Hi Leszek:
Not all Poles in Germany during the war where as lucky as the
people who worked on that farm.
My Dad was a US soldier in the campaigns in France and Belgium in
WW2. He spoke of a case in where retreating Germans placed bobby
traps in a factory with female Polish workers inside. When the
Americans opened the factory the mines were set off causing
casualties among these unfortunate women. They told my dad in Polish
of their brutal treatment by the Nazis.
A few years ago I met a Pole in the US from Kresy who was deported to
Germany during the war as a forced laborer. He related an account of
a recent trip to Belgium and Poland to visit relatives. Since he had
a rented car I assumed that he would get on the autobahn and drive
from Belgium to Poland. He took a route through France, Italy,
Slovenia,Hungary and The Czech Republic instead. When I asked why he
avoided Germany he remarked " I never want to be in that country
again"
Czesc,
Barney Dombrowski
--- In Kresy-Siberia@..., Lech Lesiak <lech_lesiak@y...>
wrote:
--- Margaret Dubicki <yenisei44@y...> wrote:
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Start Quote
My Polish friend, Wladyslaw Labedzki always tell this
tale: He had been taken from Poland and forced
laboured on a farm in Germany where, actually, he had
not a bad time (one of the fortunate ones)
End quote
My father was sent to work on German farms as well.
One of the farmers was brutal, the other treated his
forced labourers just like the rest of his family.
A local Nazi official showed up during dinner at the
second farm, and told the farmer his Polish workers
shouldn't be eating withe family.
The farmer told him to bugger off, that the Poles
worked with the family, so they ate with the family.
Czesc,
Leszek
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