Friday, June 12, 2009

Poland

Today was the German-Polish day. We traveled from Leipzig to Frankfurt (the small one on the Polish border, not the big one in the middle).

We visited a universities here and on the Polish side to hear talks about what the universities do and more specifically German and Polish versions of the German-Polish relations.
A quick summary - they have a 'strained' history, the Germans killed lots of Poles, both the Germans and Poles resettled many people into this region, the border has been closed for a long time, and is now completely open. They get along (sort of) now, but they are not on the best of terms.

Tomorrow - Berlin, again.

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