[presidio9]

1.9 million

That's the number of non-Jewish Poles who died in the Holocaust.

We already knew that Richard Cohen was an ass. So is James Comey, apparently.

Sure, there were Poles who were complicit in Germany's crimes. Just like there were black people who owned slaves prior to the Civil War. At least in its initial stages, there were, no doubt, misguided Jews who willingly collaborated with the Nazis.

None of this means that they belong in the same sentence with the true perpetrators. The ones in power.

[caww]

Baloney!.....Don't play down Polands role in this or any other country that went along to get along with the Nazi's...and I speak of the citizenship...not just the leaders.

Further you cannot at all compare the Holocaust to the black slave trade. Not even close...the Holocaust was a brutal and deadly systematic annihilation of a people. You must understand that when people willingly follow a leader and it's ideology they will do what they never thought possible they would to save their own skin. The Germans knew...and so did the Poles the camps were there and what they were doing...it was no secret.

How many camps were there in Poland alone.....you simply cannot have that camps without the people's awareness, both in the host country as well as neighboring....

[dfwgator]

Sure, there were Poles who were complicit in Germany's crimes.

We can play that game and say that there were Jews who were complicit in the Soviet Union's Crimes when they occupied their portion of Poland.

What does playing that game accomplish?

[Cronos]

To Caww — a reminder, this starts with your post 26 “don’t play down...” — this debate we are having is about the fact that no-one is playing down that some Poles were despicable people who perpetrated violence against Jews, but what IS wrong is to blame all Poles of that generation for what the Nazi Germans did