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Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]
@Lyzko
You have got to be kidding me. There was no such conspiracy between poles and Nazis to kill jews and establish concentration camps. If poles did help build such camps its because an ss guy was ready to shoot them immediately if they refused to comply.
Here are several facts:
1. Polish people have the most 'righteous among the gentile' awards from yad vashem for saving the lives of jews
2. Poland was bombed to oblivion. Approximately the same amount of poles died as polish Jews within polish territory - roughly 3 mil poles died while the Jewish count in Poland is closer to 2.7 mil (according to wiki its literally one of the first sentences when searching for Nazi crimes against poland/ Nazi invasion of Poland.
3. The armia krawoja was one of the largest if not the largest underground army
4. The uprising in Warsaw was the largest insurgency in ww2 in Nazi occupied territory
5. There is very few attacks committed by poles against Jews. The most famous is jedwabne in which around 100 200 Jews died. A tiny number compared to the overall deaths of both poles and Jews.
6. Aushwitz held both poles and Jews. Saint max Kolbe perished there. He lived for nearly a month in a starvation bunker and still shared his tiny ration with fellow prisoners which wouldve undoubtedly been Jews.
7. Nazi Germany invaded Austria without a shot fired - the total opposite happened in Poland.
8. Poland was where most of Europe's Jews lived so it simply made logistical sense to open up concentration camps closest to the people the nazis were trying to exterminate.
9. Poland was the 1st country the nazis invaded - technically 2nd if you count czechy although the allies pretty much gave him part of the country but he felt like invading the rest anyway.
Then to top it off the Soviets invaded Poland and it became a commie nation for the next 50 years. Soviets and Jews were in charge of all the highest ministries and nearly half of the security services positions were occupied by Jews following the war. People such as michniks brother sentenced scores of polish ak patriots to death. While many Jews were keen to exact revenge on poles and do the Soviets bidding because for whatever reason they believed poles didn't do enough, eventually the Soviets started arresting and killing them too for not falling in line with soviet agendas.