The Poles today say (or perhaps the word ought to be “recognize”) that there is in the West and especially in America an industry whose purpose is to whitewash the German and Soviet war crimes and to blame the Poles and Ukrainians. Recall the recent Obama statement about “Polish death camps”, which corresponds to some of the nonsense posted above.
Things were indeed complicated in Poland before the war as well as during it, as German and Soviet armies rolled over the country and various ethnic groups expressed their sympathies, because it was at the time a truly multi-ethnic society, with many Jews, since we are discussing them, not even speaking the official language of the country, and uncomfortable in it being a sovereign state after 123 years of non-existence. Then there were the Ukrainians who longed for their own state and murdered 200,000 Poles toward that goal, and the Lithuanians, who preferred the German occupation to the Soviet paradise. But all of this is too much for the amateur historians getting their lessons from propagandistic Hollywood productions.
Well said.