Poland

87km - about an hour and a half of a car ride

"buon giorno" - good day "buona sera" - good evening "ciao" - among friends or peers "salve" - that's the old latin greeting they still use today! among friends

These are two separate areas. I'll address the Rhineland first.

To begin, Hitler/Germany did not 'take over' the Rhineland. The French had been encroaching on western German lands for a couple centuries. Napoleon had greatly expanded France at the expense of the Germans around 1800. A little bit of payback came when Germany took back the province of Alsace (German speaking) and about half of Loraine (important militarily and economically) in 1870. The French boiled after the loss of these two areas and were quick to get into war with Germany in 1914 to regain them.

The French were on the winning side in WWI and sought massive territorial transfers of German lands, something on the order of what Napoleon had gained at his peak in the early 1800's. The other allies refused to allow the French such gluttony, but France did get back her two lost provinces of Loraine and Alsace (still German speaking). However, the French had also wanted the eastern border of their country moved all the way east, about 100 miles, to the Rhine river. Instead they were forced to accept that this area of Germany would be 'demilitarized'.

Thus, Germany was not allowed fortifications, military bases or even troops, in the area. This was meant to give the French some buffer from the German army. In order to enforce reparations the French later sent in their own troops to this area where they raped local women and pillaged the land.

Later when Hitler came to power he pledged to put a stop to this national disgrace. One of his first acts was to order a symbolic marching of German army troops into the Rhineland. Again this was purely symbolic and was not meant a direct threat to any neighbor nation. In fact, the troops were under orders to retreat should they be attacked by French military. In summary, Germany remilitarized the Rhineland but did not 'take over' the area.

As for Poland - this situation was in some ways similar. Poland had once been a great country, in the 1500's and 1600's, but had gradually faded, mostly due to incompetent political leadership. Eventually the nation disappeared from the map of Europe, as various pieces were taken over by Austria, Prussia, and Russia (Russia gained the most by far, probably 70% including the capital, Warsaw).

After WWI, the Poles were granted independence by the western allies. Their new nation was given territory from Russia and Germany for the most part. The Poles were not satisfied with this arrangement however, and pushed their borders outward. They occupied a huge swath of Russian lands on the east. To the west they sent regular army troops to try and steal land from an already shrunken Germany. Local German militias turned out to defeat these invaders and the Poles were stymied in moving further west.

When Hitler came to power one of his goals was to unite the various German speaking peoples of the world into one nation. Poland contained a large minority of Germans, their lands having been given to Poland by the French and British. Hitler demanded the return of these territories. The Poles, thinking France and Britain would help them, resisted. War ensued and Germany quickly liberated their people from Polish rule, plus occupied a portion of the rest of Poland. Russia too, got their revenge, and attacked from the east, taking about half the nation.

The resources Hitler's Germany gained in Poland were extensive. The western Polish lands contained iron, coal, zinc, and lead in good quantities, plus some heavy industrial plants. Some decent aggricultural lands were also taken, although most of those were in the east, taken by the Soviets. Germany also improved her strategic situation. Her new national borders were more rounded or even, allowing for easier defense. Some buffer lands were created as defense against the Soviets. The Polish army had been a potential enemy, and it was eliminated.

Although Hitler cetainly had some justification in occupying western Poland, the western allies saw this as the first expansion of Germany beyond purely German speaking territories, and declared war. WWII had begun.

Someone decided they should take a count of who all wanted it and who didn't and bam there it was.

I dont think any country in 1993. perhaps you meant 1939, which was Germany?

Poland was a communist country until 1989.

he found solidarity

pisarz (female: pisarka)

you can say "powieściopisarz" to stress that he writes novels and not something else

Moshe was in a cattle train that crossed the border into Poland, he tells them, where it was taken over by the Gestapo, the German secret police. He believes he needs to tell the Jews of Sighet. this so that he might save them.

THE HEAD RABBI IN LESKO, ALSO THE MOST RESPECTED RABBI IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY OF POLAND, WAS LOCATED IN LESKO, POLAND, AND WAS THE RABBI IN THEIR SYNAGOGUE, BEFORE THE NAZI'S INVADED. HIS NAME WAS, RABBI ABRAHAM GRANIK. WHAT I DO NOT KNOW, IS HOW MANY SYNAGOGUES THERE WAS, AT THAT TIME, IN LESKO, SINCE RABBI GRANIK, WAS ORTHODOX. THEREFORE, IF THERE WAS ONLY ONE SYNAGOGUE, HE WAS THE ONE AND ONLY RABBI, AT THE TIME, AND HE WAS ALSO THE MOHEL (SP?) AND ALSO SOMETHING ELSE, THAT WAS VERY "UNIQUE", FOR THE TIME PERIOD IN 1939 AND THE SITUATION IN POLAND - THAT HE WAS ALSO THE APPOINTED "REPRESENTATIVE" FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY, ON THE CITY COUNSIL, FOR THE CITY OF LESKO. LASTLY, HE ALSO HELD THE JEWISH VERSION OF "A COURT HEARING" IN HIS APARTMENT, FOR THE ENTIRE JEWISH COMMUNITY. I BELIEVE THE ONE, VERY BEAUTIFUL SYNAGOGUE, IN LESKO POLAND, WAS A CONSERVATIVE OR REFORM SYNANGOGUE, AND IF THAT IS THE CASE, HE WAS THE RABBI OF THE ONE ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE. HOPEFULLY, SOMEBODY ELSE HAS SOME ADDITONAL INFORMATION ON THIS VERY INTERESTING TOWN/CITY OF LESKO, POLAND. THERE WERE TWO "2" SYNAGOGUES IN LESKO, POLAND, BEFORE THE NAZIS INVADED. I KNOW THE RABBI AT ONE OF THE SYNAGOGUES WAS RABBI ABRAHAM GRANIK. I KNOW THAT HE ALSO HELD OUR VERSION OF "COURT" IN HIS APARTMENT, AND THAT HE WAS THE VERY FIRST "1ST." JEWISH PERSON, TO HAVE HELD A SEAT ON THE LESKO, CITY COUNSEL, REPRESENTING THE JEWISH COMMUNITY. HIS MANY, HIGH VERY ACCOMPLISHMENTS, TOGETHER WITH THE HIGH RESPECT, HE HAD EARNED FROM BOTH THE JEWISH AND THE NON-JEWISH COMMUNITY, NOT JUST IN LESKO, BUT THROUGHOUT POLAND, ALSO PROBABLY LED TO HIS BEING ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE, AND HIS FAMILY, BEING ONE OF THE FIRST FAMILIES, KILLED BY THE NAZIES, WHEN THEY FIRST INVADED LESKO. I HAS NEVER BEEN "CONFIRMED" WHERE, OR WHEN, BY WHAT MEANS, OR ON WHAT DATE, DID HE AND HIS FAMILY DIE, SINCE MANY IN LESKO THAT DAY THAT THE NAZIS INVADED, SAW IT DIFFERENTLY OR JUST REMEMBER IT DIFFERENTLY. IF ANYONE WAS ALIVE THEN, AND WITNESSED WHAT HAPPENED, OR IF ANYONE, OR THEIR RELATIVES, HAS FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE, PLEASE PASS IT ALONG.

never, are you kuku? Ireland did, in the 1840s

Refusing to participate in group activities

There are lots of bus tours that go there from Krakow. It is easy to get to.

"Dziękuję" means "thank you". It's pronounciated in polish somewhat similar to "jenkuie" so I guess that's the word you're asking for.

* Russia * Belarus * Ukraine

The Blitzkrieg Strategy.

They were a happy family but once the nazis got there. eveything just turne into a disaster.

1. To annex Danzig and the area of Poland separating East Prussia from the rest of Germany.

2. To expand.

Germany invaded Poland on Sept 1, 1939 and the invasion officially ended on October 5, 1939. This comes to 5 weeks.

It should be noted that Germany only conquered about half of Poland- the other half was conquered by the Soviet Union at the same time.

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bole e slaw vick

Many, Many People Left The Country, and the country was in ruins, a horrid site, then people started moving back in again ,yippee!

Trust- Zaufanie (noun), Zaufać (verb). If you want to say 'Trust me' it's 'Zaufaj mi'. Hope it helps.

Lech Walesa .

Never. It was, however, slavic (extremly long time ago; its name is slavic).