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| 'Poles killed more Jews than Germans' |
| 2015-10-17 |
| [France24] Polish prosecutors on Thursday opened a libel probe against a US historian after he claimed Poles killed more Jews than Germans during World War II. Last month, German newspaper Die Welt ran an article by the Polish-born Princeton University professor Jan T. Gross in which he sought to explain Poland's wariness of accepting Syrian migrants streaming into Europe by referring to anti-Semitism during the war. "The Poles, for example, were indeed rightfully proud of their society's resistance against the Nazis, but in fact did kill more Jews than Germans during the war," wrote the 68-year-old Jewish historian. ...Warsaw historian Andrzej Paczkowski told AFP "there are no reliable figures regarding the number of Jews killed by Poles and the number of Germans killed by Poles." But Paczkowski, who is also a council member of the National Remembrance Institute (IPN) that is charged with investigating Nazi and Communist-era crimes, said he "would not be totally surprised if Gross were right". Nobody who studied the relevant history will be suprized. "But his vision of things runs counter to the heroic image Poles have of themselves." Yea, well. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 Sure. And after the war, every Frenchman had been part of the resistance. Stories always get better in the telling. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2015-10-17 15:35 |
| #5 frozen al, he's talking about Germans killed by Poles |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-10-17 13:43 |
| #4 One possible outcome of this nonsense is a recreation of the Soviet empire as a willing self-defense pact against first the EU and then against the European caliphate. So they could join either the EU or the Neo-Soviet/Iranian Axis. I think despite the beliefs of some here the latter choice is as antisemitic, and delusional, as the original Molotov-Ribbentroff Pact. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-10-17 13:40 |
| #3 This is a great deal of silliness that needs to be put to bed. Many Poles were anti-Semitic and were happy to loot the belonging of the just-executed Jews. However, the number of Jews executed by the Poles is in the low thousands, whereas the number executed by the Germans is in the millions. The issue of Pole vs. Jew violence is that many Jews cooperated with the Soviets during the '39 - '41 occupation. When the Germans threw out the Russians, there was a settling of accounts. Al |
| Posted by: frozen al 2015-10-17 12:14 |
| #2 So, both Die Welt and France24 have grabbed onto the fact that a history professor accuses Poles of being innately evil as the reason they object to cooperating in their replacement by this Third World migration. One possible outcome of this nonsense is a recreation of the Soviet empire as a willing self-defense pact against first the EU and then against the European caliphate. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-10-17 12:07 |
| #1 As far as the Nazis were concerned, both Slavs and Jews were Untermenschen, and therefore needed to be entirely wiped out. So they made sure there was not nearly enough food and fuel for the population, then let nature take its course. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-10-17 11:36 |