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I had an interesting conversation with a Polish survivor of WWII. He had been an officer in the Polish underground, commissioned at age 16 or 17, I forget. He was an accomplished linguist, and said it was an important skill for him to survive the war.
I asked about people hiding Jews, and he recounted a story of a family of Poles that hid a family of Jews all through the NAZI occupation. When the Russians occupied the town, the Jews went out, and immediately denounced the family that had saved them, as anti-communists (the Jews saved were Communists). The family of Poles was immediately arrested (they were probably sent to the gulag or shot).
Of course it cannot be confirmed. But I heard several of his stories, and they all hung together rather well.
He's being euphemistic: the Germans turned Poland into a human slaughterhouse.
The death camps for the Jews were obviously the worst sites, but there is almost no town you can see in Poland that doesn't have plaques on the streets commemorating the places where Poles were executed in German reprisals.
As a young girl, my mother-in-law was forced to watch 300 people be machine gunned. She said once that she could never have imagined seeing human blood run like water in the gutters.