London Decameron: Part 2

By Heinz Landon-Burgher

The second part of the London Decameron covers the sixth day with a viewing of Hampton Court Palace. The center of the stories is the splendid court of Henry VIII and his wives. The evening in a nostalgically styled Russian restaurant in the style of the Tsar era turns to the beginning of the Russian campaign. The seventh day begins with a visit to Windsor Castle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: May 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9783749458875

Heinz Landon-Burgher

Der Autor steht voll auf der Seite von Trump und Putin, die dem "Deep-State" den Kampf angesagt haben. Er ist auch überzeugt, dass die verbrecherischen Machthaber im Washingtoner Sumpf in den letzten Zügen liegen.

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The sixth day

Bus journey to Hampton Court (6.1)

Houston promised me something very special for this day, something that London visitors rarely get to see. Namely, the beautiful gardens surrounding Hampton Court Palace. Hampton Court is located up the Thames, quite far from the center on the outskirts of the city.

To get there, we took one of the London double decker buses, because we wanted to see London's neighborhoods on the way; these are more reminiscent of small towns, idyllic with their small front gardens and the typical houses for just one family.

Miroslav

During the journey he also told me that we were going to meet one of his best friends there, a person who is always part of the small group who gather for regular discussion evenings. His father came to London in 1941 with the Polish government-in-exile.

Flight of the Polish government

The government in Warsaw fled immediately after defeat by the Germans. Normally, a government stays and negotiates a peace treaty with the victors. In this case, the Poles would probably have had to agree to a connecting road and railway between Germany and East Prussia. The government officials, however, presumably assumed that Hitler would make short work of them and took themselves over the Romanian border to safety. The Romanians were allies of the Germans, and so they were interned there. This led to a new Polish government-in-exile being formed under Sikorski.

Polish government-in-exile

Sikorski had already been president once and was known to detest the Germans. He said: We need to capture the homes and fields of the Germans – meaning the Germans whose territory was awarded to the Poles following the First World War – and if they do not run away themselves, we will have to kill them. These words of a statesman sound quite alarming from today's perspective. More than one million Germans were driven out in this way, straight after the end of the First World War, well before the outbreak of the Second World War. According to accounts from the Nazis, more than 65,000 Germans were also killed in massacres. Churchill, however, reduced this number. In his ten-volume history of the Second World War, he writes that the figure actually stood at 8,000 and was therefore not worth mentioning.

Temporary seat of government

Sikorski initially went into exile in Paris along with the members of his government. The disappointment with Churchill was too great. It was he who had pushed them to war, and who, in spite of a pact of assistance, had abandoned them so ignominiously. After the defeat of France, however, the exiled government had no choice but to go to England.

Hitler's concessions

Hitler had almost reached an agreement with Poland offering the Poles astonishing concessions, far greater than the Weimar government had ever agreed to.

Indeed, he had even planned to take action against the Bolsheviks together with the Poles. The middle and upper classes in Poland were opposed to a communist revolution, just like in Germany. For this, Poland was promised the whole of Lithuania, as in the Jagiellonian era. Areas in Ukraine where Poles resided, although in the minority, were also to be annexed to Poland.

Churchill's promises

Churchill, however, had promised the Poles vastly more than this if they did not cooperate with Hitler. They were to receive all of East Prussia, Silesia, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with the entire Baltic Sea coast. What’s more, this is along with the Mark Brandenburg together with the capital of Berlin, which were particularly important to them for historical reasons. For people today, this is almost inconceivable. The Poles fell for these promises.

Cover-up

After the Second World War, however, Churchill acted as if the Poles had enforced the displacement of the Germans from their homeland entirely autocratically, against their wishes. In the Iron Curtain speech before American students at Fulton University, he even spoke of the injustice of the displacement. He knew exactly, therefore, that he had contravened international law and human rights, yet deemed it clever to cover it up.

Brandenburg

Brandenburg was the biggest stronghold of the then-Gentile West Slavic region. The Poles saw their ancestors in these tribes. It was for this reason that they reclaimed these branches for themselves. These branches were forced to convert to Christianity at the time of the Crusades, around 1200. The population, however, was not driven out. Over the centuries they mixed with the Germans and took up their language. The remnants of the Slavic languages are only retained in the Spreewald area and are spoken by Sorbs and Wends. But to this day, the family names in this area are proof that the majority of the population have Slavic roots. One million German surnames are of Polish origin. I thought of a story about that.

Thomas Gottschalk

He is a popular entertainer in the Federal Republic. He comes from this area. Curious as he is, he allowed his DNA to be analyzed and was completely astonished when the results showed that 50% of his genetic makeup is of Polish origin. For all intents and purposes, though, this is not really that surprising. The same result is likely for all those who originate from Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, if I take your information as a starting point, dear Houston.

Shitstorm

Gottschalk made a harmless joke on that point. This surprising discovery about his roots inspired him to say, rather self-deprecatingly: Now I know why I shoplifted so happily as a child.

It is after all well-known that Poles in border areas were particularly active in stealing cars. That this self-deprecating joke unleashed a shitstorm is, however, not a sign of a relaxed relationship and interaction.

Displacement

In principle, the Poles had also expropriated and driven out their own compatriots after 1945, though they had simply taken on the German language over the course of 800 years.

Ignorance

I admitted to Houston that I had only heard of this historic situation through him. I knew nothing about a lot of things. My impression is that German history is simply edited out of the syllabus in German schools.

Racial purity

In the horse and dog breeding spheres, purity of breeding is an imperative. Many believe that racial purity should also be of utmost importance in the human race. Hitler, for example, was convinced that the high level of intelligence among the Jews could be traced back to the fact that the Jews had attached great importance to racial purity throughout the entire course of their history. A Jew could be someone with a Jewish mother. The identity of the father didn't even come into it. Perhaps even the mothers were not entirely sure.

Coudenhove-Kalergi

The eminent politician Coudenhove-Kalergi, himself of mixed-race origin with the most extraordinary of abilities, was convinced that the mixing of races produced inferior subjects. His father was from ancient Bohemian nobility, which had mixed with Dutch bloodlines, while his mother was a Kalergi, a Japanese aristocrat woman.

Interbreeding

We are discussing this theory. It seemed more probable to me that miscegenation is in fact better than racial purity. Coudenhove-Kalergi is the best example of this. This is also hardly depicted anywhere better than in Saxony and Brandenburg, as we have already seen from the example of Thomas Gottschalk, where the 50–50 mixture of Germanic and Slavic is usual. The great geniuses: Bach, Handel, Schumann, and Nietzsche are most likely the result of the successful mixing two races. However, it would still be a shock if DNA analysis of Martin Luther were to show that this essential German was possibly genetically half-Polish.

Hitler–Stalin pact

Hitler was unable to carry out his plan to act in concert with the Poles against Bolshevism, as the Poles had promised the English that they would provoke Germany into war. This meant that Hitler had to change fronts and formed an alliance with Stalin. Hitler wanted to avoid a war on a second front, as had happened in the First World War, under all circumstances.

Fire and water

This was the most paradoxical alliance imaginable. Hitler's main aim was the destruction of Bolshevism. Stalin's end goal was the consummation of the international revolution, which could only be deemed successful once red flags were waving in Berlin. This is a quotation by