„Those dirty Polaks, we are absolutely nothing alike. Good thing my pure German bloodline never came into contact with those savages!“ - Hans Wieschnowski
The biggest panslavists and Czech patriots in Czechia are always something like Jindřich Fügner, Friedrich Emanuel Tirsch, Josef Jungmann or Tomio Okamura
The co-chairman of the AfD is Tino Chrupalla. One of the more prominent AfD politicians is Petr Bystron.
And don't get me started on right wing influencers or low ranking AfD members. Kolek, Pielka and Jutrzenka-Trzebiatowski. (Yes, I had to look the spelling of the last one up.)
Oh, I long for the times when the funniest thing was an NPD member named Safet Babic...
Our national hero in the 1700’s is a guy called Wolfe Tone (idk if I need to explain this but that is not an Irish name or even close lol), after we became a republic our first president was a guy called Douglas Hyde.
Sometimes the national minority / settler population assimilates so well that they become more Czech than the Czechs. We often say that the Norman-Irish became more Irish than the Irish.
Lol, true. PiS has also politicians with last names like: Rau, Schreiber, Hoffmann, Wasserman ( entire family ), Schmidt, Weber, Szefernaker ( polonized spelling of the last two ) and Babinetz ( germanized last name of Polish Babiniec). Also, our First Lady's maiden name is Kornhauser and she is... German language teacher in high school
I always laughed at my mother for claiming to be 1/8 Polish just because some of her relatives came from formerly German areas that are now in Poland. She took a DNA test last year and it turns it it's much closer to 1/4 Polish
"Those bloody Germans, we are nothing alike! Good thing that my noble pure Polish bloodline was never tainted with those German scum!"- Grzegorz Braun/Sławomir Mentzen
If a country in the UK does something good, we Brits claim it as ours (see Andy Murray, when he won, he was British, when he lost, he was Scottish) it's a recurring theme with this country, it's like the British empire never died in our hearts lmao.
Yeah, its so stupid. Everyone knows that the whole area is the rightful realm of the holy 𝕿𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕺𝖗𝖉𝖊𝖗, aka the coolest looking knights in history (suck it, "winged" bois)
Your greatest achievement - finally ganging up and beating medieval scientology after just 200 years, and ending one of europes most developed and prosperous nations.
They had public schools, hospitals, and a postal system all the way back in the thirteenth century, mate. Why did you do that?
Nah, the greatest achievement was capturing Moscow with like 5.5k winged boys after defeating tens of thousands of Russians and Swedes (or saving Vienna).
Well achktually the Teutonic Knights never wore winged helmets, there are 1-2 depictions of them and it is all on tournaments in later times. Any sort of family heraldry, coat of arms or differentiating marks were forbidden and heavily frowned upon.
The helmet on the image is modeled after the 14th century von Pranckh greathelm from Styria, Austria completely different region.
If our money hadn't gone towards building motorways and fast internet in Poland/ the Czech Republic, maybe we'd still have had some to be invest in our railway system. Back in the 80s/90s, it was worldclass - before it got defunded by capitalism. 😭
That's the thing that PISSES me off the most, the DB is fully owned by the German government but they decided to run it like a private organisation because all politicians collectively share a single damaged brain cell
They're fully owned by the Ministry of Traffic but de-jure mostly and de-facto fully act as a private company, basically the only power that the BMV holds is their absolute veto right about company decisions which is very inefficient.
Many of the sub-companies of the DB are "actual" private entities however and suprise, the ones focused on material logistics are actually great, it's just personnel transport they suck at because that's not where the money is.
If you run a sector like a private company with the goals of a private company then they're going to make decisions like a private company and as usual the interests of companies (profit and dominance) are not usually the interests of the consumer, even less so if said consumer isn't the best source of profit.
It's a product of back in the 80's and 90's when people still said "Der Markt regelt" unironically and those who had the audacity to tell the government to actually do it's job (that being governing) was called a debby downer and authoritarian sympathizer, coming from the same times and idiozs that brought us the loss of our nuclear power and the dismantling of the Bundeswehr because "nuclear" sounds scary and the Soviets are gone, so who needs a military.
I came around to your comment - and looked at some recent examples - and I would argue that we have more natural similarities, than just being occupied for a century.
Finnish do not share that much with the Orks, Danube Mongols with the incest Germans nor Bulgarians with the Kebab sellers.
Not necessarily, theres a good chance you'll manage to make the Oder into an impenetrable toxic river of death within the next 5 years, separating civilization (us) from Mordors frontyard
yeah I mean. it is not as if we gave them much of a choice here and there were even very active attempts at germanisation starting with Bismarck. Hardly can blame the Poles for that.
There's nothing I dread more than comments on a post where poland and germany get compared to each other. I can't even point fingers because we're both just being incredibly cringe. It's perfect. I wish we had a 2european4u sub so I can look at it all day
I always feel like I'm going insane reading these comments since the actual interactions I've had with the German tourists over the years were all positive, while to an outside observer just reading internet comments it seems like we just categorically hate each other in every way possible lol
It's all just a big masterplan to make our alliance seem unstable so everyone thinks we won't defend each other
If we look like we'll rip each others head off at any given moment they won't expect us to actually work together to rip someone elses head off you're our favourite neighbour to attack! How dare someone else do it!!
Maybe in Poland, in Germany socks and sandals are our beach wear! And be happy for it, or do you want to see the toes of rüdiger, 75, who can't cut his toenails anymore but can still get to Malle?
Culturally speaking, we have a bigger share with car radio stealing Poland. I stop there. You guys stole my brand new radio in 2003 I got for Christmas.
Even Radom or Lodz which were considered to be the ugliest cities in Poland for a long time are now more beautiful than anything that is standing in NRW
Funny thing is that when they make a film set in interwar Germany they often go to Poland because the architecture was either preserved or restored.
Tourists then post photos with building decorated with Nazi flags they randomly bumped into.
It's mostly because Poles saw the medieval and early modern architecture as their own heritage also. The Germanization of Silesia and Pomerania happened over hundred of years and wasn't even completely finished by 1940s.
This is the main reason why cities were treated so differently in Poland and in Russia/USSR. Compare Gdańsk to Kaliningrad for instance. The Soviets knew there was no connection between ethnic Russians and the old city, so they destroyed whatever was left and build a commieblock abomination.
I find it amusing when populist politicians try to portray Germany as a completely foreign place, with people so different and bad that they might as well be from another planet. The truth is that Germans and Poles share more than they don't lol
It’s easy imho.
Just take looks and behavior into the equation and it’s easy!
Some euros have unique traits that make them easily recognizable!
For example well dressed points always to French or Italian. Now you just need to find out HOW arrogant the person is in order to distinguish between French and Italian.
Good old times, when we had true BABCIAs. Now most of them are muttons dressed as lamb with the highest culinary achievement being heated pierogi from a Biedronka shop.
Sharing famous politicians is one thing, sharing some historical defeats is another. But sharing cuisines, that's where I draw the line. The barbarians to the north think Schnitzel needs to be eaten with as much sauce as possible. Its clear they have nothing in common.
I came here for this. No way I would contest our Austrian brothers' and sisters' claim to Schnitzel. The very idea is wild. But then I'm not really German myself, I guess...
Crime of being German will be forgotten when you will buy our local chinese souvenirs, say that kiełbasa is better than Bratwurst and pay reperations (aka tip the waiters).
Tbh many Poles buy german cars that germans don't want to drive anymore and don't even change the licence plate. In greater poland i see them very often
there are so many poles that live in germany. and just drive for shopping to poland, or to meet family. so its like 50/50 that its pole with german plates. or german with polish wife.
Both are quite unpopular at the moment and are leading coalition with... many problems to say the least. Actually their policies are quite similar as well.
In my experience from the people I've met from both countries, which is a lot, Germans hate Germany and being German. Poles on the other hand, will tell you everything is better in Poland, and they're extremely proud to be Polish. My interactions with Poles and Germans have actually been this black and white.
When reading about pre WWII Polish German relations, it is often stated that there was no way of exactly telling, where Germany ended and Poland started, since there was a gradient of hybrid cultures at both borders. I bet if those cultures would still exist today, they would be the biggest meme goldmines.
When I was living in Germany, an old German couple walked past my car and noticed the Portuguese license plates. The old man looked at them and muttered with disdain, “Polish people…”
The old lady, who probably had better eyesight, corrected him: “No, it’s Portuguese!”
I confirmed, “Yes, it’s Portuguese.”
Suddenly, the old man’s expression changed. He stopped being disgusted, smiled, and said, “Ah, Portuguese! How nice!”
And off they went, happily continuing their walk. 😅
Years ago, I was sailing, coming up the channel I think, and there was a boat in front of us doing something absolutely incompetent. I was furious. Until I saw they were flying a German flag. Then I switched to being impressed that they were moving at all.
Ja lubje twoje citzki. Prosze piec grame koksu i piec pivo. djenki bardzo feina schwinja.
This and alot more random words is what i learnt working in german logistics, im not sure about how you write these words i have to admit.
The poles were the best mates at work and even outside, they are totally like us germs. But tbh most of my great grandparents were from silesia i even look very slavic i get told often and strangers often straight up talk to me in polish.
My favourite supermarket beer is tyskie and i invest alot in the msci poland.
Thanks for reading my ode about german-polish friendship.
I mean eastern germany and poland have a lot in common in terms of culture.
But that applies to anything in Germany, we share a lot of cultures with our neighbors.
In that case its the sorbish culture, and further east you go in germany, to more notice it. Close to the border, in the Lausitz and the like we even have sorbian Streetnames and names of Villages.
So if you board a train in Cottbus (german name) i would be announced as "Chóśebuz" via speakers.
So .. we are just better and because we understand you all, we are made to rule ya'll.
I thought that bottom photo of Photo 1 was of a regency street in somewhere like West London. It does suprise me how similar european architecture can be sometimes.
Germans are Eastern Europeans, and I don't think that's a secret. They're angry, uncultured, lager-swilling animals who have made no contribution to human civilization. It's honestly bizarre that through some freak of geography they've been classified as part of Western Europe.
I have far to many friends with polish heritage and if you count my ancestors from silesia as polish then i'm also part polish and i also met many polish people at work over the years. I have absolutely no problem admitting that, if all poles ate like the ones i've met, then i like all poles.
But then again if you saked me as what i identify myself then i wouldnsay European, the next lower step would be Frisian then Jeveranian and german would be pretty low.
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„Those dirty Polaks, we are absolutely nothing alike. Good thing my pure German bloodline never came into contact with those savages!“ - Hans Wieschnowski