The Tuchola Forest in northern Poland continues to reveal its secrets as archaeologists explore its vast woods and lakes. A team of archaeologists led by Olaf Popkiewicz made an exceptional discovery near Grzybek, in Wdecki Landscape Park, on the shores of the Żur Reservoir. What began as a routi
  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
    20·
    26 days ago

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

    Anyone else know the name for a "German WW2 soldier?’

    Or how one might have “acquired” that collection?

          • ArtieShaw@fedia.io
            31·
            25 days ago

            It is. And coins are small enough and common enough to be found/stolen/bought and easily carried off as loot.

            Plenty of ancient coins were “re-distributed” to the west in the last 20 years from Afghanistan and Iraq. I knew a guy from work who had a small collection he bought while serving.

            I also happened to be visiting a local coin shop and overheard an unintentionally funny conversation about loot.

            Rando: I have a <lowers voice> ‘German flag’ that I’m interested in selling. Clerk: Those are pretty common, so we probably can’t give you much. Rando: It’s an OLD <lowers voice> ‘German flag’. Clerk: Look, I’m guessing it’s the Nazi one? Those are super common because every soldier brought one back as a souvenir.

            If it’s not already apparent, I like coins. And if I were a common soldier wrapped up in a war, I would absolutely pick up any interesting spare change I came across. Wouldn’t murder anyone for it, but if it looked abandoned? Absolutely.

      • nednobbins@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        25 days ago

        The article is directly quoting the Polish archaeologists who discovered the cite.

          • nednobbins@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            25 days ago

            Are you seriously insinuating that Poland isn’t one of the the two most Nazi hating countries on the planet?

            Let me guess, you’ve never set foot in Poland.

            • propter_hog [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
              2·
              25 days ago

              The Anti-Defamation League estimated the number of far-right skinheads in Poland at 2,000, the fifth highest number after Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the United States.[13] Since the late 2000s, native White power skinhead, White supremacy, and Neo-Nazi groups were largely absorbed into more casual and better organized “Autonomous Nationalists”. National Radical Camp march in Kraków, July 2007

              On the political level, the biggest victories achieved so far by the far-right were in the 2001, 2005, 2015, 2019 and 2023 elections. The League of Polish Families won 38 seats in 2001, and 34 in 2005. In 2015, entering parliament from the list of Kukiz’15, the far-right National Movement gained 5 seats out of Kukiz’s 42. In April 2016, the National Movement leadership decided to break-off with Kukiz’s movement, but only one MP followed the party’s instructions. The ones that decided to stay with Kukiz’15, together with few other Kukiz’s MPs, formed parliamentary nationalist association called “National Democracy” (Endecja).[14] In 2019, the Confederation had the best performance of any far-right coalition to date, earning 1,256,953 votes which was 6.81% of the total vote in an election that saw a historically high turnout. Together the coalition (although de jure a party) earned 11 seats, 5 for KORWiN, 5 for National Movement, and 1 for Confederation of the Polish Crown.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics_in_Poland

              Never been to Poland, but it’s no real surprise that every Polish person I’ve ever met has been politically somewhere between Trump-level fascist and neonazi. And I’ve met quite a few Poles, given I live in Chicago.

              • nednobbins@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                24 days ago

                There are many reasons the ADL is considered an unreliable source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League#Reception_and_controversies and Wikipedia even banned them as a source on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict all together.

                Poland had some the highest per-capita death rate of any country in WWII. They had some of the fiercest resistance to the Nazis of any nation on the planet. The Warsaw Uprising was one of the few resistance movements that was actually effective enough to piss off the Nazis. The remaining pieces of the Ghetto Walls still serve as a Holocaust memorial that spans large chunks of Warsaw.

                A bunch of Polish Americans may or may not be Nazis. I have no idea. The Poles in Poland are some of the un-Naziest people you can find on the planet.

          • ToucheGoodSirEnglish
            21·
            25 days ago

            Hexbearer no like because soviets also invaded Poland for some reason? Queue history lesson claiming the soviets had a non aggression pact with the Nazis and spit roasted Poland so they could ramp up their wartime industry to fight the Nazis

    • nednobbins@lemm.eeEnglish
      63·
      25 days ago

      “German WW2 soldier” is the term used by the Polish archaeologists who discovered the site. If they’re OK with it, the morality police can probably stand down.

      The article says that the coins likely belonged to the solider because they coincide with areas of likely deployment. The rest of the stuff was just in the area and there’s no suggestion the soldier even knew about it. They just stumbled on it by accident because they were investigating the soldier.

    • sik0fewl@lemmy.caEnglish
      53·
      25 days ago

      The Nazis were a political party and the article does not mention him being a part of the S.S.

      And to answer your second question - Nazi time travel.

    • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPMEnglish
      1·
      25 days ago

      Honestly, I do not doubt many things were pocketed while digging trenches. These do not look like looted items. Zzz, too sleepy.