[Franek Grabowski]

Originally Posted by Grozibou

A. Having been in France 1940 does not prove that you're not telling bullshit. A number of French people were in France 1940 and they don't confirm these anti-French hateful Polish myths so they must be right for they were there.

Do you expect that people accused of cowardice will gently admit to it, do not you? The fact is that such accounts are numerous and related to various units. Not all of them, but not single cases.

B. 20 years ago was 1988. I was fully busy with selling "Les premiers et les derniers" and working on "Invisibles vainqueurs", together with Paul Martin (who was adding some new passsages and dozens of new aircraft serials all the time until the spring of 1991 - not an easy task for me) and general Accart. That was enough of a burden. What's more, I had no reason to suspect all the garbage and BS published LATER, at least 10 years later. I had no idea.

I cannot imagine Frenchmen were unawared of what is being published in Polish. There were numerous books published in Poland since the war and describing the French Campaign first hand.

I thought Poland and France were good friends precisely after WW II.

Oh, yes, de Gaulle was the first western leader to recognise criminal puppet communistic government of so called Poland. A lot of friendship to be expected.

If I had been aware of "it" I would have demolished it thoroughly, which I am going to do in my next book, and you'll look rather foolish to say the least.

We shall see.

But everybody here (except the newbies) knows you and your blind fanatism, which reminds me of genuine Nazi's anti-Jewish fanatism (not to mention purely Polish anti-Jewish racism).

Polish-Jewish relations were not based on racist grounds, so common in the Western Europe. Mind you those were French from independent France (Vichy), who send train after train full of Jews to be disposed off. Really, your view of the past is seriously distorted.

30 years ago was 1978 and I had just been recruited by the entirely new European Patent Office (end of 1977), in Munich, as an experienced translator. This huge international organisation (15 countries at the time, now probably around 30) was being created and growing. You can believe me, I WAS BUSY (and I didn't bother a lot about WW II even though I was interested). So I had some other concerns. I would never have imagined that anti-French Polish hate anyway. To me this discovery was a complete surprise. After all my own father, an important member of the Armée de l'Air (major) and of the Résistance, was murdered (NOT killed in a fight or in a gun-battle) by enemy soldiers who used to kill whomever they were able to catch.

That is entirely your problem. At the time there was your chance to discuss all the issues, when the people involved were still alive and kicking.

Why don't you stop the nonsense at last?

The thing you call nonsense are quotes from the airmen who fought over France in 1940 and for France 1940-1945. I cannot stop them, this has been already written.