Posted on 11/20/2007 7:30:56 PM PST by Konrad_PL
A joke that aired on the new Fox television show "Back to You" suggesting that Poles are Nazi collaborators has enraged some Polish Americans. They are calling for the owner of Fox, Rupert Murdoch, to apologize.
The chairman of the Polish American Congress's anti-bigotry committee, Frank Milewski, said he wrote a letter in response to the episode calling on Mr. Murdoch to meet with Polish Christians who survived Nazi concentration camps and Poles who have been honored by Israel for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust.
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Joe Kennedy was Polish?
3, one to climb ladder and hold the bulb and two to turn the ladder!
But wasn't this one supposed to be at the expense of the oafish sports guy, who was totally clueless about history?
Sounds like the character who made the statement is an Archie Bunker-type who offends everybody. But, this is not the 70s Toto.
I am 1/4 Polish and this is just over the line. My Great-Grandfather came here in the 1890’s and when the war broke out, as he later told my father, his relatives were terrified to go West to the Nazis but they couldn’t go East either. The invading Soviet army was just as brutal, a very little recounted part of WWII history.
This is strange. Why target the Poles as Nazi collaborators?
Guess that the left hates Poland for being courageous to dump the Soviet Union.
Some Poles were Nazi collaborators, of course, but quite probably fewer than any other occupied country.
Not necessarily because Poles were superior human beings, but because Poland and Poles were singled out by the Nazis for special oppression. They weren’t given the option of collaboration, for the most part.
a lots of Jews (and some on this forum sadly) seem to think the Poles were in favor of the NAZIs. Of course that is absurd, but bigots are bigots.
I agree, I am a Polish-American, and I’ll even tell the occasional Polish joke or two, but I will not stand for anything that besmirches the honor of the brave Poles, who stood up to the Nazis at Westerplatte, and fought in the RAF, and at Monte Cassino.
Poland was the only Nazi-occupied country where aiding Jews in any matter was an automatic death sentence for the entire family of those who were aiding the Jews.
Next to Jews, no one suffered more during WW-2 than Poles. I didn’t hear the “joke” but wonder about their taste.
Missed that episode. Sounds bad.
And the Poles got it from both the Nazis and the Soviets.
Maybe because the Poles are our strong allies in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Poles also fought valiantly before they were overwhelmed.
Polish mathematicians provided the key information that allowed the British to read German Enigma traffic.
All people who love freedom have to feel a debt to Poland. I have absolutely no Slavic heritage, fwiw.
He could have substituted just about any other european nation (except england) and been correct. Ukraine, Denmark, France, Albania, Hungary, Italy, etc., all raised Waffen-SS divisions for Germany. Poland did not.
Our friends in Poland support the war on terror. Naturally the hollywood libs want to paint them as nazis.
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