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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“The Poles had a lot on their minds when the Holocaust was going on, but they knew what was going on. By his standard, they’re equally guilty.”
Yep. The wankers couldn’t be bothered to call 911.
“the Nazi invasion”
What’s “the Nazi invasion” ?
“The day after the massacre, they went to the local butcher shop, and the butcher was chuckling and joking about the Jews’ massacre.”
So the sob later went to America and spend his life throwing mud at the people, who saved his ass ? Well, quite typical...
So, you stand with that butcher and hate the Jews, good to now.
Some did, yes, but not a "significant portion" even of the anti-semitic Poles
That’s false. There are plenty of “real men” in Germany. it’s been 70 years since the war. Germany recovered enough in the 20 years after World War One to field “real men” in World War 2
Correct — he said the German state.
For German civilians and soldiers they saw that all their armies were on foreign soil and suddenly they are declared losers? It was incomprehensible. So the "stab in the back" theory
World War 2 ended iwth Germany crushed right down to the gates of Berlin.
The Germans understood that war is hell
the same with the Japanese -- they now understand the hell their armies unleashed on others and won't undertake it again.
*Sigh* we always have to deal with this crap.
Yes. the director did a good job of being impartial - showing the faults of the Poles as well. But Bandera’s boys were monsters.
I saw “Cold War” too, it should get the Oscar for best Foreign Picture.
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