Merkel ally Steinbach quits in row over blame for WWII

[Modbert]

BBC News - Merkel ally Steinbach quits in row over blame for WWII

An ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will resign from a top party post after suggesting that Poland may have been as responsible as Hitler for the outbreak of World War II.

Erika Steinbach said Poland had mobilised its troops months before the Nazis invaded in September 1939.

Her remarks were criticised by senior politicians including Mrs Merkel.

The BBC's European affairs correspondent Oana Lungescu says Mrs Steinbach, the daughter of a German army officer who served in Nazi-occupied Poland, has long been a figure of hatred for Poles.

Good to see others in Germany condemning this type of trash.

 

[ekrem]

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As an addition:
The day Hitler attacked Poland, he said in Radio: "Since 5:45 o'clock, we shoot back."
The Nazi propaganda was that Poland started the war. Steinbach said, that Poland did arm against Germany at least 6 months before Germany invaded Poland.

Independently, a Statement by the Russian Defence MInistry on it's Website:
via Telegraph
Russia accuses Poland of starting Second World War - Telegraph

 

[ekrem]

What's this all about?
Small, good article.

Merkel defends party colleague over Poland war comment | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 10.09.2010

 

[Baruch Menachem]

You got the worst thug in the neighborhood has got you boxed in from three sides and then this thug makes a deal with the second worst thug to carve you up, and you don't arm to defend yourself is stupid.
Of course the Poles were mobilized. You have a neighbor like Hitler's germany on three sides of you, you better be