re: #12 jc717

Utter nonsense. That over 3 million jews lived in Poland before WWII was not an accident. It was a country where they enjoyed a better life than in other areas. I’ve had numerous business dealings in Poland and have visited the country many times. The place is not anti-semitic.

This ‘expert’ is obviously a jackass, but judging a country based on Jackasses would be like other countries judging us by the words and actions of the Westboro Baptist Church.

Over 6 million poles died in WW2; around half that number were Polish Jews.

It was a place where they enjoyed a better life… up to the seventeenth century. Then massive pogroms put an end to all that, but of course there were still a lot of Jews in the country, rejected (at least) by their Christian neighbors and massively ill-treated by the Polish government (or such government as there was). They couldn’t really leave, if only because they were so poor — and where would they go, anyway? Who would have them?

(Obviously, this history of Polish Jews in four sentences could be elaborated a bit, but the notion that Poles “aren’t anti-Semitic” is nonsense, as is the idea that Jews weren’t singled out for special treatment by the Nazis, even though they also persecuted Slavs.)