Quote Originally Posted by _Martyr_
I find it unbelievable that ANYONE would not know that the holocaust was a nazi crime, not a Polish one.
The issue here is not about who commited the crime (as there is nothing more obvious than that), but the fact that many people view the Poles as "collaborators" who "helped the nazis" in their persecution and murder of Jews, which is rather sad and ignorant on their part. Even though there were a few exceptions (most notable is the "incident" at the village of "Jedwabne"), many Poles tried to aid their Jewish neighbours. Infact, Poland was the ONLY occupied territory in which the official punishment for housing/aiding a Jew was immediate death at the hands of a firing squad.
And to think that there is so much anti-semitism rooted in Poland today. How ironic