That killing of 42 innocentJews is indefensible - it was plain wrong.
But you shouldn't either club it with whathappened under Nutzi oppression nor use this one incident to label all Poles
What Gadrael points out is real enough -- and to say that there was no threat of discovery is wrong. The Germans could always find out - perhaps the Jews got caught and it was found they walked past your land and you didn't do anything?
I would not have liked to live in those times.
The Kielce pogrom, in my opinion, is more of a stain on the Polish people than you allow. If it had been a single person, it could be written off as something that does not indicate a wider social ill. But a whole town engaged in a pogrom and so soon after the whole world knew what happened to the Jews. I don’t condemn the whole Polish nation for it, nor change anything I’ve said to mitigate the undeserved “Polish Death Camp” label, but Kielce spoke about something deeper and wider in terms of Polish anti-Semitism still being an active force.