To: Brookhaven
To be more exact, western Poland was officially annexed into the Reich, and then there was the Generalgouvernment, which was where the Nazis dumped the Poles and Jews. It wasn’t technically a part of the Reich, but was more of a colony.
Poland’s “crime” was to be the place where most Jews happened to live, because over the centuries they were more tolerant towards Jews than the rest of Europe, and they were allowed to flourish more than anywhere else.
27 posted on
05/20/2009 2:11:50 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: dfwgator
Polands crime was to be the place where most Jews happened to live, because over the centuries they were more tolerant towards Jews than the rest of Europe, and they were allowed to flourish more than anywhere else.
One should also keep in mind, that re-born Poland accepted and granted Polish citizenship to around 600.000 Jews from Russia, after communist revolution of 1917.
Many Jews also emigrated to Poland after the Kristallnacht in Germany in 1939.
33 posted on
05/20/2009 2:16:00 PM PDT by
lizol
To: dfwgator
Polands crime was to be the place where most Jews happened to live, because over the centuries they were more tolerant towards Jews than the rest of Europe, and they were allowed to flourish more than anywhere else.
One should also keep in mind, that re-born Poland accepted and granted Polish citizenship to around 600.000 Jews from Russia, after communist revolution of 1917.
Many Jews also emigrated to Poland after the Kristallnacht in Germany in 1939.
36 posted on
05/20/2009 2:16:30 PM PDT by
lizol
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