re: #426 FemNaziBitch

I was thinking of the language differences. There were German speaking people, ethnically German people living Poland, Austria, etc. Very similar to the situation in the Ukraine and Crimea.

The language thing is very interesting.

I actually read a novel this past year, Hunger Angel. It’s about a German speaking Romanian who was deported to Russia following WWII. Kafka who was Czech in nationality but spoke only German is another interesting example of the complexities of language and geography in central/eastern Europe. If I’m not mistaken, I think Sigmund Freud was born in the Czech Republic but also spoke only German. Simple things like calling a name by its name in another language can start stuff. I always make the effort to call the city of Gdansk in its Polish name.