Carrie, on hearing of Siphonophores wrote:I heard you like jellyfish, so I put jellyfish in your jellyfish.
Jeckel wrote:It isn't as if European countries have ever been that strong on freedom of speech to begin with. Banning opinions because they are unpopular or incorrect, arresting people for tweets, and the entire idea of 'hate speech' to name a few examples of anti-free speech attitudes. This is just another example of Europe sliding ever father down that slippery slope.
Grouped by nationality, Poles represent the biggest number of people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. To date, 6,706[3] Christian Poles have been awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel – more than those of any other nation by far.
Some estimates put the number of Poles involved in rescue at up to 3 million, and credit Poles with saving up to around 450,000 Jews from certain death. The rescue efforts were aided by one of the largest anti-Nazi resistance movements in Europe, the Polish Underground State and its military arm, the Armia Krajowa. Supported by the Polish Delegation, these organizations operated special units dedicated to helping Jews; of those, the most notable was Żegota Council based in Warsaw with branches in Kraków, Wilno and Lwów.
Polish citizens were hampered by the most extreme conditions in all of German-occupied Europe. Occupied Poland was the only territory where the Germans decreed that any kind of help for Jews was punishable by death for the helper and their entire family. Of the estimated 3 million non-Jewish Poles killed in World War II, up to 50,000 were executed by Nazi Germany solely as the penalty for saving Jews.
The Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) estimates total deaths under the German occupation at 5,470,000 to 5,670,000 Jews and Poles,[7] 2,770,000 Poles,[8] 2.7 to 2.9 million Polish Jews [9] According to IPN research there were also 150,000 victims of Soviet repression
Depending on a definition of collaboration (and of a Polish citizen, based on ethnicity and minority status), some scholars estimate number of "Polish collaborators" at around several thousand in a population of about 35 million (that number is supported by the Israeli War Crimes Commission).[77] The estimate is based primarily on the number of death sentences for treason by the Special Courts of the Polish Underground State (however whether these are indeed reflective of the actual number of collaborators is still debated).
According to the studies of historian Gunnar S. Paulsson, during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw 70,000–90,000 Polish Gentiles aided Jews, while 3,000–4,000 were szmalcowniks, or blackmailers who collaborated with the Nazis in persecuting the Jews
as historian John Connelly concludes: "To say the least, Jews who escaped the ghettos were not shown the solidarity Poles expected from Poles... yet if no individual Pole can be held guilty of the crime, as a community Poles certainly can be accused of shared indifference, of what one might call a "structural collaboration" that made the Nazi agenda of killing Polish Jews so infernally successful."[76] Yehuda Bauer calls the claim that 60,000 Poles saved Jews "a blunt lie": "There is no doubt that a very brave minority amongst Poles aided Jews. But if it was 60,000, the history of the Holocaust in Poland would've looked completely different."[90]
satan_n_stuff wrote:Jeckel wrote:It isn't as if European countries have ever been that strong on freedom of speech to begin with. Banning opinions because they are unpopular or incorrect, arresting people for tweets, and the entire idea of 'hate speech' to name a few examples of anti-free speech attitudes. This is just another example of Europe sliding ever father down that slippery slope.
Europe is not Poland. Also you might want to check this out. Use actual arguments when trying to make a point, not empty rhetoric.
Carrie, on hearing of Siphonophores wrote:I heard you like jellyfish, so I put jellyfish in your jellyfish.
cmsellers wrote:Would you feel the same way if they were criminalizing homosexuality or legalizing rape?
Tesseracts wrote:In this age of falsehoods and lies, it's comforting to know some people are genuinely idiots.
Grouped by nationality, Poles represent the biggest number of people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust
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