. And if so, then the Prusai were inactive alive. In conclusion, there is simply a fundamental difference between addiction and extermination.
Jacek Marczyński
Photo X profile of Karol Nawrocki
