Poland refuses to join Berlin project remembering Germans driven from homes after WWII

Haha beat me to it.

No problem.

4 times larger then the enclosed space of Windsor Castle!

 

Malbork is an impressive place. I didn't get to visit the grounds but drove by it several times.

 

It is a nice casstle. I'm always impressed to see centuries old brick castles because I'd expect the bricks to be more fragile than stone. Most Bricks castles have fallen apart long ago.

 

"taking Europe back to what it once was, Germania" Can you please tell us exactly what you mean by this? I live in Europe and the only Germans we ever saw here were some passing Crusaders in XII Cent. and nowadays a few tourists. Oh, and some Swabian barbarians were founding a kingdom here in VII Cent. as well.

Fragile bricks my ass! Remember Königsberg's (now Kaliningrad) famous brick fortifications and the trouble they gave! Same for Glogau, Breslau, etc!

 

Marlbork Castle after WW2....

 

Well, I never did any restoration work before, but if there is a decent war somewhere I could do the reconstruction management! Damn! Born in the wrong era!

 

Yeah , now I understand, a post WWII restauration, those bricks are only a few decades old. A lot more fragile than granite if you ask me.
The first version was made of straw , the second of wood and then the Soviet wolf came
Btw the ruins are amazing, both pictures make a great "now and then" setting. Thanks for posting.

 

That is totally out of order.
The European Union is supposed to stop this type of nonsense. Members of the EU are supposed to be entitled to travel, work, and live anywhere within the EU without restriction.

Why are Germans not allowed to buy Polish farmland, its totally against the spirit of the EU ??????

 

The exception was made to keep large multi-national corporations from buying all the farmland in Poland from the largely, peasant rural population. The company I worked for got around the regulations by creating a front company owned by Polish citizens. Before I left in 2003, we had purchased 45,000 acres under this guise. The large farms we purchased happened to be in the parts of Poland that had previously been German territory prior to 1939-1945. Two large farms were in Pomerania, the other in East Prussia. The existence of such large operations were the direct result of post-WWII forced relocation and land appropriation by the Polish/Soviet authorities. They appropriated the land from German owners and created large collective farms (>5,000 acres).
Foreigners could purchase real estate and small land holdings (<2 hectares) but larger plots were disallowed.

 

Like I said this will soon stop because Poland has signed the Schengen Treaty and borders withing this area do no matter any more.