BdV's Steinbach upsets delegates at Warsaw conference

Erika Steinbach, head of the League of Expelled Germans (BdV), took part in a discussion on her idea of creating a Center Against Expulsion in Berlin. Steinbach disregarded Polish concerns that emergence of the Center may hurt Polish-German relations. She underlined that the BdV did not intend to falsify history and admitted that no resettlement of the Germans, would take place without previous politics adopted by Adolf Hitler. Steinbach also claimed that the center would commemorate all war refugees, not only those of German origin. Most of the Polish participants at the debate found Steinbach's arguments untrustworthy or unconvincing. Marcin Libicki from PiS said that BdV resembles a criminal showing off his minor wounds resulting from the victim's self-protection. Donald Tusk (PO) appealled for Steinbach to resign from creating the Center for sake of reconciliation. Members of the Bundestag, who took part in the discussion, underlined that the BdV does not speak for the whole of Germany. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A2, A3, A4)