The German series Our mothers, our fathers in principal is not a story about Poles and Germans. It is the story about German fate, dilemmas ,intellectual and moral sufferings. I am sorry that I feel very little sympathy to German wartime Intelectual dilemmas and fate.I still refuse to agree to an equalization of the fate of Poles and Germans during the war and immediately afterwards. The Poles never came up with the idea to annihilate the German nation. The Poles didn’t attack Germany without warning, and didn’t blow up the whole of Berlin in cold blood, house after house. The Poles didn’t invent a precise system of terror to intentionally degrade the Germans, and ultimately to destroy them physically. The Poles never had such subtlety and inventiveness in them, no such thoughts arose in their unkempt peasant heads, not even right after the war, when on a wave of temporarily uncontrolled spasms of revenge and in the confusion of postwar anarchy. The bombing of Dresden wasn’t the cause of the war between Germany and the Allies. It was the effect of the Germans’ deep, not fictional Nazis ,fanatical and widespread support for the criminal war that had been started by the Führer and the German nation. The matter is difficult and delicate, because speaking of German fate we are speaking about human suffering.. I’m sorry, but I cannot agree to a community of fate of the Polish and German.There is no such community, and there is no shared Polish-German perspective on it. “In 1942 Dr. Brandt from the department of health, during his rounds in a Jewish hospital in Warsaw, upon learning about the state of the patients’ health conducted an immediate selection with a shot to the head of the seriously ill patients. In this, he asked the female prison doctor who accompanied him if she agreed with his diagnosis,” wrote Polish intellectual Grzegorz Lasota during the debate on the displaced. “He came from Wrocław and was taken prisoner, resettled to Siberia, where he died. The female doctor accompanying him on his rounds had been resettled to Treblinka. Just for one day. After that, she was gassed to death and incinerated. She was my mother.” The Polish - German reconciliation is the fact and no doubt it will continue in the next generations. But it is not reconciliation of our memories. The Polish and German memories will stay apart and the TV series reminded us this fact once again.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:17:25 +0000