Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
Not really - this is much better:
BTW - Germans have Sauer Kraut and Poles have Kiszona Kapusta - they are the same thing.
Germans are even known as "Cabbages" (Krauts), such an all-German nickname.
Poles don't have an all-Polish nickname derived from vegetables.
But Poles from other regions sometimes call ones from my region (Poznan) "Potatoes" (Pyry).
We "Potatoes" are renowned for our enterpreneurship and for kicking the asses of "Cabbages" in Posener Aufstand.
My paternal grandfather was a typical, industrious "Potato" - citizen of a small town (Dobrzyca) he owned and ran (together with his 1st and then 2nd wifes) a shop and a meat-processing plant inside the town, and he also owned a farm in villages outside of the town. He was a merchant, a master craftsman (master butcher) and a part-time farmer in one person. His brother, another industrious "Potato", owned a company in the city of Gdynia. The Nazis came and murdered his brother in 1939 - that was part of the Piasnica mass murders, where they exterminated Polish elites from Gdynia (including business class, like my grand-uncle). After expulsion or murder of a large part of its Polish inhabitants, the city of Gdynia was renamed Gotenhafen. Germans also murdered my grandfather's first wife in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. Later the Communists came and in 1950s they nationalized both his shop and his meat-processing plant.
His private property became state-owned.
In one of those buildings in Gdynia where my grand-uncle's company was located, there is now... a branch of Deutsche Bank in Gdynia!
My family has sued to regain those properties - in total three plots of land - or a financial compensation for their loss.
If we win the case, we will get a lot of money. These three plots of land are in the middle of Gdynia now. They are worth more than in 1939.
Spoiler :
BTW - Germans have Sauer Kraut and Poles have Kiszona Kapusta - they are the same thing.
Germans are even known as "Cabbages" (Krauts), such an all-German nickname.
Poles don't have an all-Polish nickname derived from vegetables.
But Poles from other regions sometimes call ones from my region (Poznan) "Potatoes" (Pyry).
We "Potatoes" are renowned for our enterpreneurship and for kicking the asses of "Cabbages" in Posener Aufstand.
My paternal grandfather was a typical, industrious "Potato" - citizen of a small town (Dobrzyca) he owned and ran (together with his 1st and then 2nd wifes) a shop and a meat-processing plant inside the town, and he also owned a farm in villages outside of the town. He was a merchant, a master craftsman (master butcher) and a part-time farmer in one person. His brother, another industrious "Potato", owned a company in the city of Gdynia. The Nazis came and murdered his brother in 1939 - that was part of the Piasnica mass murders, where they exterminated Polish elites from Gdynia (including business class, like my grand-uncle). After expulsion or murder of a large part of its Polish inhabitants, the city of Gdynia was renamed Gotenhafen. Germans also murdered my grandfather's first wife in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. Later the Communists came and in 1950s they nationalized both his shop and his meat-processing plant.
His private property became state-owned.
Domen said:His brother, another industrious "Potato", owned a company in the city of Gdynia. The Nazis came and murdered his brother in 1939 - that was part of the Piasnica mass murders, where they exterminated Polish elites from Gdynia (including business class, like my grand-uncle).
In one of those buildings in Gdynia where my grand-uncle's company was located, there is now... a branch of Deutsche Bank in Gdynia!
My family has sued to regain those properties - in total three plots of land - or a financial compensation for their loss.
If we win the case, we will get a lot of money. These three plots of land are in the middle of Gdynia now. They are worth more than in 1939.