“Poland” didn’t exist at the time, as they were a captive territory.
Look up “Bloody Sunday” sometime, State Dept.
The FBI director Comey said a very stupid thing. Besides, what was the context that he would find it necessary to defend the indefensible?
The US Ambassador to Warsaw had to apologize for him, of course. Even Obama must have said, “Please do”.
Many Poles were SLAVE LABOR in the concentration camps and other places..
and saw many things..
Yeah, Polish anti-Semitism didn’t exist. (Heavy sarcasm)
http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/112448/holocaust-writer-grabowski-faces-polish-fury
The truth is that almost every Nazi occupied nation helped murder their Jewish neighbors. Some like the French and the Dutch did it with gusto. But they love to make the holocaust a “German only” event. It wasn’t.
Just have Harf clear this up.
Talk about a JV Team, that describes our State Department to a T.
So he was there? He spoke to the people in those countries during the war? Personally I have spoken with my Grandparents and parents who actually did live through the war in Hungary and the stories my Mother told of the Jewish children they used to play with until they were threatened with beatings by the German soldiers and the pain they felt when the Jews were taken away. This A$$hat is so obviously a obama minion and complete moron having no clue what the common citizen went through war and that they subject to the same fate as the Jews if they weren't careful.
One of the survivors of the Sobibor concentration camp revolt went back to his Polish village after the war and was killed in a pogrom. Alan Arkin played this person, who was the head of the revolt, in a very good film, Sobibor, available for streaming. The doumentary Shoah also shows troubling interviews with Poles who took over the houses and possessions of their Jewish neighbors who were deported to the camps. Many Jews who escaped to the forests after the revolts at Treblinka and Sobibor were killed by Polish partisans.
Martin’s brother? /obscure
Sounds like just another islamist facilitator in the American government to me. ALL under the enemy islamist in Chief.
An Obama idiot... go figure.
What gets lost is that he did not say Poland or Poles,
he said “the murderers and accomplices of...”
So he was only referring to those individuals who did collaborate in the genocide - not the public or the Government. He was talking about how people rationalize heinous acts - it is a psychological study of criminal behavior, for which the FBI is famous.
I admit that I read his excerpt several times, before I realized that he was specifically talking about collaborators, and not all of Poland. It jumps out at you when you hear “Germany or Poland”, like they were on par.
So in the USA we have freedom of speech and of the press. So the Polish can go piss up a Poll!
Don’t the idiots sent to represent our country know even a little bit of European history.
The dirty little secret of WWII was that almost every country on the planet had Nazi sympathizers and many of those sent entire divisions to fight for the Nazis- French, Ukrainian, Yugoslav, Bulgarian, Albanian, Dutch, Belgian, Arab, all wearing Wehrmacht uniforms, with a number of SS foreign battalions included.
The pool of collaborators, sympathisers and 5th columnists that these fighting troops were taken from often survived the war and constituted the hard right anti-communist Cold Warriors of the 1950’s. Yah, that’s right, in spite of the current weak headed revisionist tendency here on FR to wash their hands by claiming that the Nazi’s were “socialists”. Don’t make me laugh.
In the US, we had the German American Bund, and overtly Nazi political party. My dad was an America First Society member (”Keep America out of the war”) and a closet Nazi, unrepentant his entire life, lectured me often on the evils of black people moving into neighborhoods and bringing property values down. He voted Republican. My mom was Italian American and her family and friends were all fascisti. And we piss and moan here on FR about the lefties controlling academia, entertainment, media, news, etc. without once copping to the fact that fascist conservatism was defeated and we are part of that defeat even if we manage to anesthetize ourselves from the facts of our history as “conservatives”. This is why I am a libertarian with anarchist overtones.
The Nazi ubermensch game plan is alive and well in corporate and populist America. Read Anthony Sutton’s “Wall St. and the Rise of Hitler” and hundreds of similar books about monopoly capitalism’s seque into state capitalism and fascism. Too big to fail is Nazi, period.
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Hungry was a member of the Axis powers. The Director could lump them with Italy, or France (Vichy). Poland's government, their only government, was headquartered in London. And early in raising the alarm about the slaughter of European Jews, only to be ignored. An to request bombing the rail lines, and dropping arms. To be ignored. I presume the Director missed European history in college. I hope he not only apologizes, but acknowledges his mistake. He should learn about abuse of authority on a breathtaking scale that in Poland it was Nazi authority.
Wouldn't it be nice if, instead of the usual sorry I offended anyone apology someone acknowledged they were wrong.