You seem to think some heroic action on the Poles' part could have changed things: you're forgetting that over 600,000 non-Jewish Poles died in the same death camps as the Jews-- if they couldn't save themselves, how do you expect them to have saved the Jews?
I’m not forgetting that....
Again...the neighboring communities knew all to well what was happening in these camps....they could have , unless they were ok with it, sent ambassadors to the World Body at that time. They could have left the country and gone to those who could do something about it.
The problem was it was all kept “secret” ....
If you were a judge, how would you assess the “responsibility” of these people for what happened in the world between 1933 and 1945?
1 — Not responsible
2 — Minimally responsible
3 — Responsible
4 — Very responsible
1. One of Hitler’s direct subordinates, such as Heinrich Himmler or Joseph Goebbels
2. A German who voluntarily joined Hitler’s special elite, the SS
3. A German industrialist who financially supported Hitler’s rise to power and
continued to support him verbally
4. A judge who carried out Hitler’s decrees for sterilization of the “mentally
incompetent” and internment of “traitors”
5. A doctor who participated in sterilization of Jews
6. A worker in a plant making Zyklon B gas
7. The Pope, who made no public statement against Nazi policy
8. An industrialist who made enormous profits by producing Zyklon B gas
9. A manufacturer who used concentration camp inmates as slave labor in his plants
10. An American industrialist who helped arm Hitler in the 1930s
11. A person who voluntarily joined the Nazis in the 1930s
12. A person who agreed to publicly take the Civil Servant Loyalty Oath (swearing
eternal allegiance to Adolf Hitler in 1934)
13. A person who complied with the law excluding Jews from economic and social life
14. A person who regularly, enthusiastically attended Hitler rallies