The Shred Room II (with extra youth)

I'm quite angry about my country after reading something online... grrr!

Old news... like 60+ year old news but still... gosh.  It makes me sad.

LinusW wrote: Something to do with the war?

Aye.

I was reading about Witold Pilecki on Wikipedia.

He should be a Polish hero of sorts.  Why did us Brits not pay attention to him?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki

A little snippet (in reference to Auschwitz):

The British authorities refused the Home Army air support for an operation to help the inmates escape. An air raid was considered too risky, and Home Army reports on Nazi atrocities at Auschwitz were deemed to be gross exaggerations (Pilecki wrote: "During the first 3 years, at Auschwitz there perished 2 million people; in the next 2 years—3 million"). The Home Army in turn decided that it didn't have enough force to storm the camp by itself.



Addendum: and the post-war Communist Polish government are just as much to blame...


Edited by James - January 25 2009 at 15:25

TGM: Orb wrote: James wrote: LinusW wrote: Something to do with the war? Aye. I was reading about Witold Pilecki on Wikipedia. He should be a Polish hero of sorts.  Why did us Brits not pay attention to him? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki A little snippet (in reference to Auschwitz): The British authorities refused the Home Army air support for an operation to help the inmates escape. An air raid was considered too risky, and Home Army reports on Nazi atrocities at Auschwitz were deemed to be gross exaggerations (Pilecki wrote: "During the first 3 years, at Auschwitz there perished 2 million people; in the next 2 years—3 million"). The Home Army in turn decided that it didn't have enough force to storm the camp by itself. Addendum: and the post-war Communist Polish government are just as much to blame... Sixty years back. Dead news. We need to worry about what's going on now.

Well of course.  I know that.

But it still makes me annoyed.

Just think of all those people that could have been saved...

Still, it's sort of the opposite problem right now... it's the Jews that are kind of guilty of a few things.

But I won't go there.

Edit: and why did you have to use Dead?   That's rather insensitive.


Edited by James - January 25 2009 at 15:32

David, Linus hasn't commented on it... 

But yes, I knew that all Allies likely new stuff but just reading about it makes me a little annoyed.

Oh and yes, I'm not having a go at the Jewish in relation to Gaza but both Hamas and Iran could have handled it all differently and more peacefully.

It's just how things go.

I'm certainly not anti-semitic, far from it.  I'm just a pacifist.

I know you didn't mean to say it that way.  I was just a littlr short-fused.  My apologies.

Old News would have sounded better.

But no worries.  All is good.

And yes, what happened 60+ years ago has nothing really to do with the current situation.  I wasn't linking them together.

It's just sad that things have gone the way they have.  I hate conflicts and wars and unnecessary death and disease and all that.


Edited by James - January 25 2009 at 15:55

Yes and I meant no ill-will with my comments.

I just wish the world was at peace, that's all.

James wrote: On a different note... I keep getting logged-out when I visit polls. It's annoying. Sometimes it lets me write a reply and then logs me out when I try to send the message. It only seems to do it when it's a poll.  Very odd.

That does sound weird.

Can't say I've had the same problem.

James wrote: Oh and it only seems to do it in the Poll section. The Bern vs. KC poll was fine.

That seems even weirder, but at least you know the source of it.

MovingPictures07 wrote: James wrote: Oh and it only seems to do it in the Poll section. The Bern vs. KC poll was fine. That seems even weirder, but at least you know the source of it.

Yep Peter's secret pol(l)ice strike again.

Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts = pure genius