Well...sorry...when you talk about "hot headed Poles" as a reason not to go after the criminals what else do you want us to believe?
That no trustworthy person in Poland could be found to take the job either???
Who? Solidarity was divided from the outset between workers and intellectuals, and the divide was much bigger than was commonly reported at the time. Even today - you can see just how big that gap really was.
If they had chosen a "worker" to open the files, then he undoubtably would have been possessed with the idea of revenge. If they had chosen an intellectual, he would have been more interested in driving the country forward than revenge. It's a gross simplification, but at the end of the day, there was no one figure that people could have united around.
So why all this talk? Do you think Nazi crimes should had gone unpunished too?
Many of them did. Don't forget that the Wirtschaftswunder partially used Nazi experience. If West Germany failed to thoroughly implement anti-nazification, what hope would post-Communist Poland have? The West German example showed us that you need to keep experienced individuals in their jobs.
In the case of the former East Germany, it was flooded by Wessies. Isn't it common knowledge that the West Germans effectively took over many institutions - meaning that
they could do a complete purge, because the Wessies were in charge anyway?
Well..so was persecuting Nazis and Holocaust mass murderer...your point being?
It's an interesting legal point, that's all. But - as I recall - the Federal Republic claimed continuity with the Third Reich - whereas it never accepted the legitimacy of the DDR. The Nuremburg Trials could therefore arguably be held under the jurisdiction of a successor state, whereas the post-DDR trials weren't. But it's just legal theory.
How so?
In Poland? Well - look at what happened in the symbolic industries represented by Solidarity. Solidarity managers drove the shipyards into the ground, they drove Ciegelski in Poznan into the ground, they're driving the mines into the ground - it proves that they didn't have the experience to run things on a bigger level. Even Mazowiecki's government called in the foreign experts rather than relying on non-Communist Poles.
