Footballers improve German-Polish relations

Germany plays against Greece today in the 2012 quarter finals in Gdańsk. Stefan Szczepłek, sports editor for the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita, takes a conciliatory view of the past tensions between Germans and Poles: "The German footballers have done much good for the image of their country. ... Today our children's generation watches them play without the burden of the past. Early yesterday morning the editor of the [German sport magazine] Kicker, Rainer Holzschuh, visited my football exhibition in Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science. We've known each other for many years, and many tournaments. Standing amidst the jerseys of Franz Beckenbauer, Jürgen Klinsmann, Uli Hoeneß, Kazimierz Dayna, Robert Gadocha and Grzegorz Lato we looked back with a grin at the times when we still met each other with mistrust. That's how it was back then, but those days are over."

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