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Old March 21st, 2018 #1
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Default Could Britain be in line for BILLIONS in WW2 compensation from Germany?

Could Britain be in line for BILLIONS in WW2 compensation from Germany?

BRITAIN should follow Poland's lead and pursue Germany for billions of pounds in reparations for the destruction caused during World War Two, a Tory MP has claimed.

Daniel Kawczynski is a long-term campaigner for the Germans to make a sizeable contribution towards the cost of rebuilding Poland following the devastating conflict, which experts estimate would amount to £850billion in modern terms.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...2-compensation
 
Old March 21st, 2018 #2
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--- Polish Atrocities Against the German Minority ---
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/polish_atrocities.htm

General Otto Remer Interview, Conducted by Stephanie Schoeman, for Institute for Historical Review

Q: What is your view of the Polish Corridor crisis and the outbreak of the war in 1939?

A: In September 1944, when I was commander of the guard unit at Hitler's headquarters, I spoke with Hitler during a walk together outside. I asked him: "My Fuhrer, may I speak frankly with you for a moment?" "Of course," he replied. I then asked him: "Why did you really attack Poland? Couldn't you have been more patient?"

Hitler had only asked for an extra-territorial highway and rail line across Polish territory, and he wanted the return of Danzig to the Reich. These were really very modest demands. With a bit more patience, couldn't he have obtained these, in much the same way that Austria and the Sudetenland had been united with the Reich?
And Hitler replied:

"You are mistaken. I knew as early as March 1939 that Roosevelt had determined to bring about a world war, and I knew that the British were cooperating in this, and that Churchill was involved. God knows that I certainly did not want a world war. That's why I sought to solve the Polish problem in my own way with a kind of punishment expedition, without a declaration of war. After all, there had been thousands of murders of ethnic Germans and 1.2 million ethnic German refugees. What should I have done? I had to act. And for that reason, four weeks after this campaign, I made the most generous offer of peace that any victorious leader could ever have made. Unfortunately, it wasn't successful.

And then he said: "If I had not acted as I did with regard to the Polish question, to prevent a second world war, by the end of 1942 at the latest we would have experienced what we are now experiencing in 1944." That's what he said.

--- Uniting Danzig with Germany: Tuesday, September 19, 1939 ---
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/HTML-do...ing_Danzig.htm
Speech By Adolf Hitler

"I tried to find ways and means for a bearable solution of this problem also. These endeavors I submitted in the form of verbal proposals to the former Polish rulers. With these proposals you are all familiar; they were more than reasonable. I attempted to arrive at an understanding doing justice to our desire to re-establish a connection between East Prussia and the Reich, and the desire of the Poles to retain access to the sea. Above all, I tried to find a synthesis between the German character of the city of Danzig and its firm resolve to return to the German Reich, on the one hand, and the economic demands of the Poles, on the other. I consider myself justified in saying that at that time I was more than modest. There were moments when I reflected and asked myself over and over again whether before my own people I could take the responsibility of submitting such proposals for a solution to the Polish Government. My only reason for doing so was that I was anxious to spare both the German and the Polish peoples the sufferings resulting from another conflict.

During the course of this spring I have again repeated this offer in the most concrete form.

Danzig was to return to the Reich. An exterritorial road was to be built to East Prussia—at our expense of course. In return Poland was to receive the most extensive Free Port rights, and similar exterritorial access. I, on the other hand, on top of that, was prepared to guarantee the existing frontiers, hardly bearable as they were, and finally to let Poland participate in guaranteeing the safety of Slovakia. I cannot imagine what a state of mind the Polish Government was in when it rejected these proposals. I do know, however, that untold millions of Germans gave a sigh of relief because they were of the opinion that in making those proposals I had gone too far.

Poland's reply was to order the first mobilization, immediately followed by ferocious terrorism. My request to the then Polish Foreign Minister to visit me in Berlin in order to discuss this question with me once more was rejected. Instead of coming to Berlin, he went to London!"

- The Reorganization of the German East -
http://research.calvin.edu/german-pr...e/textbk02.htm

"Peacefully and without bloodshed, the Führer had remedied a large part of the injustice of Versailles. But it proved impossible to work things out peacefully with Poland. Poland felt it had the support of England and France, and was not willing to negotiate a settlement of the Danzig Corridor question. In the war forced upon us, Poland was defeated in an 18-day campaign. It was completely dissolved, after about 60,000 ethnic Germans had fallen victim to Polish incitement and murder. Danzig was freed and returned with West Prussia to the German state. Posen too again became part of the German Reich. It became the Gau Wartheland after the incorporation of neighboring areas with a Germanic population. Germans will here establish order in place of the “Polish economy.” The Führer ordered the resettlement of ethnic Germans from the Baltic areas, the Cholm-Lublin district, and from Wolhynien, Galicia, Buchenland, Bessarabia, Dobrudscha, and Lithuania. These ethnic Germans in the Wartegau and in Danzig-West Prussia will bring the land to new prosperity, and form a living wall to protect the German east. The Poles in these areas were resettled to other remaining Polish districts, and the Russians brought their citizens back from the German districts. As a result, the borders between Germanic and Slavic regions will in the future be clear."

Canberra Times, 1939
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Germany's 16 Point Demands
The Berlin radio announced tonight that the latest German reply to Britain contains 16 points:


(1) Danzig, on account of its purely German character and the unanimous will of its population shall return to the Reich unconditionally and forthwith.

(2) The Corridor itself shall decide whether it desires to belong to Germany or Poland, for which purpose a plebiscite shall be held.

(3) Those entitled to vote on the plebiscite will be all Germans and Poles who have been resident in the Corridor since January 1, 1939, or have been born there. All Germans expelled from the Corridor or forced to leave will return in order to vote.

(4) In order to guarantee the objective of the voting an international commission will be constituted, similar to that in the Saar plebiscite, and will consist of representatives of Italy, the Soviet, France and Britain. The commission will exercise sovereign rights in the territory. Polish police, military and other authorities must leave the Corridor at the shortest possible notice, except Gydnia, which unconditionally remains Polish. The exact German and Polish frontier of Gdynia and Germany must be determined by an agreement between Berlin and Warsaw.

(5) The plebiscite shall not be held for a year.

(6) In order to maintain communication between Germany and East Prussia before and during the plebiscite, Germany will be granted a rail-road and motor-road across the Corridor for her exclusive use.

(7) The plebiscite will be decided by a simple majority.

(8) In order to guarantee the safety of traffic between Germany and East Prussia in the case of a plebiscite resulting in the partition of the Corridor, special motor roads and rail roads shall be granted, which will not embrace a strip of territory wider than one kilometre. This strip to be declared an extra-territorial zone.

(9) If the plebiscite decides that the Corridor remain Polish, Germany is prepared to carry out an exchange of population.

(10) Special privileges sought by Poland in Danzig will be laid down in a manner analogous to German privileges in Gdynia.

(11) In order to obviate all feeling of insecurity on the part of the population, both Gdynia and Danzig will be declared mere "centres of trade," which will not be fortified. The peninsular of Helx will, in any case, be demilitarised.

(12) For the settlement of possible complaints of the German and Polish minorities, both the contracting parties agree that these complaints should be submitted to an international commission, which will investigate each case on its merits.

(13) Germany and Poland neutrally agree to repair and recompense all economic damages caused by their respective minorities since 1918.

(14) Minorities remaining in either country at the close of the plebiscite will, by mutual agreement, be exempted from military service and enjoy full social and cultural freedom.

(15) In the event of the acceptance of these proposals, Germany and Poland declare themselves ready to order and carry out the immediate demobilisation of the respective armies.

(16) All further measures becoming necessary will be laid down through mutual agreement between Germany and Poland.

The German-proposals were made subject to a time-limit which expired at midnight on August 30. An essential condition was that a Polish plenipotentiary should be able to reach agreement and come to Berlin on August 30.
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PRELUDE TO WAR
German Statement.
LONDON, Friday.

An official German announcement accompanying the sixteen point demands on Poland stated:

"In a Note on August 28, Britain declared that she was ready to offer her good offices for direct German and Polish negotiations. Britain left no doubt that she recognised the necessity for urgent action, in view of the "continual incidents" and the general European tension.

"Germany replied, on August 29, that despite skepticism in connection with Poland's willingness to achieve a settlement, she was willing in the interests of peace to accept the British suggestion. Germany added that quick action was necessary in order to avoid the danger of catastrophe. Therefore, she declared that she was willing to receive, until the evening of August 30, a Polish delegate, provided he had full powers to negotiate and conclude an agreement.

Furthermore, Germany was willing pending the arrival of the delegate, to inform Britain of the basis on which she was willing to negotiate.

Instead of being informed of the arrival of the delegate, Germany first received as a reply to her willingness to negotiate, the news of the Polish mobilisation... Then, not before August 31, a general British assurance of willingness to co-operate to effect negotiations.

Germany cannot be expected to ceaselessly express willingness to negotiate or even prepare for negotiations, while Poland temporises with subterfuges and futile statements."
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Original article can be found at the National Library of Australia, HERE:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/a...510902/664134#


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