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 == It's a catch 22 == 

 You see, when you call ... some of those people from just west of Poland in 1939-1945 ... ""Nazis"" you're violating Godwin's Law. If you call them ""Germans"" or ""German soldiers"" then you're being an evil nationalistic Pole who supposedly thinks that all Germans were Nazis. What you're SUPPOSED to do is keep your mouth shut and just not bring the subject up in (im)polite company.  "