--- Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at dodo.com.au> wrote:
>Silesia was once part of Germany. It's now part of
>Poland. Silesian Germans should not have any legal
>entitlement to return to that part of Poland (whether
>they actually do or not under international law is
not
>clear to me).
Of course they should. Why on earth would you insist that they should not be entitled to return to their home?
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Because they're German. This is part of that Collective Guilt notion. Same reason that if an Israeli planted a bomb in a maternity ward in Heidelberg, the bomb squad would probably get accused of anti-Semitism. ;)
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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