Birdud @electriBird

The Forgotten Victims: How Poland Was Erased from World War II Memory: Most Germans today still have limited knowledge of the atrocities committed against the Polish people during World War II. In responses to my posts over the years, I have frequently encountered a distorted understanding of Poland’s wartime experience, with some even implying that Poles bore responsibility for their own suffering or that they were primarily collaborators rather than victims. The Holocaust is rightly one of the best known events in modern history. Throughout the United States, Holocaust museums educate millions of visitors, and many states require Holocaust education in public schools. As a former educator, I ensured that my students also learned about the fate of the Polish people under German occupation because understanding the war requires remembering all of its major victims. Poland endured one of the most devastating occupations of any nation. It was attacked by both Germany and the Soviet Union, subjected to mass executions, deportations, forced labor, cultural destruction, and the systematic elimination of its political, religious, and intellectual leadership. Yet despite these immense losses, Polish victims remain far less visible in public memory than many other groups persecuted during the war. This absence appears repeatedly in museums, memorials, educational materials, and public commemorations. I have encountered numerous websites and memorials that scarcely mention Polish victims, even at places such as Dachau, where Poles were among the principal prisoner groups. In a statement marking the anniversary of Auschwitz in 2020, Nancy Pelosi referred to Jewish victims, Roma, LGBTQ individuals, and people with disabilities, yet omitted Polish victims, even though ethnic Poles were the second largest group imprisoned and killed at Auschwitz after Jews. The historian Gilad Margalit documents how this selective remembrance developed in his book Guilt, Suffering, and Memory: Germany Remembers Its Dead of World War II. He describes how German President Richard von Weizsäcker originally included explicit references to Polish and Soviet victims in a speech for the People’s Day of Mourning. However, when the speech was condensed for a commemorative plaque, those references disappeared. As Margalit notes, “The explicit reference to Soviet and Polish victims… was eliminated.” He further argues that the suffering of Soviet and other Slavic victims, whose losses exceeded those of all other victim groups combined, never entered German public consciousness in the same way as the suffering of other victim groups. Even the German bombardment of Warsaw in 1939 received comparatively little attention within Germany’s landscape of remembrance. Understanding this process of selective memory helps explain a troubling development in modern historical discourse. A nation that suffered invasion, occupation, genocide, and immense civilian losses has too often been pushed to the margins of public memory. In some discussions, the victims themselves have even been portrayed as collaborators, despite the overwhelming historical record demonstrating the catastrophic suffering inflicted upon Poland by both Germany and the Soviet Union. Remembering the Holocaust should never come at the expense of remembering other victims. Honoring Jewish suffering and acknowledging the immense suffering of the Polish people are not competing truths. Together they present a fuller and more accurate understanding of one of history’s darkest chapters. Source: Guilt, Suffering, and Memory: Germany Remembers Its Dead of World War II (Indiana University Press, 2010). Photo: This is what occupation looked like. Not liberation. Not peace. A nation stripped of its freedom, its culture, and millions of its people, yet one that refused to surrender.

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Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut

7 hours ago

YEP!!

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🇺🇸 INCREDIBLE! DC will have over SEVEN HOURS STRAIGHT of flyovers on America’s 250th birthday, featuring COUNTLESS military aircraft, including the new Air Force One … and possibly even even the new STEALTH bomber, the B-21 👀 America is about to have an INCREDIBLE birthday! 🔥 (h/t @PenguinSix for the schedule!)

I told you John Thune is a Democrat. How’s that for a backstabber—worthy of an Oscar award!

Mila Joy @Milajoy

2 days ago

Did you know that John Thune, the LEADER of the Senate, has a wife AND a daughter who are Democrats? The only reason he SAYS he's a republican is to get elected in South Dakota. He's really a Democrat too. The GOP needs to pull it's heads outta it's asses and REMOVE HIM.

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@BrumPolice These are the videos they don't want you to see. See for yourself how this situation was handled. x.com/i/status/20723…

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4th of July bitches 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Birmingham Police @BrumPolice

a day ago

We are aware of footage showing the arrest of a man after a disorder on Broad Street at 1.30am on 21 June. Officers found a group of men fighting. As the incident was dealt with, an officer was punched. One man was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer.

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It’s important to remember that if fireworks were used to celebrate third worlders or homosexuals you would be required to watch them. The issue isn’t the what, it’s the why.

AlexandriaVAGov @AlexandriaVAGov

2 days ago

Fireworks are illegal in Alexandria, including sparklers. Report illegal fireworks by calling 311. Our show is next weekend. Join us for the City Birthday celebration on July 11 at Oronoco Bay Park. Free admission. More info at alexandriava.gov/Birthday.

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Stop listening to the people talking start watching what are they doing👀

Paul Renner @Paul_Renner

21 hours ago

Just last year, Jay Collins personally championed AI Data Centers. He called them a major opportunity for Florida’s economy and pushed permanent tax breaks to bring them here.

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FAFO 🤡 !!!

TRENDING ➞ 911 @911NewsBreaks

a day ago

Former US Olympian David Hearn was arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington DC.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Ciekawostka. US Army z garnizonu z Poznania organizują w Poznaniu jedyną poza terenem USA imprezę z okazji 250-lecia państwa. "Organizatorzy zapowiedzieli spektakularny, zsynchronizowany z muzyką na żywo pokaz laserowo-pirotechniczny, w którym fajerwerki mają wystrzeliwać na symboliczną wysokość nawet 250 metrów." Bilety po 10 zeta. Chyba warto. ;) gloswielkopolski.pl/to-pierwsze-ta…

If someone molested my child, they should sleep with 1 eye open.

Cernovich @Cernovich

a day ago

A man who molested a 10 year old was convicted of those charges. The Trump administration was seeking to deport him, as he was a violent felon, eligible for deportation. Tim Walz rushed to pardon the pedophile, to remove the predicate felon, and keep him in the country.

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@DSA_Watch People must stop believing words and start watching actions! These scum backstabbing politicians will say anything to keep their positions!!!

Exclusive: Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian in Vermont fighting deportation. His supporters think he is a man of peace. We found recent footage that completely destroys that image. Mohsen says one thing in English - and something very different in Arabic. Thread ⬇️⬇️⬇️

LGBTQI+++ Soap? Leave the suds alone! I used to use this product before making my own. I'll never buy any brand promoting this degeneracy, child mutilation and makes in female spaces. Go Woke Go Broke

Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News🥜 @unhealthytruth

3 days ago

Before I got banned, Dr. Bronner’s used to follow me and comment on my page. Now I’m wondering… do any of you still buy their products after the CEO came out as part woman, part man, and part low key cat? What the hell is happening with the leaders of the natural health

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I'm glad someone is finally saying it.

Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK

3 days ago

🚨 "THEY'RE SELLING KIDS TO BE RAPED." Rep. Tim Burchett has delivered a blistering message on child sexual exploitation, arguing that Americans need to stop sanitizing what is happening. "They're selling these kids to get raped." Burchett said predators and those who buy

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Holy. Shit. Tim Walz actually just pardoned an illegal immigrant who raped a 10-year-old girl. He did it to shield him from being deported. What the fuck is happening… Tim Walz and this man should be hanged.

The Statue of Liberty agrees.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

🚨 CAUGHT ON CAMERA: An Amazon employee was CLEARLY SEEN deliberately knocking the hat off a Trump mannequin. Politics aside, bringing personal views into the workplace like this is UNPROFESSIONAL and UNACCEPTABLE. The video is now going viral, and EVERYONE CAN JUDGE THE FOOTAGE FOR THEMSELVES. W.H.G