[rmlew]

Compared to some the Poles were not especially Antisemtic. Poland was one country where Jews were not expelled. That is more than I can say for England, France or Spain. Ukranian nationalism, whether in the Kievan Chronicle or the revolts against Poland, was practically built on hatred of Jews.

That does not mean taht there was no antisemitism among ethnic Poles, quite the opposite. Sadly many political leaders, whether the Colonels running Poland in 1939, or the communists after the war, made use of it.
The German plans for the Polish people was brutal. Look up Operation Tannenberg, and stop being a denier yourself. The goal was the eradication of the Polish elite, the subjugation of the remaining Poles, the use of many for forced-labor or a new serfdom and the expulsion of the rest along with other Slavs past the Ural mountains.

[buck jarret]

While they killed millions of Poles, Germans were not attempting to annihilate them. Their intentions were eventual enslavement and exile for the majority of Poles, not death to all of them. Operation Tannenberg was directed against the intellegentsia and the politically active, not against the general Polish populace. The Nazis did not commit genocide against Poles as they did against Jews.

Poland has a long history of major anti-Jewish pogroms.

Jews were expelled from England and France before much of the area that is now Poland was Christianized.