Posted on 10/30/2013 8:20:48 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Jedwabne's terrible secrets were at last laid bare in Neighbors, an explosive account of the massacre by Princeton University historian Jan T. Gross. That 2001 book shattered carefully held myths, promulgated by Communist leaders, that Poles were only victims of World War II, not perpetrators. (Poles -- who unlike many European countries never officially collaborated with the Nazis -- lost close to 6 million citizens to the Nazis, or about 17 percent of the population. Just over half of those were Jewish.) Now, 12 years later, comes Aftermath -- premiering stateside Nov. 1....
"....a book is nothing compared to the power of a feature film," says Jablonski, who was instantly gripped by the power and efficiency of Pasikowski's storytelling. His first step was to bring the project to the Polish Film Institute, an office founded in 2005 and dedicated to nurturing films that celebrate Polish culture. The fund found the taboo project "anti-Polish," Jablonski says, not because the claims made in it were deemed untrue, but because it chose to overlook acts of Polish heroism and compassion shown toward Jews during the war. In other words, Aftermath was not a Polish Schindler's List. Jablonski adds that PFI also objected to the image of the present-day village, inhabited by anti-Jewish thugs and locals who conspired to keep the truth literally buried. "They said this wasn't the truth about Poland, but unfortunately, I didn't agree," Jablonski says. "I know these kind of villages; I know these kind of people."
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Gross’s book is about as credible as Bill Ayer’s Dreams from my Father.
You guys need to find a Readers Digest version.
BEEP!
Not surprisingly those elements within the Church that demonstrated the greatest sympathy for Jews were among the most eloquent voices calling for contrition.
He was associated with notorious neo-Nazi philosopher Francis Parker Yockey, publisher of the national socialist "classic" Imperium.
Your invocation of a notorious Nazi organization which almost everyone knows to avoid does not speak very well for you, HoughtonM.
Fits the FR catholic haters about right,I’d say.
Have you read the reviews of Gross when it came out in 2001?
Ad hominems do not become you.
I'm in "great dismay"? Oh, woe is me!
Whom did I "ad hominem?" Willis Carto?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbors:_The_Destruction_of_the_Jewish_Community_in_Jedwabne,_Poland
From another notoriously anti-semitic source: Wikipedia citing a leading Holocaust historian:
Alexander B. Rossino, a research historian at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. wrote: “while Neighbors contributed to an ongoing re-examination of the history of the Holocaust in Poland, Gross’ failure to examine German documentary sources fundamentally flawed his depiction of the events. The result was a skewed history that did not investigate SS operations in the region or German interaction with the Polish population.”[30]
We don’t know what happened that day. Period.
I advise you to avoid any of Willis Carto's web of web sites/publications/organizations in the future.
Of course there are those that believe all Polish Catholics listen to Radio Maryja and wear mohair berets.
Not so sure what the alleged shocker is. Anyone familiar with the Vichy government, or even the Sound of Music is well aware that there Nazi collaborators in Catholic nations. Kudos to the movie for pointing out (where the movie does not) that the Nazis also killed 7 million Catholics. This was not just because of their ethnicity... but because of their religious or at least presumed ideological beliefs.
There is a great deal of information in Israel that there were localized things like this happening in Poland.
Anti-Semitic thinking has never been common in the USA but it was very common in eastern Europe in the 1900’s.
Calling people anti-Catholic for pointing out fairly well documented occurrences is kind of petty.
I spent 3 months in Israel working and learning from co-workers.
Fair or unfair, there is a reason many do not trust Christians of any religion.
If anyone should be marched into an oven, it’s ayers.
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