[pierrem15]

There’s a big difference between being anti-Semitic and being willing to kill. The first group to put up placards denouncing German brutality towards Jews in Cracow was a right wing Catholic group that had called for Poles to boycott Jewish businesses before the war. If you read “Ordinary Men” about a German MP unit charged with liquidating Jews it’s quite clear that most Poles dragged their feet as much as possible to avoid helping the Germans, and many were shot for actively hiding them or helping Jews who were hiding. They may not have liked Jews, but they were not going to be accessories to murder if they could avoid it, and the Germans complained a lot about it.

[dfwgator]

Plus the Germans weren’t stupid. They knew if they gave any Pole a rifle to use as a camp guard, they knew the first thing the Poles would do with it is to shoot the Nazi bastards with it.

[dfwgator]

Polish-Jewish relations have always been a complex thing.

The Soviet-Puppet Communist regime didn’t help matters when they kicked out most of Poland’s remaining Jews in 1968 during the Anti-Zionist purge.

[Cronos]

The first group to put up placards denouncing German brutality towards Jews in Cracow was a right wing Catholic group that had called for Poles to boycott Jewish businesses before the war. If you read “Ordinary Men” about a German MP unit charged with liquidating Jews it’s quite clear that most Poles dragged their feet as much as possible to avoid helping the Germans, and many were shot for actively hiding them or helping Jews who were hiding. They may not have liked Jews, but they were not going to be accessories to murder if they could avoid it, and the Germans complained a lot about it.

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