Posted on 01/30/2019 3:55:31 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Hitler's Germany was responsible for the Holocaust, not the Nazis, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Sunday, as Poland marked 74 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
"Hitler's Germany fed on fascist ideology... But all the evil came from this (German) state and we cannot forget that, because otherwise we relativise evil..."
"The Polish state acts as the guardian of the truth, which must not be relativised in any way."
"I want to make a promise here to (preserve) the complete truth about that era," he added, in a speech in the southern city of Oswiecim to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Sunday's ceremony at Auschwitz was attended by a number of former prisoners at the camp.
Morawiecki's speech comes after last year's row over a Polish law that made it illegal to accuse the Polish nation or state of complicity in Nazi German crimes.
After protests from Israel and the US, Poland amended the law to remove the possibility of fines or a prison sentence.
Morawiecki appeared to be responding to an idea often mentioned in Poland, which claims that historians try to attribute responsibility for the genocide of Jews exclusively to the Nazis, without recalling the role played by the German state and Germans as a nation.
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It’s called an “analogy.”
It is called a perfect analogy.
I’m afraid I don’t agree that evil is an aberration. I think it has been an ever present force in mankind for as long as mankind has existed. Those who recognize and oppose evil have to stand down for evil to flourish ... and every so often, throughout history, they do.
A significant part of the Polish people are STILL antisemitic.
Every country in Europe was anti-semitic, even the US.
Poland is singled out, simply because they had the most Jews in Europe.
But if Poles were so anti-semitic, why did so many Jews settle there over the centuries?
Wrong, unlike Ukrainians, there were no Polish guards at the Death Camps. Yes, there were some isolated incidents, which were regrettable. But there were many "Righteous Gentiles", who risked not only their lives, but the lives of their entire family in order to help hide Jews.
Point is not that the Poles were more antisemitic than other Europeans. Point is they were not the completely innocent victims in the Holocaust of the Jews as they seem to like to portray themselves today.
The 303rd Kosciuszko Squadron, Enigma, Monte Cassino, among other things.
Poles never stopped fighting the Nazis, and many continued the fight against the Bolsheviks, even after the war.
Who said they were completely innocent?
But there was no “Vichy Poland”?
Were The Netherlands innocent? Somebody there betrayed Anne Frank and her family, and they had the highest rate of volunteers for the Waffen SS for any occupied country. Yet nobody calls The Netherlands an “Anti-Semitic Country”.
And yet somehow, Austria, birthplace of Hitler, and home of many of the most radical Nazis, somehow gets a pass.
Again...wrong! The Nazis suffered a humiliating defeat in the last free election. Hitler was appointed Chancellor, and through imtimidation engineered a coup to seize control of the German government.
Yes, those were the parts of Poland that were occupied by the Soviets in 1939. Many Poles were killed, or exiled to Siberia, and many blamed the Jews for that. Not to excuse what happened, but it does explain perhaps why some Poles did what they did. And the Germans were more than happy to exploit that. However, the Poles cooperation with the Nazis, paled in comparison with that of the Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians and Lithuanians. Again....NOT ONE POLE served as a guard at the Death Camps. The Nazis knew better than to give a Pole a rifle, knowing the Pole would use it right away on the German if given a chance.
Also Poles had to deal with Stepan Bandera and his Ukrainian thugs, who murdered over 100,000 ethnic Poles during the War.
No.It’s called ‘’moral idiocy’’.
That’s true. It’s been said that Austrians were even more anti-Semitic than the Germans!
In fact, many times the German Nazis had to tell the Austrian Nazis to tone it down.
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