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[edit] Whitewashing

You've got to know that whenever you try to rewrite history and downplay these things, I'm going to be right in there expanding and clarifying.

"In 1920 due to return of Polish provinces to Poland, the Commission ceaased to function. Subsequently, most of German settlers returned to Germany."

Leaving out the role of the war ending, and making it sound like the surviving German land owners just got bored and drifted off is definately whitewashing.

[edit] Events after 1918

I am of the opinion that the article should not mention events that happened after 1918, that is after the Commission ceased to function. The article contains descriptions of events such as: 1. Nazi expulsions and other Nazi crimes, 2. post-WW2 expulsions of Germans, 3. restitution claims. These events are not direct results of the actions of the Commission. This is not an article about Polish-German relations throughout centuries. I am of the opinion that this information does not belong to this article.

[edit] How to allege something in a subtle way: Category Anti-Polonism and what it implies

"Categories appear without annotations, so be careful of NPOV when creating or filling categories. Unless it is self-evident and uncontroversial that something belongs in a category, it should not be put into a category," says the Wikipedia guideline WP:CG.
Anti-Polonism is defined as "irrational fear or malicious hostility toward Poles". A wiki category implies that one thing is part of another, which means that the Settlement Commission had anti-polonistic aims.
I doubt that, for the simple reason that German nationalism is not necessarily anti-Polonism. If you support your team in a soccer match, are you anti-the other team? No, you simply want YOUR team to win. So I highly doubt that Bismarck, who you can judge as so Pro-German that when it comes to deciding whether Germany or Poland should have an advantage he'd prefer Germany, was anti-Polonistic and have therefore removed the category Anti-Polonism since it is at best controversial, at worst a misinterpretation, at any rate a case where the guideline above says it should be deleted.NightBeAsT 14:44, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Bismarcks speech was given to you in which he explains his actions are aimed against Poles.Of course you deleted it as soon as it was posted.

--Molobo 17:25, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

And an answer to it you can find on Talk:Kulturkampf and on my talk page.NightBeAsT 17:37, 1 September 2005 (UTC)