Glen Beck is a frickin’ idiot. People still listen to his dumb a**?
This brave and righteous woman, Irena Sendler, lost out on a Nobel Prize to Algore. For that arrogant SOB Gore to smugly take the Nobel instead of graciously turning it down so Mrs. Sendler can much more deservedly accept it tells me more than ever that Gore is lower than whale sh!t. But then again ever since Yassir Arafart received one I’ve always thought the WWE championship belt has more legitimacy than the Nobel.
Good luck with Beck.
He's a bit like soetoro. Messiah complex, thinks he's smarter than the rest of us.
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Very interesting history. Thanks for posting.
Jewish history ping.
I would add one point
A lot of the charges of Polish complicity were started in the west by the British and US governments in order to placate their "ally" Uncle Joe. This made it easier for the betrayal of the Polish heroes. The Poles were made complicit, so they really should be under the Soviets.
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Glenn Beck should not apologize. Poland should apologize instead.
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Mixed feelings on Poland. Even after WW2, Poland was not safe for Jews:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/07/AR2010060702583.html
One would think the anti-semitism in Europe ended after WW2 ended (or at least the mass killings of Jews), but that was not the case.
Thank you Mr. Russell.
My late father-in-law fought as a 17 year old in the Home Army in the Warsaw Uprising of 44 and was taken prisoner for the duration of the war. Fortunately, his POW camp was liberated by the British. He ended up working for the Americans guarding a portion of the American sector of occupied Germany and eventually came to the U.S. as a displaced person in 1949.
In fact, the AK was the first to liberate a Jewish camp known as the goose farm.
Not enough is widely known about the conditions of Poles during and after the war, their many sacrifices and their continual love for America despite the fact that we gave their sovereign Nation to the Russians.
Thank you for speaking up on their behalf.
My head almost popped off, and my Polish dad's would have too, were he still with us. Half of his family was wiped out in the war.
Having been raised Catholic, at least nominally, and having converted to Mormonism in adulthood, Glenn has an anti-Catholic bias.
The most insulting thing I've heard him say was his praise for "the young generation of Christians" who are now working to tell the true story of the Holocaust, or something like that.
Is Glenn unaware that Poland is 98% Catholic? Are these the Christians he's talking about? Or are they Mormon misionaries enlightening the benighted Poles? Does he know that as many Catholics were murdered by the Nazis as Jews?
Despite Glenn's apalling ignorance, I still cut him slack since he's a recovering alcoholic who seems to have a high regard for truth, however mistaken he can be at times.
Bttt and Thank You
Thank you , Bill, for a comprehensive, professional and well documented robust response to Glenn Beck’s display of ignorance and lack of research.
Your detailed catalog of facts and considered & balanced truth-telling is a very useful one-stop-shop for many of us who are fighting the all-too-frequent appearances of anti-Polish comment and sentiment.
I am one of those, via the Polish Media Issues (PMI) Group, who do not wish to let the Nazi German, Soviet Russian, and other propagandists get away with present-day slandering and libelling of the heroic, and literally death-defying, achievements of Poland and Poles during, and after, WWII.