To: Pontiac
In retrospect maybe not a great choice but who could blame him? Many other Pols made the same choice. Demjanjuk was Ukrainian, not Polish. Poles did not serve in the German army. None!
38 posted on
05/20/2009 2:19:45 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: dfwgator
Poles in the German Army? U.S. soldiers at Normandy reported taking Polish prisoners in German uniform. They may have been ethnically German. I know the Germans enrolled people with German surnames in Russia whose families had been there 300 years having been invited by Catherine the Great.
I think it’s true that a lot of Poles reported Jews or killed them during the war period. There are stories of Poles massacring Jews who tried to return to their homes after the war.
107 posted on
05/20/2009 4:15:52 PM PDT by
Belasarius
(Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job 5:2-7)
To: dfwgator
Simply wrong. There were poles in the Wehrmacht. A polish magazine seems a valid source of information and they simply say: There were poles in the Wehrmacht. "Wyrwy w szeregu. Polacy do Wehrmachtu, czyli pomysły na kolaborację" Polityka No.7 17. February 2001.
159 posted on
05/26/2009 11:34:50 AM PDT by
buzzer
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