Holocaust Museum spokesman attacked the Poles. “They helped … – Dziennik.pl

Post head of the FBI about the fact that Poles and Hungarians share responsibility for the Holocaust, unleashed a political storm in Poland. Now pour oil on the fire spokesman Holocaust Museum in Washington. Andrew Hollinger notes in an article at the institution that, although during the Second World War, many of the conquered nations of Europe formed a guerrilla war, however, the aim of the resistance movement was not assistance Jews. And, although some people risked their lives to save Jews, they were in the minority. Germany would never have murdered six million Jews and millions of other people in four years, without the help of collaborators – says the spokesman.

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Hollinger believes that even before 1939 in Poland grew anti-Semitism , and authorities tried to exclude Jews from key sectors of society, and some politicians they wanted to Jews emigrated from Polish.

The author of the text first describes the German brutality against the Poles. In 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union divided Poland in 1941 after the German invasion Soviet , all of Poland was under their control. The occupation was extremely brutal – writes. The Nazis regarded Poles as subhuman. They wanted to eliminate the authority of the country, killing thousands of priests, intellectuals, teachers and politicians. More than 1.5 million Poles have been sent to forced labor, and at least 2.5 million people were murdered – adds.

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But then attacks the behavior of Poles during the occupation. In his view, when the Germans tried to introduce his plan the “final solution” is forced to work Polish governmental agencies, like the police or navy blue railwaymen . They answered, writes a museum spokesman for shipments Jewish to the death camps and ghettos for guarding throughout the country. According to the author, it also then Poles helped identify, denounce and hunt for hidden Jews, Jews were often blackmailed, or plundered their wealth .

Hollinger also mentions incidents in the eastern Polish where residents who knew about the proceedings of the Germans toward the Jews, either alone device, or took part in pogroms and the murder of their neighbors. The best example is what happened in Jedwabne – assesses.

The author recalls, however, that the government in London tried to organize help for the Jews – even called Żegota , which saved a few thousand people, although for hiding a Jew was threatened when the death penalty. Therefore, writes Righteous Among the Nations in Poland was more than in the rest of conquered Europe.

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