Comments by "PeterC" (@peterc4082) on "" video.

  1. Warsaw is not as glamorous as London, Berlin or Paris. But at least we resisted these highly civilized, industrious and organised guys who came over in '39 and tried to 'improve us'.
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  2. Slavonic origin names mean little. There was much intermarriage between Poles and Germans, and Poles and French and French and Germans. Our foreign minister in 39 was a guy called Beck. That's not even a Polish surname. A big SS thug in WW2 was called Kaminski.
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  3. At 10:08 they are so happy, these girls. But when their brothers and husbands died on the Eastern Front, the mood changed. The farm where my Polish grandmother was taken as a slave labourer, was run by a bauer who later lost his two sons in Stalingrad. They were decent people though. My father was born in Austria. His father was an ANZAC POW who was later shot by the Germans after he said something bad about Hi1ler.
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  4. They were much more courteous to the French, Belgians and Dutch. They didn't like the Jews and after them, they didn't like us Poles. But since Polish jokes are not uncommon in the US, maybe they knew something about us, Poles. Oh well. At the end, we made it. And despite Stalin too. And maybe now, despite Putin. Polish jokes are still common in Germany.
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  5.  @HistoryonYouTube  Yes, maybe but a Germanic name nethertheless. The famous Polish chocolatier Wedel who sided with the Poles was of German origin.
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  6.  @HistoryonYouTube  Some others: Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer, Ignacy Boerner, Władysław Anders, Jan Schuch.
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