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Didn't that only end up strengthening their resolve to resist Germanisation?

Poor Poland...Everybody hates them, everybody wants to rule over them. It's impressive how their language and cultural identity survived so far.
Even Scotland after 300 year of colonization succumb and wants to remain a part of the UK.

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Indeed. Bismarck's clumsy persecution of Poles invigorated the Polish resistance. It also made Silesians and Kashubians, previously wavering, committed to the Polish cause.

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>"If the British Army landed in Europe, I'd get the Belgian police to arrest them."

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Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!