To the Polish Pomerania which was majority Polish.
I never said that "Germans didn't abuse Poles".
You said that Germans in Poznan in 1945 harmed nobody. This is untrue, as many were colonists, participated in Nazi administration that engaged in genocide of Poland or supported atrocities in 1939.
However, the German who had lived in Posen his entire life, and his family had lived there, had every right to live there.
By that logic if Hitler would exterminate Poles in Warsaw, than Germans would have right to own it. You are legitimizing conquering other nations.
Also does it mean you would prefer death penalty for Polish citizens of German descent who collaborated with Nazi regime instead of population transfer? Because if he lived whole life there he was subject to Polish law and Polish citizen...
De jure, no. De facto, yes.
Your opinion. A very fringe one, and not shared by any mainstream historian or international law scholar.
Many Poles voted to stay in Germany.
And many Germans voted to go to Poland but were forced to stay in Upper Silesia. And your point is?
Should their wishes have also been denied, due to the desires of Polish revanchists?
A question-are there German revanchists?
Your claim is that it was "right" to remove him, because his ancestors MAY have forcefully removed Poles
You are forgetting that Poles were removed in 1939 to make room for 2 million German colonists and administration, not by some "ancestors".
Also, just because someone speaks Polish doesn't meant they wanted to be in Poland
Just as if somebody speaks German doesn't mean he wants to live in Germany. Again, your point?
Officially, Poland wasn't a "state" as we know it today either
Officially Poland was always Poland. The Polish state officially views itself as continuation of Piast Poland, Commonwealth and Second Republic. Sure the government type changed, but it remained Poland.
Not going to respond until you read the ENTIRE sentence and see why your response isn't worth a further response.
Your claim that Germans in Posen didn't contain people were guilty of anything was proven false(of course I accept that there was some tiny minority not involved with atrocities and Nazism, the Gestapo reports IIRC speak about a couple of hundred Germans with good relations with Poles out of 700.000). If you don't want to respond, your problem. But your claim has no basis in historical facts, quite opposite.
simply because no one appears to be defending against the expulsions in any sensible way
If you want the Germans to stay rather than go to Germany-the consequences will be trial for collaboration with organisation plotting extermination of Polish nation for those involved with Nazism....