To: Engedi
Poles, their best friend and neighbors would turn them in for food, for housing, for clothes because they needed to feed and house their families. When Jews got arrested, Poles were there cleaning out their houses for jewels, furniture, food, gardens, etc. That certainly happened. There is a sizable percentage in any population that will do immoral things to survive when conditions are harsh.
That's not to excuse those folks. Those folks are criminals. But, as I'm sure you'll agree, it's wrong to blame the Polish nation as a whole.
45 posted on
04/21/2015 5:54:10 PM PDT by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: Leaning Right
This is the same logic that the “Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!” crowd uses to wrongly imply that all cops have it out for black people.
46 posted on
04/21/2015 5:58:31 PM PDT by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does.)
To: Leaning Right; Engedi
In Lodz, where my wife is from, the Germans had to create a no-go zone around the walls surrounding the Jewish ghetto and stipulated that anyone found within it would be shot on sight.
Why? Because at least some Poles were throwing food and clothing over the wall, before the Germans starved them as well.
Unless you've talked to someone who survived WWII inside Poland, it's really hard to imagine the hell on earth the Germans created.
60 posted on
04/21/2015 7:04:45 PM PDT by
pierrem15
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