Posted on 05/01/2022 3:00:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
On April 28, 2022, a meeting took place at the former site of Auschwitz. The president of Poland, Andrzej Duda, right-wing politician, joined in the March of the Living with Holocaust survivors and 2,000 others at a ceremony on Israel's National Holocaust memorial day, and laid a wreath at the Death Wall in Auschwitz. He commented on the parallel with present-day events. Just as Adolf Hitler was acting to wipe out all Jews, as well as many Poles and Roma, so the war criminal Vladimir Putin is trying to kill and eliminate the Ukrainian people. The Russian forces were committing genocide in Ukraine.
The meeting reinforces the present formidable role of Poland in the face of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. It is surprising for at least three reasons. As recently as 2018, a Polish law was passed making it illegal to accuse the Polish nation of complicity in the Holocaust and other Nazi German atrocities. The evidence is mixed. Though some acts of violence were committed by Poles against Jews during World War II, and antisemitism was widespread in the population, there was no significant anti-Jewish mass movement engaged in killings or responsible for the Holocaust.
A second surprise is that Poland, which, in May 2021, was reprimanded by the European Court of Justice for judicial changes that were in breach of European law, should now be playing an important and forthright, if not the leading, role among Europeans in opposing Russian aggression. Poland can rightfully be called a key player in the struggle to free Europe from Putin's objectives for two reasons. It has been the European country continuing to supply Ukraine with key military support.
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Hitlers final solution was targeted against all non-aryan races. It wasn’t just Jews, his forces founded up and executed slaves, Gypsies, Romanians, Ukrainians, and yes Russians. Over 3/4 of Russian POWs never returned from captivity.
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