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Rudi Pawelka - summary

I refactored the discussion to help in understanding the problem. If you think I omitted any serious proposal or argument, please add it to the section #Other proposals. New arguments are welcome. I will try to incorporate to the Analysis sections all the arguments from the Discussion sections below. You can do it yourself, but please write arguments as short, one sentence assertions; longer explanations may be referred to by links to edits. Alx-pl D 23:43, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Informations to be included

Reversal of war guilt

Summary

Rudi Pawelka in his speech on June, 3rd 2005 in Nuremberg blamed the outburst of WW2 on the acts of aggression Poland commited in years 1918-1938.

Analysis
  • Problem 1 Should this be included?
    • For: It spreads black legend that Poland is guilty for WW2.
    • Against: Rudi Pawelka is popular in very narrow circles of the German society [1].
    • For: However, his meetings are visited by prominent CSU politicians [2]
    • Against: But all his demands are criticized by the major German politicians ([3] for Schröder, [4] for Merkel), even Erika Steinbach distances herself from him [5].
    • For: Still, his speeches are mentioned and commented in respectable Polish media, so it is not marginal [6] [7].
    • Against: ?
    • For: ?
  • Problem 2 This may be a fact or an interpretation. Is it a fact?
    • For: It is mentioned in Gazeta Wyborcza [8] and in Wirtualna Polska [9] and in Polska Agencja Prasowa [10] notices.
    • Against: These sources are all Polish and the most that is stated is (in the Wirtualna Polska source) that he protested against pushing all the blame for WW2 on Third Reich.
    • For: The Polish sources are not worse than any others.
    • Against: They are not worse, but they can be suspected to provide Polish POV, so the statement should contain according to the Polish media. Besides, all these sources are media, not a scientific research.
    • For: ?
    • Against: ?
Discussion
Plaese, add here any comments you think are relevant

Comparison Pawelka-Hitler

Summary

The Nuremberg speech by Pawelka is very similar to some speeches by Adolf Hitler. Here are three comparisons [11] [12] [13].

Analysis
  • Problem 1 Is this comparison to the point?
    • For: It gives a certain evidence that Pawelka spreads Polish black legend.
    • Against: ?
    • For: ?
  • Problem 2 Is it an original research?
    • For: This comparison is just an analysis of Pawelka's speech and there is no similar comparison in the known sources.
    • Against: ?
    • For: ?
Discussion
Plaese, add here any comments you think are relevant

Hostility by eviction

Summary

The one-sided action of Preußische Treuhand to evict the property from before WW2 is considered hostile in Poland as it can result in expropriation of Poles who were forced to exile from what were eastern territories of Poland before WW2. [14]

Analysis
  • Problem 1 Is it not to the point?
    • For: It is more about a revisionist organisation.
    • Against: The definition of anti-Polonism says that it is hostility and this is an example of a hostile movement.
    • For: ?
    • Against: ?
Discussion
Plaese, add here any comments you think are relevant

Other proposals

Please, add here a new proposals for content to be included
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Proposed formulations

The original one

Poland is accused by some groups of having caused World War II. Rudi Pawelka the president of the Preußische Treuhand and the Territorial Association of Silesia in his speech made in Nuremberg blamed the outburst of the war on, in his opinion, acts of aggression committed by Poles during the period 1918-1938.

Discussion

Proposal by SylwiaS

Polish Press Agency reported that Rudi Pawelka the president of the Preußische Treuhand and the Territorial Association of Silesia in his speech made during the society's congress in Nuremberg blamed the outburst of the World War II on, in his opinion, acts of aggression committed by Poles during the period 1918-1938.

Discussion

Proposal by Alx-pl

The Preußische Treuhand want to restitute whenever possible the property that was in German hands before the World War II. To this end, they want to use human rights in the European and Polish courts [15]. This together with allusions of Rudi Pawelka, the leader of the Preußische Treuhand, concerning the guilt for the start of the World War II [16] are recognised by major Polish newspapers as anti-Polish [17], [18], as such a solution would result in humiliation of many Polish citizens.

Discussion

Proposal by NightBeAsT

"Sometimes anti-polonistic sentiment is suspected of people who discriminate against Poles and express themselves very negatively and/or aggressively about the country — for example Rudi Pawelka, long term policeman, lower-tier CDU politician, President of the small organisation Preußische Treuhand and the Territorial Association of Silesia, caused a shock in Poland after he and the Preußische Treuhand tried to initiate legal proceedings against the expulsion of Germans after World War II from area that belonged to Germany even before World War II. After being disapproved by the Federation of Expellees, the Government of Germany and the CDU/CSU team of the German parliament that decides for the CDU/CSU on questions concerning "exiles and refugees"[19], and on being dismissed by the Polish government he said with that verdict Poland was not a state under the law [20] and that the dismissal was not based on European spirit but Polish nationalism[21]. By demanding that German exiles should get their property back or money of the same value and his negative rhetoric against Poland, he hurt Polish-German relations, opened up old sores caused by atrocities by the Third Reich against Poland, argued with indifference to Poles whose property he wants to be given to the exiles and insulted Poles."


Discussion

Is anything wrong with this formulation? Alx-pl D 22:19, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

The formulation and proposal are wrong.They don't include mention that Pawelka called Polish uprising against German persecution Polish aggression, blamed Poland for WW2, compered Poland to a thief and his speech is similar to Hitler's propaganda speech.
Furthermore the statement :
President of the small organisation Preußische Treuhand and the Territorial Association of Silesia, caused a shock in Poland after he and the Preußische Treuhand tried to initiate legal proceedings against the expulsion of Germans after World War II
Is wrong.No schock was happening in Poland at all, since German revisionists have been known in Poland since a long time (Hubka for example).The reasons for publication of Pawelka's antipolish presentation were his other claims.The "old sores" is inccorrect since such claims have been made since the end of war.So Pawelka's speech in this regard isn't anything new.What is new is the fact that German organisations are starting to repeat Nazi propaganda(Polish aggression)-and that is what was concentrated on by Polish media.
The territorial and material demands of German organisation aren't anything new, so it isn't neccessery to concentrate on them in regards to Pawelka's speech. Molobo

A detailed answer:

  • called Polish uprising against German persecution Polish aggression - this can be included, please propose a formulation
  • blamed Poland for WW2 - it is your interpretation which is not directly supported by any of the sources
  • compered Poland to a thief - I did not catch the point in which he did it, can you provide a sentence(s) in which he did it?
  • similar to Hitler's propaganda speech - this is discussed above, can you give a new arguments?
  • No schock was happening in Poland at all - we can of course use a different wording, for instance hot reaction, significant reaction or anything similar.
  • The "old sores" is inccorrect - since the Two Plus Four Treaty (1990) the problems concerning the Polish-German border were fixed, of course it is a matter of discussion of whether 15 years means old.
  • are starting to repeat Nazi propaganda - this was not stated explicitely anywhere, so it can be regarded as original research, especially as this is a very delicate topic.
  • The territorial and material demands of German organisation aren't anything new - yes, they aren't but this means they are well understood and documented, and it is easier to provide a many-sided description; moreover, this also has been discussed above.

I think the discussion brought many new threads and your answer above conveys more content that the original description in the article. I'd like to see your own version of the text to be put into the article now. Alx-pl D 19:13, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Sources

On Nurember speech

On Preußische Treuhand in general

Other sources

  • [36] - a news from TVP on a report from Grupa Kopernika concerning the impact of Pawelka (in Polish).
  • [37] - Gazeta Wyborcza on a visit of Angela Merkel in Poland (in Polish).

Translations

Gazeta Wyborcza article on Nuremberg speech by Pawelka

The source is [38].

The head of the Territorial Association of Silesia blames Poland for discrimination of Germans

Poland is not a law abiding state according to Territorial Association of Silesia since Poland discriminate against German minority and German emigrants. Poland refuse also square up the responsibility for the expulsions after World War II - the head of the assotiation, Rudi Pawelka, contends.

"It is not allowable that people in Poland are discriminated against their origin under the roof of European values system," Pawelka said in his speech on a congress of his association on Sunday in Nuremberg. According to him, anti-German post-war decrees together with "the worst national minority act in EU" are still applied to the German minority and courts deny people who leaved to Germany in the seventies the return of their real estates even if their names are still in land registers. "This kind of judicature does not comply with the European law," Pawelka said. "Poland is not a law abiding country if it still applies the old comunist lawlessness!"

Pawelka is a co-founder and the head of the board of the trustees in Preußische Treuhand the goal of which is to reclaim the real estate of Germans who were expelled from Poland after 1945. The canvasser charged Poles with nationalism and the failure in settling of the felonies commited in connection with the expulsions. "The evasion of confrontation with the commited lawlessness, which Poland presents, is not the proper way to good future. When we ask about something we always encounter not the european spirit but the nationalism," pronounced Pawelka. According to him, Poles do not admit the plunder after the war, and the sufferings of 2,4 mln Germans in Poland before 1939 together with Polish agressions after the World War I (the war with Russia, the march in Upper Silesia and the annexation of Zaolsie in 1938) are commonly passed over. Yet all these events together with the "Versaille dictat" in 1919 belong, according to Pawelka, to the history of WW2 which did not begin in 1939 or 1933, but earlier. Pawelka stressed that "he was deeply ashamed with what the Nazi state did", but he wants others not to hide their crimes behind the criems of Germans.

The head of bawarian Ministry of Internal Affairs Günter Beckstein (CSU), who was a guest of Silesians' congress, said that the consciousness of German sufferings does not mean the relativisation of the German guilt. "That is why expulsion of Silesians from their historical homeland is a crime against humanity and a serious lawlessness," he said. He also supported a quick erection of the Center against Expulsions in Berlin.

New proposal by Molobo

I can only state that the way the proposal is proposed and structured ruins all the efforts to achieve consensus. Alx-pl D 08:56, 14 September 2005 (UTC) Alx so far I haven't seen any attempts to reach any consensus, we had certain posters that tried to erase the article and blame Polish people for prejudices against Germans, and were discovered to be German nationalists. --Molobo 10:13, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

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