Ghost Town and Boomtown

The Second German Television (ZDF) indirectly claims that the Breslauer started the Second World War and that they were therefore expelled in 1945. If the people of Cologne had started the war, they would have been expelled, if the people of Munich had done so, they would have been killed. But because it was the Breslauer, they had to pay – old and young – with the loss of their homeland.

The film „Breslau 2.0 – Boomtown mit Geschichte“ by Armin Coerper (ZDF, 27.12.2015, editor: Matthias Szczerbaniewicz) tells in 15 minutes how the metropolis of Breslau, Silesia, „has always reinvented itself“. A new chapter in its history would begin right now…
Historians, teachers and above all politicians have often tried in the decades following the war to suppress Breslau’s past, to conceal it and to rewrite and update its history. But „the earlier times“ follow them like a dark legacy.

75 years ago, the Germans had to leave here. Poles came from the east and were settled…ZDF, Breslau 2.0 – Boomtown mit Geschichte

…it says at the beginning of the report. – If one is allowed to reduce the period of annexation of the historical East Germany, the millionfold, genocidal expulsion of the ancestral inhabitants and the successive polonization to these two sentences, then it does not bother further that it was not 75, but only 70 years since „the Germans had to leave“.

For filmmaker Armin Coerper, ZDF studio director in Warsaw¹⁾Armin Coerper, ZDF, http://www.zdf.de/auslandsjournal/zdf-korrespondent-armin-coerper-warschau-40633884.html“ – accessed on 28.12.2015, this radical population exchange is in any case „the price of a war they have started“.

It [Breslau] had to start anew in 1945, when the Germans had to leave here – as a price for a war they had started, when Poles came and made the city their own…ZDF, Breslau 2.0 – Boomtown mit Geschichte

In other words: Whoever starts a war must pay for it with the price of his homeland. Because the Breslauers (the East Germans) were expelled from their homeland, they had started the war in reverse conclusion. If the people of Cologne (Rhineland), Munich (Bavaria) or Saarbrücken (Saarland) – Armin Coerper came from there – had started the war, they would surely have been expelled as well…

Ever since Pegida, everyone in Germany has known the polemic and disparaging catchword „Lügenpresse“. Sometimes, however, half-truths, one-sided representations and omissions are worse than obvious lies.

In any case, it is true that the basis of legitimacy of the territorial annexations and ethnic cleansings to which the East Germans and Breslau fell victim is not the „invasion of Poland by Hitler“, but the Churchill-Stalin Pact or the so-called „shift of Poland to the West“.