Bratwurst Boy 8 | 11774
27 Jan 2010 #31
I really don't want to discuss this here with you...
There is enough material out there, for those who want to see that is...for those who don't no book or researched article will be enough.
You have along way to go still.
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/pole2jew.html
Not much changed till now, has it....
There is enough material out there, for those who want to see that is...for those who don't no book or researched article will be enough.
You have along way to go still.
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/pole2jew.html
....Shortly before his death in 1944, he entrusted the diary to a Polish friend. The document was eventually given to the Yad Vashem Archives. It was published in Hebrew in 1993 and in English in 1996.
I would like to characterize the attitudes of Poles toward Jews and, in general, toward the acts of extermination of Jews.
The lower classes of the townspeople as well as the peasants oriented themselves to which-ever way the wind was blowing. They understood that they had an opportunity to enrich themselves, one that came only in a great while.
One could pillage without penalty, steal, kill people, so that many using the slogan "now or never" got to work. They raised their hands to heaven, thankful for the favor that they had lived to see such times...
They considered themselves innocent. After all, the Germans were responsible.
I would like to characterize the attitudes of Poles toward Jews and, in general, toward the acts of extermination of Jews.
The lower classes of the townspeople as well as the peasants oriented themselves to which-ever way the wind was blowing. They understood that they had an opportunity to enrich themselves, one that came only in a great while.
One could pillage without penalty, steal, kill people, so that many using the slogan "now or never" got to work. They raised their hands to heaven, thankful for the favor that they had lived to see such times...
They considered themselves innocent. After all, the Germans were responsible.
Not much changed till now, has it....
"The one and immortal favor by the Germans toward the Poles is the fact that they had cleansed her of Jews."
....
One has to look truth squarely in the eye.
Jews perished first of all because they didn't realize in time what level German cruelty and barbarism would reach.
They were well aware, however, of the vileness of some Poles. They knew what it was that closed before them the gates of the Polish neighborhood and forced them to wait in the ghetto for the near and inevitable sentence of death.
One has to look truth squarely in the eye.
Jews perished first of all because they didn't realize in time what level German cruelty and barbarism would reach.
They were well aware, however, of the vileness of some Poles. They knew what it was that closed before them the gates of the Polish neighborhood and forced them to wait in the ghetto for the near and inevitable sentence of death.