Merkel ally Steinbach quits in row over blame for WWII

[minionofmidas]

Irrelevant. The BdV (leadership) has always been basically the Continuity NSDAP within the CDU btw, nothing special about Steinbach in that respect.
 

[minionofmidas]

Define "prewar". By 1939, fairly hostile out of necessity.
There's also the issue of the German minority in Poland - while the issue of the remaining Polish minority in Germany - actually rather larger - strangely disappeared from view entirely over the course of the 1920s and early 30s.

[minionofmidas]

Poland mobilised its military in March 1939 when Germany invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia, IIRC.

A small part of it, largely as a token gesture.

Given that Germany had just invaded two neighboring countries (Lithuania being the other) and were using quite threatening language against Poland all throughout... it was quite literally the least they could do.