Originally Posted by batgirl:
“I just wish that the Polish government had given us my family's land back before plonking a football stadium on it. Thieving wotnots. Grrrrr etc. Their latest scam, sorry, proposal, is that everyone with a claim needs to stump up something like 5% of the value, then there's a court case, and if you lose they keep the 5%. The response so far is that thousands of Poles are wondering if they look like they were born yesterday.”
I've got a similar story, where the communists seized a prime site that my grandfather rented out in the former East Germany. It would be worth millions today if sold.
The communists froze the rent and as a result of that my grandfather couldn't afford the upkeep of the very large property, so the communists seized control.
We're talking about a central site in a city of nearly 250,000 inhabitants.
My family history is so complicated I just can't get my head around it, thanks to Nazi Germany. What happened when, years and dates and that all of us are so separated.
There again I wouldn't be here if the second world war had never existed.
Sorry if the above is a bit too serious for the thread. But it all makes me

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