I was born in Poland and I can tell you this.Before Germans showed up in 1939 every single town over 10K population in Eastern Poland had at least 20% Jews living there.That was legacy left for days of Russian rule there for 120 years.My own hometown of Lomza was nearly 30% and many villages East from it were in part Jewish as well.Those were not rich Jews-they were mostly poorer Jews and Hasidic Jews.After war in late 1940s census there was only about 200 of them left alive and none in villages.Ashes of most of them are in Treblinka and there are mass graves scattered around.When I was a Scout we cleaned up those we found.
There were many smaller Ghettos set up by Germans in 1941-43 period-all of them have been liquidated by end of 1943 and many Poles have died hiding Jews all the way until 1944 when Russians came.
You have no clue just how bad Germans got during the war.Poles know,Russians know,Yugoslavs definitely know so do Greeks,Czechs and everyone else East and South of Germany.Jews seems to have forgotten and are blaming Poles for German deeds.
You have no clue just how bad Germans got during the war.
The myth of the evil Hun goes back to WW1. It was started by the British secret service as negative or black war propaganda, to get all the English people to hate Germans. It was ramped up in the 1930s, and then escalated to insane levels during WW2, and it has never stopped. No wonder the average German feels shell-shocked. They've been the target of this black propaganda all their lives, and they are afraid to even open their mouths for fear of being called "Nazis." Most Germans won't even try to defend themselves or their own people. The anti-German propaganda is so thick and heavy, it is futile for them to say anything. The few who do speak out get put on trial and sent to prison for daring to question the Holocaust myth.
What you need to realize, as a Pole, is that you've been fed lies all your life. You have drunk lies, swallowed lies, breathed lies, slept in a bed of lies, and you can't even see that they are lies because they are all around you and inside you. If you start to realize this, it will be a painful and frightening awakening for you, because your entire world will have to be rewritten by you, and you will get precious little help in doing it because the entire media is against the truth.
For me it's not a myth.It was reality my family experienced twice-one in WW1 and second time in WW2.Family members in Poland still put lights on graves of those killed in both times.
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Butelczynski ago
I was born in Poland and I can tell you this.Before Germans showed up in 1939 every single town over 10K population in Eastern Poland had at least 20% Jews living there.That was legacy left for days of Russian rule there for 120 years.My own hometown of Lomza was nearly 30% and many villages East from it were in part Jewish as well.Those were not rich Jews-they were mostly poorer Jews and Hasidic Jews.After war in late 1940s census there was only about 200 of them left alive and none in villages.Ashes of most of them are in Treblinka and there are mass graves scattered around.When I was a Scout we cleaned up those we found.
There were many smaller Ghettos set up by Germans in 1941-43 period-all of them have been liquidated by end of 1943 and many Poles have died hiding Jews all the way until 1944 when Russians came.
You have no clue just how bad Germans got during the war.Poles know,Russians know,Yugoslavs definitely know so do Greeks,Czechs and everyone else East and South of Germany.Jews seems to have forgotten and are blaming Poles for German deeds.
ardvarcus ago
The myth of the evil Hun goes back to WW1. It was started by the British secret service as negative or black war propaganda, to get all the English people to hate Germans. It was ramped up in the 1930s, and then escalated to insane levels during WW2, and it has never stopped. No wonder the average German feels shell-shocked. They've been the target of this black propaganda all their lives, and they are afraid to even open their mouths for fear of being called "Nazis." Most Germans won't even try to defend themselves or their own people. The anti-German propaganda is so thick and heavy, it is futile for them to say anything. The few who do speak out get put on trial and sent to prison for daring to question the Holocaust myth.
What you need to realize, as a Pole, is that you've been fed lies all your life. You have drunk lies, swallowed lies, breathed lies, slept in a bed of lies, and you can't even see that they are lies because they are all around you and inside you. If you start to realize this, it will be a painful and frightening awakening for you, because your entire world will have to be rewritten by you, and you will get precious little help in doing it because the entire media is against the truth.
Butelczynski ago
For me it's not a myth.It was reality my family experienced twice-one in WW1 and second time in WW2.Family members in Poland still put lights on graves of those killed in both times.
Canada_is_gay ago
My family still puts out cookies for Santa Claus every year.