Death in Poland
The Fate of the Ethnic Germans.

Postscript by The Scriptorium:
65 Years Later

"But I already know today exactly what the other nations will say to all of this:...What else could the poor Poles do but get rid of [the German minority] as quickly as possible - seeing as now they were being attacked not only from the front, but also from within! The fact that their anger at this treacherous attack led to some excesses, well, who could possibly blame them for that..."

That was what Dr. Kohnert predicted in September 1939 (Chapter 13). And how did reality turn out? The following article from February 3, 2003, published in a prestigious mainstream German news periodical, gives a glimpse:

Poland

Compensation for Death Sentences?

The Federal Republic of Germany is facing a new wave of demands for compensation for Nazi crimes - this time from Poland. Before the Wehrmacht marched in to the city of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) in September 1939, the city had been the scene of attacks by Poles on members of the German minority (in Nazi-speak: "Bloody Sunday of Bromberg"). After the occupation, Nazi judges quickly passed several hundred death sentences, which were usually carried out immediately. Surviving family members now hope to achieve the legal vindication of those who were executed. "The sentences were passed in a perversion of justice and must be rescinded," says Cologne attorney Andrzej Remin. German authorities had paid up to 10,000 Marks compensation in a similar case two years ago. The money went to the surviving family members of the defenders of the Polish Mail of Danzig who had been sentenced to death by National Socialist courts and for whom Günter Grass created a literary monument in his book The Tin Drum.

Spiegel, 3. 2. 2003

Any further comments would be superfluous here.

Scriptorium, September 2004.

Death
in PolandThe
Fate of the Ethnic Germans.
Postscript
by The Scriptorium:65 Years Later
"But
I already know today exactly what the other nations will say to all of
this:...What else could the poor Poles do but get rid of [the German minority]
as quickly as possible - seeing as now they were being attacked not only from
the front, but also from within! The
fact that their anger at this treacherous attack led to some excesses, well, who
could possibly blame them for that..."

That
was what Dr. Kohnert predicted in September 1939 (Chapter 13). And how did reality turn out? The
following article from February 3, 2003, published in a prestigious mainstream
German news periodical, gives a glimpse:

Poland
Compensation
for Death Sentences?
The
Federal Republic of Germany is facing a new wave of demands
for compensation for Nazi crimes - this time from
Poland.
Before the Wehrmacht marched in to the city of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) in
September 1939, the city had been the scene of attacks by Poles on members
of the German minority (in Nazi-speak: "Bloody Sunday of Bromberg"). After
the occupation, Nazi judges quickly passed several hundred death
sentences, which were usually carried out immediately. Surviving
family members now hope to achieve the legal vindication of those who were
executed. "The sentences were passed in a perversion of justice and must
be rescinded," says Cologne attorney Andrzej Remin.
German authorities had paid up to 10,000 Marks compensation in a similar
case two years ago. The money went to the surviving family members of the
defenders of the Polish Mail of Danzig who had been sentenced to death by
National Socialist courts and for whom Günter Grass created a literary
monument in his book The Tin Drum.
Spiegel, 3. 2.
2003
Any
further comments would be superfluous here.Scriptorium,
September 2004.