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To: USview

There were ‘collaborators’ in each of the nations the Nazis occupied...the cooperation of others in the occupied countries was essential to carry out their deathly, murderous project....Additionally many Jews also informed on, profited from, and assisted in murdering, their fellow Jews. But ‘the War and program to rid Europe of all Jews’... was and remains entirely at the feet of Nazi Germany.

Polish citizens were not exempt from that collaboration....though they certainly have sensitivities when anyone mentions so. I get what Poland as a whole did and suffered....but there were plenty enough who assisted none the less.....I will not give them a free pass who did.


130 posted on 04/24/2015 4:46:09 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww; USview; St_Thomas_Aquinas; Cronos
This is a walk-back, from your earlier position, which was that the Polish at large were complicit in the Holocaust. However, it is still an unjustified opinion for two simple reasons:

It relies on the assumption that the Polish people knew what was going on in the camps the Germans built in their territory, and your own myth that they could have done something about it.

I can accept the first assumption. Hundreds of thousands of Poles certainly did know what was going on in the camps, because they were there dying themselves. It is also plausible that others, outside of the camps, knew or suspected what was going on. But, as Cronos has comprehensively pointed out, the Poles were in no position to act or change the course of history. Nevertheless, many tried, and died or ended up in the camps themselves.

It is of course true, that in any sample of people you will find some truly evil individuals. So, no doubt, there were some Poles who actively sided with the Germans. Just like there were some Jews who, for whatever reason, did so as well.

But that's not what we are talking about here. The director of the FBI specifically grouped the Poles with the Germans and Hungarians in his statement. That is the issue here. He was wrong to do so, and you are wrong to continue defending this Obama appointee on this conservative website.

131 posted on 04/26/2015 1:42:24 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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