Interestingly, the only "manifesto" I could turn up (in an admittedly cursory search) was from last March or so and is extremely anodyne in what it actually says.

It's really just pandering to the base. But this is a total hotbutton issue for the Poles, so I'm not surprised that the Telegraph dateline is Poland and not Germany.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

As I usually say, if some German aristocrats want the old manor back, they need just go to Poland and buy it.

But that costs money, and shouldn't the Germans be compensated for having their homes expropriated 60 years ago?

No. When a person commits a crime, he is punished. The same is true for nations. The expropriation can well be considered a fine on a national scale.

And the fact of the matter is that Germans are much richer than Poles, so it shouldn't be terribly expensive to buy the old places back. The fact that it's not happening en masse shows that this issue is mainly hot air.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.