Expellees museum stirs up fears among Poles

The conservative newspaper Rzeczpospolita comments on the possible appointment of Erika Steinbach, president of the Federation of Expellees and an MP for Germany's Christian Democratic Party (CDU), to the board of the Centre Against Expulsions museum in Berlin: "Erika Steinbach doesn't even have the right to identify with the fate of the Germans who were forced to leave the northern areas that were granted to Poland at the Potsdam Conference. She is the daughter of an officer of the German occupying forces and was born in Rumia – a Polish city that was incorporated into the Third Reich by the Nazis following the invasion of 1939. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the coalition between the CDU and the Social Democratic Party have had many months to sort out this matter. The Christian Democratic Party to which Erika Steinbach belongs has had ample political opportunity to remove the boss of the homeland association from this project, which even without her presence is already stirring up enough fears among millions of Poles."

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