Polish President Karol Nawrocki has said that Auschwitz “might not have happened” if the world had reacted sooner to Nazi crimes in occupied Poland, accusing Western Europe of indifference in the early years of World War II.
https://tvpworld.com/91277597/polands-nawrocki-accuses-europe-of-indifference-before-auschwitz
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Glad I kept reading that sentence
He isn’t wrong. UK wanted to appease Hitler.
Jesus Christ that headline really should have been worded better. Way to make the start sound like the president of Poland is questioning if the really Holocaust happened…
I feel like he’s really actually talking about the future more than the past.
EU is attacked from all sides by hostile powers, but our great former football hooligan president decides to poke old scars and throw some mud on our only real friends. Classy, truly a deserving candidate for Trumps Hoard of Piss.
Is he saying Poland should care more about ukraine?
I had my pitchfork raised halfway through that headline 😂
That was overall a very minor point in his speech, which is overwhelmingly yet another tirade on how the evil Federal Republic of Germany should pay reparations and the usual nationalist nonsense.
Not to mention Britain and France’s entire reason for being at war was a defensive alliance and in 1939-41, the period Nawrocki is complaining about, they were tragically busy getting their arses kicked across Europe and Africa. It certainly wasn’t for lack of trying that they failed to prevent the Holocaust.
And yet he is very eager to join the Trump’s “Peace” Board which is basically focused right now on building Dubai-like resort for rich people on the graveyard of the Palestinians.
He is right. This is happening in Ukraine now. I blame Obama and EU did next to nothing when Putin invaded Crimea.
is this supposed to be a controversial opinion?
There’s a real conversation to be had about Western Europe dragging its feet early on, but this ain’t it. Feels clumsy at best and inflammatory at worst.
I agree most of the world didn’t care what hitler was doing in Germany until he started trying to gain more lands that’s when people couldn’t turn there heads anymore
Not really indifference, but the idea that someone like Hitler could be placated by just giving them the thing they want, and hoping they won’t ask for more.
That’s like saying some unpredicted future atrocity could be avoided by “the world” intervening in Minnesota or Arizona. There’s no predicting the escalation even today when there are six phone camera angles on every crime perpetrated by government goons.
He’s making a point right now.
Not gonna lie he had me in the first half
That guy with that hilariously bad English at Davos? Sounded like a completely drunken Hooligan.
I think this had been a matter of contention for a long time and is common knowledge
Well, hindsight is 20-20 you know.
They had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
Eh yeah, almost all of Western Europe was kind of occupied.
Bit late? Unless he’s referring to something more current, quite a few to choose from now.
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Agreed plz send help to U.S.
100% correct. If you haven’t already, please read *’The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich’*. Page, after page, after page of timidity and appeasement by European leaders, at multiple occasions when Hitler could have been stopped in his tracks by firm action. By the time the countries got their shit together and started making moves against Hitler, it was too late, and the German military was already built up and mobilised. THIS is the number one lesson we need to learn from WWII. We could have stopped it all from happening if Britain or France had responded with force to any of the occasions when Hitler brazenly transgressed the sovereignty of other nations or the freedoms of people in Germany.
Yeah. We know. It was called the “Phony War” for a reason.
Listen up America, the echoes are LOUD
Count the polish population in too, they were the ones snitching on polish jews
That sentence is a waste of oxygen.
Auschwitz “might not have happened” if some Brit had better aim in WW1!
Umm… Western Europe declared war on Sep 3rd 1939. Guess who made profits for two years selling arms and supplies to the British and only reacted in 1941?
He is absolutely correct.
Does this guy know that Poland actually annexed part of Czechoslovakia together with Germany?
Ehhhh the allied forces at the start of the war dwarfed the German forces. Germany would have been stuck fighting a two front war if the allies had gone on the offensive.
But the planning for France and Great Britain in case of a new war was one of bleeding Germany dry. Thé had strong arms forces but they were built around holding the line, static fighting. The plan was to force Germany into attrition while at the same time starving it of resources.
On the surface, it made sense, particularly since the French had laid considerable groundwork to do just that.
The allies had more tanks, more planes, more men and more material. Germany shouldn’t have stood a chance, but the French and British wanted to avoid the horrors of the First World War and planned on visiting those horrors on Germany alone by preparing for them well in advance.
The Polish president isn’t wrong. Germany would have been in an even worse position if the allies hadn’t allowed the Sudetenland to happen, and the French were roaring to go, but the British were not looking to go to war and wanted to give peace one more chance. It is important to note that Hitler planned for the Sudentenland crisis to be the start of the war. He was surprised the allies actually allowed him to take over the Sudetenland and even more surprised when the allies didn’t intervene when he invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia.
This is not controversial. He’s stating the obvious.
i have no idea how any of you are reading “might not have happened” as anything other then it says. literally says if directly next.
come on guys.
The title is a rollercoaster of emotions
Is that not a basic historical fact? At least regarding WW2.
He’s not wrong. Wake-up call for USA.
I think we can definitively say that it wouldn’t have happened but I appreciate the attempt at critical thinking
Agreed.
France England etc were all about appeasement.
Fail.
Nawrocki renewed his calls for Germany to pay reparations for the devastation of World War II.
“To this day, the German state has not paid reparations to Poland for the evil of the Second World War. This is not how a world of peace is built,” he said.
Here we go again…..