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In reply to the discussion: "Polish death camps" [View all]RZM
(8,556 posts)And 'geographically correct' doesn't cut it. The Germans ran Poland when the Holocaust was carried out. Like I said above, it's not that different from calling Abu Ghraib an 'Iraqi prison.' That may be geographically correct, but it matters less where the facility was than whose policy was carried out there. And the Holocaust was 100 percent German policy.
Yes, Poland was an anti-Semitic country and Poles were known to seize Jewish property (often after being deprived of their own property by the Germans) and sometimes gave up Jews to the Germans. But there were Poles who hid Jews as well.
The penalty for resisting German policy in any way, shape, or form was death. Millions of gentile Poles were killed during the war, often at random. And how exactly was a people under a brutal occupation regime supposed to 'do something' about the death camps? It was hard enough to stay alive even if you weren't resisting.