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To: buck jarret
I was referring to the association that some people make between prewar Poland and what the Nazis did, that the political conflicts between Jews and Gentiles somehow mirrored what came later in the war.

That's not entirely fair, since the war and the Germans changed the environment radically, but you do find people taking political conflicts before the war as a prelude to the Holocaust, rather than something that under other circumstances would have resolved over time.

I was also pointing out that violence against Jewish escapees who took up with partisans was often a result of political conflict between various factions, rather than ethnic violence.

I don't think you can draw quite as emphatic a line as you'd like. A guerrilla outfit that did kill Jews might have other victims as well, and many of them also quite as innocent.

424 posted on 06/24/2008 4:21:22 PM PDT by x
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To: x

Violence against Jews by partisans and other Poles wasn’t their main agenda, but nor was it “political” in nature. It was the result of an antipathy against Jews in Poland that originated long before the 1939 invasion. I never suggested that guerrillas or partisans didn’t have non-Jewish victims.


425 posted on 06/24/2008 5:17:21 PM PDT by buck jarret
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