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Originally Posted by Tom Lennox 70
Everyone here knows I'm pro-Semitic but Poland doesn't have to pay reparations since they're not responsible for the Holocaust. That would be like asking African countries to pay slavery reparations for the actions of European slavers on their soil.
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They certainly didn't refuse to do the rounding up, killing and robbery of the good stuff from their fellow countrymen....granted, we are not talking about ALL poles, but a hefty amount of them!
One would think honorable folks like you might refuse to build crematoriums or refuse to join the Police Force and round up Jews...but, based on the above, it seems you might do it and think "well, it's not my fault...I had no choice".....
One of these things is not like the other. The Jews had Pole take over their homes and businesses....free. Homes and businesses and other material possessions that took generations to build up.
Surely you know that blame and/or responsibility is assigned by percentages?? You must also know that some Poles (of German extraction) welcomed the Nazis.
"It was significant that the
Polish government-in-exile knew about it and Prime Minister general Władysław Sikorski
accepted participation (in the German military). A quarter of Silesian and Kashubian men (Polish lands) of that time served in the Wehrmacht."
"Historian John Connelly wrote that the
vast majority of ethnic Poles showed indifference to the fate of the Jews; and that "Polish historiography has hesitated to view complicity in the Holocaust of Jews as collaboration... [instead viewing it] as a form of society's 'demoralization'"
We can project that many of us would have been scared and cowards ourselves. And we can point to the Polish Resistance, etc.
But there is no doubt that many Poles, through indifference or inaction or ACTION, contributed to the Holocaust.
Using the same "logic" most Germans, of course, had zero to do with the Holocaust.