Book “Polish mayors and the Holocaust” says that Polish mayors were also responsible for the Holocaust

book about Volksdeutsch… wonderful

With or without the context of this particular book, I find the widespread idea that Poles had literally zero collaborants nor any responsibility for Holocaust, to put it mildly, odd

Paid by Germany to show Poland as accomplice in WW2 crimes and have arguments to don’t pay reparations.

There is only one nation who started genocides (plural, a genocides on Slavs, Jews or Roma). And one nation and country to blame only. Handful of non-German collaborators and traitors will not change it.

there were plenty of anti jewish posters etc in 1930s in poland recently i have seen a beach with a sign jews entry prohibited or something like that but still if it wasn’t for the nazis this stuff would have not happened in poland

And Poles will still say that Germany has changed, they just want to shift the blame to someone else.

I don’t know the contents of the book, but every single country has some massacre in their closet. Even though the Holocaust is German doing, you can’t deny things like Jedwabnem. The numbers are different, circumstances obviously convoluted but a massacre is a massacre no matter what statistics say.

While keeping historical truth straight is important, you can basically just compare between countries who killed more, and the answer typically is that the more powerful country during a certain period, killed more than weaker ones.

I find it way more important to keep current politics in a shape that allows for avoidance of genocides. Over attachment to the past creates conflicts that are absurd, because people of the current age aren’t responsible for their ancestors.

It’s more of the other way around. The ancestors are responsible for creating optimal circumstances for the next generations.

Who is this author? Why should we consider him an authority?

Not only. Polish railway workers, police, even firemen were actively supporting holocaust.

It’s always what went on during the war that gets the spotlight but not what happened afterwards. The Germans were defeated already when the Kielce Pogrom happened in July 4th, 1946. It was started by a false rumor that a Jewish person had kidnapped a Polish boy, which in turn caused people to go and attack random Jews out on the street resulting in 42 killed and 40 seriously injured. Many of those victims being survivors of the Nazis that were just beginning to return home.

Why did this happen after the war? Because antisemitism didn’t just stop existing after the Nazis left Poland, some locals still believed in old stereotypes and myths about Jews there. The country was at the beginning of new communist rule which further laid the groundwork for the spread of rumors. Other Jews trying to return back home after the war also faced hostility from locals over land and home disputes that were created by Nazi looting and displacements.

Some people in here fail to realize that according to the book Polish mayors under German occupation were given large degree of autonomy and ability to pursue their own goals and policy aside from German supervision. Book tries to portray them as willing and equal allies of German occupation forces, completely ignoring the fact that they couldn’t refuse due to the obvious.

Also the book was funded by Fritz Thyssen Foundation who was one of Hitler’s earliest supporters, until he realized that war is pretty bad for his business and fled to Switzerland.

Wow. First we got “Nazis” instead of “Germans”, now it’s “Polish Mayors” instead of said “Nazis”. What a fascinating, though not unexpected, turn of events!

After traveling through Germany, you guess who could commit such crimes again and again. You can see their expression change the moment you don’t speak German with them

“21 listopad” undoubtedly proper Polish form

My god 3-5 million Poles alone lived in West Germany in the thirties (Ruhrpoles) but do not tell the Poles… Whole cities in West Germany have been ruled by local Polish parties. Until now big cities in Ruhrgebiet celebrate “70% Polish ancestors” festivities. Means during the attack 1939 there was a significant population percentage (10-15%?) of Poles in the Reich. Polish history nowadays ist still the same what Russians fed them 45years long.

To what extent would pogroms have occurred in Poland during WW2 had it not been for Nazi occupation? Pogroms occurred for centuries before the Nazis came along. The difference was that the official policy of the Nazi military occupiers was to encourage, conduct, sanction, approve etc… the pogroms. Of course, individuals were responsible for their actions, but don’t ignore the context when deciding who was culpable.