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Originally Posted by Livia
There were 3.3 million Polish Jews at the start of WW2, 3 million of them were murdered leaving only just over 300,000 alive. Lots of those Jews were handed over by their countrymen who went on to steal their homes and property.
Those 3 million died in agony, starved, freezing, beaten... men, women, children... in the ghettos and the the death camps, Chelmo, Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek.
So sorry a few words upset the Poles.
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And also many Jews were saved by Poles. Talking about one group without mentioning the other seems a bit one-sided.
The extreme fear brings the best and the worst in people. Collaboration with the Nazis took place all over Europe. Don't see Netanyahu picking fights with other countries, let alone the perpetrator of it all, Germany? Jews from all over Europe were shipped to the camps you mention.
Poland lost 6 million citizens in the war, 3 million were Jews, the other 3 million were Poles.
I'm not in denial about what some Poles did or about anti-semitism present in Poland (like the rest of Europe), but let's take the full picture into account and not insult heroes by tarring the whole nation with the same brush.