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Hungry was a member of the Axis powers. The Director could lump them with Italy, or France (Vichy). Poland's government, their only government, was headquartered in London. And early in raising the alarm about the slaughter of European Jews, only to be ignored. An to request bombing the rail lines, and dropping arms. To be ignored. I presume the Director missed European history in college. I hope he not only apologizes, but acknowledges his mistake. He should learn about abuse of authority on a breathtaking scale that in Poland it was Nazi authority.
You could chalk it up to stupidity or malice. I’ll go with stupidity, until more info comes out.
To reiterate, the Polish government was in exile in London.
Much of Poland was annexed into Germany proper, including Auschwitz. The rest of Poland was governed by the General Government, which was not a puppet regime, but governed Poland as a German colony. The ultimate plan was to exterminate the Poles and open the territory up for German colonization. This was Hitler's plan for "lebensraum."
Other occupied countries, such as Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, etc., were government by Nazi puppet regimes.
Most of the puppets cooperated to some extent in deportations to the death camps. Hungary resisted until a German coup resulted in a change of government in early 1944. In only a few short months over 400,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz under the personal direction of Adolph Eichmann, one of the most shameful events during that shameful time.
I think Comer should be sentenced to a day in the Museum.