Madness in High Places
The Syrian thing requires that Western leaders follow the advice of the church in San Casciano, but they are not serious people and they dread taking serious action. So instead they sent a few diplomats back to Damascus. The Western chiefs know — as every informed person knows, but hardly anyone the other side of PJ Media will say — that serious action against the Assad tyranny will likely have unforeseeable consequences, including the destabilization of the whole region. They don’t want that. They would prefer that Assad wipe out the opposition quickly, as they long preferred that Gaddaafi do the same. But now their disgusting failure to advance the cause of freedom is becoming so embarrassingly obvious that they thought they should do something. But diplomatic action — an oxymoron, I know — is now irrelevant to the Middle East theater of the global war being waged against us by Iran and its allies. There is no way that the Russians will go quietly for regime change in Damascus, even though Obama keeps saying that he welcomes Russia’s influence in Syria.
That’s disgusting squared.
Finally, my longtime friend Radek Sikorski, the excellent foreign minister of Poland, berated Obama for speaking of “Polish death camps,” when the death camps in Poland were run under German occupation. True enough. But if I were a Polish government official, I would not want to provoke a big international debate over Polish antisemitism. Yes, the Germans ran the camps, but lots of Poles were very much in favor of the Shoah, and did a lot of it themselves. I might have softly pointed out Obama’s historical inaccuracy, but I would not have pounded the table and demanded a full apology.
I mean, this president has made so many historical errors, this is just another example of the incompetence of his staff and his own great ignorance of the facts of the modern world. All a tribute to the lousy educational system that produced him.
And by the way, with whom did he study at Columbia and Harvard? And how did he do?
Good questions you posed at the end. The list of people to get to the bottom of what you raised, well I wish it was longer, but we work with what we have – instead of what we wish we had.
Michael – I’m a fabut I take issue with your presentaion of the Polish role during the Holocaust. By way of introduction, I’m an American Jew with family from Galicia (a royal province of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire formerly located in present day southern Poland). During the mid/late 1980s, while serving in the US Army, I attended DLI for Polish and had the opportunity to work closely with Poles. During recent tours in Iraq and Afghanistan I had the opportunity to spend too brief periods with allied Polish military units (and incidentally a lot of time with our Czech allies).
There’s a reason why “complex” is frequently used to describe Polish/Jewish relations. While it’s true that anti-Semitism has been a factor (too often a very significant factor) in Polish history, Poland was for centuries a refuge for Jews and an incubator for some of the greatest achievements of Jewish culture (I include religion as a prominent part) in Europe.
During WWII gentile Poles were, after Jews and Gypsies, major targets of Nazi brutality with estimates of well over two million non-Jewish Polish citizens murdered. As documented at Yad Vashem, the Polish role in aiding Jews during the Holocaust was impressive. This was in spite of the fact that gentile Poles, in addition to being victims of Nazi oppression, faced unprecedented punishments from the Nazis for aiding Jews. The Zegota Polish underground organization was especially prominent in this effort.
I close by noting that the Poles are proud of their prominent, centuries old role in fighting for genuine liberal causes and this sentiment has often gone hand-in-hand with Polish philo-Semitism. Perhaps the most prominent example is Tadeusz Kościuszko, who was also a hero in the American War of Independence. The Polish role at the vanguard of the fight for freedom continues to this day with Polish soldiers having served prominently alongside US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan (for example, task Force White Eagle in the very kinetic Ghazni Province (http://polishmilitary.wordpress.com/tag/task-force-white-eagle/) and maintaining a surprisingly close military relationship with the IDF.
I take the liberty of posting a few related links below.
The Pope and I: How the Lifelong Friendship between a Polish Jew and John Paul II Advanced Jewish-Christian Relations – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1570759707/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Who Defended The Warsaw Ghetto? By Moshe Arens (former Israeli Minister of Defense) – http://www.freeman.org/m_online/may03/arens.htm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-storozynski/jan-karski-presidential-medal-of-freedom_b_1553057.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Zegota.html
‘MORE PHILO-SEMITISM THAN ANTI-SEMITISM IN POLISH HISTORY’ – HTTP://WWW.JEWISHPRESSADS.COM/PAGEROUTE.DO/40144 (Jewish Press is perhaps the most prominent centrist Orthodox Jewish newspaper in the US).
What Iran needs is a secular opposition
How could the crisis of 2008 be overcomed without a black democratic president, avoiding the social revolution ante portas?
The protestation of the Poles is in proportion to their guilt.
I think you’re confusing bad people with ethnicity. Or do I get time served for what dead people did who look like me?
That may be a little harsh, but it’s true Poland was a land of anti-Jewish pogroms before and after World War II; those Polish Jews who tried to return home after the war found if they wanted to survive any longer Poland was not the place to do it in.
To some extent, the State of Israel exists because of those post-holocaust pogroms.
On the other hand, a relative of mine had a buddy in the army (US, Korean War era), a Pole with a number on his arm. In his area of Poland, they had run out of Jews, so they started sending Poles to the camps. (He was quite sympathetic to Jews, and used to defend my relative when the other guys gave him a hard time for sleeping in the baracks at night instead of going to the town (Okinowa) to stay with a “honey”.)
There were Poles who saved Jews, and there were those who turned them in, even when they didn’t have to. But I think there were others (Lithuanians, Ukaranians, Romanians) with worse records. And of course, let’s not forget that they were GERMAN death camps; there is no nationality called “Nazi”.
It’s very understandable that Obama hates the Poles. He is 1/32 Jewish you know.
THANKS a WHOLE Bunch FeralCat- When i read your comment i spit my coffee in trash can and near peaed my pants
Political Insanity began in the 1960′s when the children of the Greatest Generation began to SPOIL their Brats, happens with many First Generations who make it to become RICH Millionaire Fat cats,t the second generation loses it all, now we have these Rich political figures living in Money, going to Liberal Ivy League schools & never learning what life is all about for common man
I think he’s more upset with their rejection of Communism.
You are confused Feral Obama is 50% WHITE 43% ARAB and 7% BLACK no Jewish blood there at all but plenty of MUSLIM SLAVE TRADER blood though. The Poles are on thin ice though as we all know pre War Poland was well know for its ANTI SEMITISM almost but not quite rivaling that of Germany.
Did he do any studying of any kind other than extracuricular activities?
I think he spent a lot of time with what is now called a composite girl friend. People used to call them imaginary girl friends.
Yes, but…
…he had Choom!!!
Darn! I’m beginning to suspect that he spent very little time in a classroom while at Harvard, Columbia or wherever else he said he “studied”.
Oh, he had a “composite” girlfriend all right – composed of his four fingers and his thumb! Rosie Palm, I think her name was…
Question: “… with whom did he study at Columbia and Harvard? And how did he do?”
Answer: None of our business.
Now, move along.
I don’t recall any one on the left or the MSM asking us to “move along” when GW’s records at Yale and Harvard were under microscopic scrutiny. For that matter I also don’t seem to recall the same admonition when Romney’s pranks in High School were daily fodder for the same bunch of fellow travellers.
Dear Leader was education at the very finest universities where he excelled in reeling and writhing, of course, to begin with and then all the different branches of arithmetic: ambition, distraction, falsification and derision with additional courses in Karl Marx and Napoleon Bonaparte, with history washing for extra credit.
“Fourth, the stern lecture from the Poles in response to Obama’s reference to “Polish death camps.”
The Poles certainly should have been able to understand Dear Leader Emperor Barack Hussein Louie Hugo Benito Isuzu Obama’s linguistic sophistication and professorial nuance. I know I did. When Dear Leader Emperor Barack Hussein Louie Hugo Benito Isuzu Obama says Kenya, he really means Hawaii, and when he says Hawaii, he really means Kenya, so therefor it should be obvious to anyone who has been paying attention that when Dear Leader Emperor Barack Hussein Louie Hugo Benito Isuzu Obama says German, he really means Polish, and when he says Polish, he really means German, or that place south of Germany where they speak Austrian. Or is it Australian?
Depends on how far south and east you are.
It all depends if he is reading from a translation from Austrian of course.
ZZ and Pragmatist:
You’re both wrong! Really!
It depends, all depends, on the “focus” — of his teleprompter!
Be good now!
There was a time when people thought that the purpose of government was to protect natural law and the rights of the people. Now it seems people believe that the purpose of government is to torment us to death.
I wouldn’t be too hard on comrade 0. He was only reading off the teleprompter you see. The one programing it is the idiot ignorant of history. I wonder where he/she/it graduated from?
Why, Michael…you should know by now.
He studied Austrian with a roommate who was a corpseman. The celebrated Cinco de Cuatro together and visited all 57 states.
He was too humble to gather any honors, got his Social Security card from Connecticut without having ever lived there, traveled to Pakistan even though it was restricted passage and wrote two autobiographies about a person nobody ever heard of or cared about at the time.
He doesn’t have much use for Eastern Europe, the Balkans or Israel. When he pats Medevev’s knee, they both know the message to be delivered to Vladimir about how his second term should go.
We have found out through Fast and Furious, Solyndra and our own DOJ…that it is high time for low character. We like the UN more than Arizona.
Polish Death Camps? Slip of the tongue. Vladimir won’t be happy with Little Barry and the Imperials.
The day after Obama’s leaves office the MSM will probably release Obama’s transcripts whereupon the world will see he was an average student who concentrated in some silly radical indoctrination courses. Courses set up for students who could not handle real work and would allow the university to establish it’s radical credentials.
Frankly I cannot see Obama having the ability to learn anything, that would be an admission that he does not already know everything there is to know.
I think the real question is whether he pretended to be foreign-born in order to be accepted into these selective institutions, and also whether he got scholarships or other sorts of funds from agencies set up to help foreign-born students.
“I have often referred to the UN as “the world’s greatest organized crime organization,” and the choice of the Zimbabwian criminal-in-chief provides further evidence (as if we needed any).”
Yes, but an organized crime organization bought and paid for by the United States. Notice how they are leaping, yes leaping, into action to save those people in Syria? I’m sure they’ll decide to send in some “peacekeeping” troops in about, oh, ten to twelve years. The UN’s strategy is always to talk a problem to death until the problem just “goes away,” meaning the dictator has re-gained power and has gone back to killing his own people. What’s worse, we are supporting an organization that is mainly made up of tyrants, dictators, monarchs, religious madmen, and megalomaniacs. And this is what our tax dollars are going to support?
Maybe it’s time to just make a United Nations of democracies. Any other type of country can just go pound salt some place or, better yet, stay in the old UN so that we can quickly identify who the real oppressive regimes are. This is such a waste of time and money, funds that could well be spent on something more important, like our own military.
When 5 million were killed in Uganda and 500 UN troups with rubber bullets were capatured the UN USA? Paid a ransom to get them out- after that the UN & Bill Clinton included and rest of UN & civilized nations Would NOT USE THE WORD Genocide about Ruwanda/Congo because if they did it was a UN Mandate for the UN to go back in to Ruwanda/Congo, same with Liberia, Nigeria etc. WHY because they WONT use force on Animals in those genocids- the UN has MESSED UP every peace keeping situation they have been involved in
UN is Disorganized CRIME – F them
PJM’s attack on Obama on this issue is pathetic. PJM usually takes a stand against political correctness, but obviously can’t pass up the opportunity to take a cheap shot at his eminence. The death camps actually were in Poland. His sentence was literally true. And the Poles have plenty more important things to be really sensitive about, like how they have been betrayed by pretty much every significant power in the last 100 years. Get a life you guys.
And the Poles have plenty more important things to be really sensitive about…
Yes. And perhaps that’s for the Poles to decide, not you.
So we’re not allowed to criticize foolish Polish reactions unless we’re also Polish? Really? I’ve certainly run across this sort of attitude before, but not on the conservative side of the political spectrum.
My reply was specific only to Robo’s snarky commentary.
So Allston lets have your view on the virulent and RAMPANT antisemitism that existed pre war and who knows even to this day in Poland.
Hard, hard times are coming. This will sort the wheat from the chaff.
when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
Obama just awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Ammerican Communist, Dolores Huerta.
She is a member of the DSA — Democratic Socialists of America, but there is nothing democratic about her. I have seen her speak many times and she frquently speaks of her vistits to Cuba to visit her close personal friend, Fidel Castro.
Anybody who is a confident of Castro is a communist.
I think the author means ‘the global war being waged against Israel in the Middle East’. Well with Russia and China in Irans corner, Israel can fight their own war for a change. Leave “us” out of it.
no, i’m talking about the global war against us and our allies.
Bravo Ledeen!
I’m being completely straightforward (which is to say, this is not a sarcastic comment). I’m glad you picked up on that little bit of nastiness. It’s fascinating actually how PJM, with all its obvious pro-Israel sentiment still manages to attract “folks” who clearly have a major bone to pick with the Jewish State.
In any case, you correctly pointed out that the thrust of Islamic terror is against all forces of modernity (not “only Israel”). Our servicemen are being killed in Afghanistan regularly by Iranian connivance (as I know you know).
One last thought. I specifically remember — after 9/11 when I first learned of Bin Laden and his subsequent rants — thinking to myself, “Hmmm, I wonder when he’s going to start employing more ‘popular’ anti-Israel language,” instead of the “anti-crusader” nonsense with which he started out. Both lines of attack are of course equally absurd, but blaming Israel for everything wrong in the Middle East is, as of course you know, an accepted — nay, celebrated — art form.
Bin Laden’s first few rants were poorly received by all audiences. Then at some point he hit upon Israel. I remember being amazed that he hadn’t used phrases like “Zionist” this or “Zionist” that earlier — he had been mainly concerned with expelling American forces from Saudi Arabia. But I suppose faced with dwindling ratings, he opted to latch on to the hit beat of the Middle East, known as the “Little Satan Syncopation” and sometimes referred to as “Jewish Nation Fascination” (sorry couldn’t resist these last two!)
tks, totally agree
“…world leaders have taken leave of common sense.”
As if they’d ever had any to leave.
Ha ha, fat chance Obama will throw the UN out of NYC. I think he would rather throw out all Americans from the city as appeasement for the US being (in his warped world view) such a horrible, fascist nation.
NO! Mugabe should be hanged. An exquisite depiction of the event — perhaps oils on velvet — should be hung, perhaps in the vestibule of the United Nations building.
But seriously, excellently well put. If political insanity were a recognized virus, the CDC would have declared a worldwide pandemic by now.
tks for the accurate correction, much appreciated.
Eric Holders “people” eat the faces off their opponents. Zimmerman was really lucky.
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/05/26/miami-police-confrontation-men-leaves-1-dead-1-hurt/
But, “we” must remain civil? (snort)!
Can we get some Syrian Rebels to help us?
Typical snarky dishonest comment on Polish anti-Semitism by Ledeen.
Ledeen like so many others wants collective guilt so he can manipulate for his own agenda. If you do it, it is on your head, if not then not.
If groups don’t have enemies, it is necessary to create them or provoke others into becoming ones.
Plenty of Poles went to the camps, and I would remind you that if the Shoah got 6 mil Jews, the camps got a like number of others.
I am a WASP so let me say Ledeen, keep your hateful judgmental views within your group and leave the rest of us alone.
Obama is just lazy and slack, and owes the world an apology for that. Your other rationalizations are vile: be gone.
That’s funny! Jews need to create enemies? Why would we need to do that? We don’t have enough of them?
The man bleeding next to you is not your enemy. He may not be your friend, but he wouldn’t be fighting and bleeding by your side if he were your enemy. After the war, the Jews got back their ancient homeland, Israel, and rightly so. What did Poland get for winning WWII? 45 years of Soviet occupation and AK veterans declared enemies of the State. When is Russia going to pay reparations for the atrocities committed against Poland? Frankly, after dealing with these repeated betrayals and atrocities committed against them, I’m surprised Poland hasn’t decided to build nuclear weapons to serve as a deterrent against future Russian aggression.
To understand the plight of the Poles after WWII you need to read about the Yalta conference where Franklin Roosevelt sold out not only Poland but all the Eastern European countries to Stalin against the wishes of Winston Churchill who knew exactly what the Russians were.
I for one am happy that the Poles are bent out of shape by Obama’s remarks. I am much more interested in the Obama narrative being chipped away at until it crumbles than I am in the nuances of Polish history.
Keep your eyes on the prize, people! Get the current President out of office. I’ll even welcome a swelling of birther voters, I don’t care. Whatever it takes within legitimate means to change administrations and allow grownups to govern again.
Western leaders want Assad to wipe out opposition quickly? Seriously? Sorry Mr. Ledeen, your commentary on Iraq’s Green Movement has been interesting and accurate, but to state, without any evidence whatsoever, that Western leaders don’t want “advance the cause of freedom” in Syria is delusional. Perhaps Western leaders do not wish to follow your lead, which is maybe active participation in the Syrian rebellion (you don’t specify what you would prefer to see, a safe bet for any commentator) but if you are going to criticize the current approach, then you must suggest an alternative approach. Btw, the little dig at Obama’s university record hardly fits with rest of your otherwise ok article. You can do better, I hope.
“‘Mugabe should be hung…’
NO! Mugabe should be hanged. An exquisite depiction of the event — perhaps oils on velvet — should be hung, perhaps in the vestibule of the United Nations building.”
Or he could be hung up as a piñata for union hotheads to vent their frustration on.
What could they have done other than go mad. OR being mad find their natural milieu, with their natural cohorts the lunatics in the asylum, or is that Augean Stables, of politics. The most parasitical occupation known especially in this 20th and 21st centuries when the world is awash with money and general civic irresponsibility. A “man/woman’s gotta do what a man/woman’s gotta do”.
As ALL these eminences in politics and civic institutions are, by definition, elite how could they possibly know or care about anything so common as common sense? And how can it be expected of them in their bubbles in which they can make pronouncements from their high places that affect the lives of those others who are so common, but against which they are themselves en masse immune.
This ” choom ” — thing —
perhaps it more accurately – shroom — as in psychedelic mushrooms, which are common in cow and horse pies, in Hawaii
that might help better explain his – ah – condition
Madness is NOT in the USA, Madness was and is still in Europe. It was the major reason behind the extermination of millions of Jews for no reason!!!?
However, a few weeks ago we saw that some political opponents of the President, including some Jews, pretending the phony outrage only for the sake of appeasement of Poles for political purposes.
Despite of my rabid support of American right wing politics and neo-Conservatism but this is a different story. And my great hope that every American will votes against President Obama is because of his defeatist policies not his lapses. President Obama made no gaffe on that subject…He told the truth! The president did not misspeak. Let’s be honest, above all with ourselves, if the President’s words had upset some in America or elsewhere, doubtless the President just read his speech of the teleprompter. But the question here needs to be answered “Who wrote those lines for him?!
But if the lines was written intentionally, no doubt this isn’t a failure of intelligence it is a failure of management. Yet, it was NOT a gaffe, it was just the painful truth!!!? But if President Obama really who wrote the speech himself, obviously he meant no disrespect and his intention was not to offend anyone, and is not necessary to doubt his intelligence in such case. I think no one is perfect. Most of great geniuses made mistakes all the time “Even Homer sometimes makes nods.”
I think, Mr. President meant a “death camp located within the Polish territories”. In this case, he made NO gaffe and his table should not have hit in this harsh tone by Poles. He doesn’t owe to Poles any apology. Moreover, unfortunately, some of conservatives are unfair with President Obama on this moral issue. I think they need to back off this sensitive humanitarian issue that touch the heart and soul of every alive Jew and also every one who felt his heart their suffering. On the other hand, most probably it would have been wrong to call it in German death camps because they were neither located in Germany nor run by ordinary Germans.
The reactions from some, in particular “Jews” it was an insult to the millions of Jews who suffered and murdered in those camps “The Polish Death Camps” which was the most brutal camps on European territories. As if those innocent victims weren’t part of your flesh and blood. If these nation have a military power equivalent to the America’s power, they certainly will eat the Jews again. This thing should not be excluded from mind.
My words this, are addressed to Americans, to Israelis, the Jews and to everyone is Pro-Jews “This issue should NOT be politicized”, therefore, all and above all “Jews and others” should have addressed this issue seriously instead of attacking President Obama. The attacking of President Obama is not going to help to scoring political points is more important than respecting the truth. So, anyone who pretends “denies facts” otherwise, is a hypocrite and a fraud. President Obama does many bad things, even he has done them legitimately, but acknowledging reality here is not one of them which is why Mr. President or you should NEVER apologize to Poles on this moral issue. Yes, indeed, we don’t need to manufacture phony outrage over things are not so bad just for the sake of political correctness and for gaining the public trust, or may some think that such statements might would cause loss of some allies. In reality when we talk about allies. there are some American Presidents did far more than President Obama to alienate close POWERFUL WESTERN allies to the USA.
The hostility toward Jews in Europe it is an inherited hostility among Europeans since the Middle Ages, since the Jews migrated to Europe. There is a long-standing history of the persecution of Jews throughout Europe, and even chased them to the birthplace of their Patriarchs in Jerusalem during the crusades. In England, Richard the Lionheart had ordered all Jews to be killed, at that time happened massacres, many Jews were beaten to death, robbed, and burned alive and many Jewish homes were burned down, and several Jews were forcibly baptised. Yes, in fact the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust was mainly based on “anti-Semitism”. It was a common cultural hatred that was widespread throughout Europe, in particular (Central of East of Europe) and still is widespread in Europe. because countries of East Europe traditionally is considered as “Christian Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant” where most of Eastern European people were very religious, whereas the Jews were the strangers, the ones who were the traditional enemies of Christian tradition. while in the Biblical stories which the local peasants had heard, that the Jews were depicted as (Christ killers). So if there were any bad event has happened in the village or the country such as illnesses, business failed or the like, then the outsiders would be blamed for that. this of course was basically one of main reasons for Jewish hatred.
Therefore, one reason that Poles are so sensitive about it, is because they fooled themselves about the Nazis. in Poland was a considerable amount of anti-Semitic solidarity before the occupation, which continued during the occupation and still strongly active in Poland. Like it’s a surprise that this history is ugly. In reality the Poles complicity in the Holocaust reflecting the pervasive anti-Semitism that infected the country before the German invasion in 1939.
Poland had a terrible long history of anti-Semitism before World War II. The Polish church was the major force promoting hatred toward Jews and is still at present. parts of Catholic Church today shockingly is anti-Semitic.
The fact is that the Poles are highly a hateful people, a envious people, and very rude people. Anti-Semitism is in every cell of their bodies cells, in milk their mothers . They do not like to see others to be best than them, their eyes are filled with envy and racism. Jews of Poland were the successful outsiders, they were good at business, so they were better off than Poles. In East and West Europe generally, when there were economic crises, the Jews were better at surviving than most of the locals. Therefore, hatred, envy, and racism grew and kept on doing so the more powerful they got in their communities.
I am NOT Pole nor Jew, but I rabidly Pro-Jews (for Good Jews). I do live for a long time in Poland. I saw something very horrible in this cursed country “Poland is shockingly awash in anti-Semitism, where the Jews here are most cursed and scorned.” long time here and I never heard even one word that glorify and respect the Jews. maybe by a few Poles does not exceed the number of fingers. But I heard a lot of words that disrespect and curse them. they blame Jews on their problems all the time.
The same is true of most of Arab and Muslim societies but the difference is that Arabs and Muslims are showing their hatred in public, which caused by some Satanic Koranic Verses and Muhammed’s Hadith and also a big part of hatred has came from the extreme Arab nationalism, but after all, there are MANY whom consider Jews as their brothers from descendant of Abraham through Ishmael, while the dislike here in Poland is hiddenly and it’s mainly based on ETHNIC element (Racism) and this is a very disgusting and gruesome thing.
However, the suffering of the Jewish people in the ghettos and death camps is almost incomparable to any other atrocity committed to our fellow man. Europeans tried to clean the surface of earth off the Jews. It was not a fictional story, it was a fact, it’s a stark reality. the European Jews were the primary victims of the Holocaust. during the war two out of every three European Jews had been killed. More or less 6 million Jews were killed in ways that are not humane during and after the WWII where represent more than 67% of European Jews. and millions were homeless and displaced, contributed to growing concern about the situation of the Jewish people worldwide.
Poland is a place where more Jews killed than in any other country in the world. Approx over 4 million Jews were murder in all Polish mass extermination camps by Nazis and their collaborators of Poles, especially at the worst camps on European soil ( Auschwitz, Trebkinka, Majdanek, Chelmno, Belzec and Sobibor). Only about 3 million were a Polish Jews. The rest were deported to Auschwitz and to other Polish extermination camps from countries far away from Poland, in particular, Jews from France, Greece, Hungary, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Auschwitz was the most feared of all the death camps, about 2 million Jews were killed in it. Polish Jews were virtually wiped out where that Jews are no longer a significant part of the Polish society, although they were forming a high rate of Poland population. According to the 1931 National Census there were prior the war, more or less 3.5 million Jews lived in Poland, making up 10 percent of the overall Polish population. while at present Poland’s Jewish population was estimated to be approximately not more than 20,000 to 29000, out of a population of 38 millions, although there are no census figures that would give an exact number. Over 90 percent were killed. The same proportion were killed in Baltic states and in most of central Europe countries.
About half of Polish Jews died due to starvation, disease and mass shooting by the Nazis and their collaborators. In fact the Poles did little to protect their Jewish neighbors, while in some European countries the people banded together to protect their Jews. In Poland, Poles worked in the ghettos and camps and watched their Jewish neighbours suffer and die, and rarely did anything to help them. The fact that the Poles have betrayed their Jewish neighbors, turned against them, pointing them out to the Nazi, sold them to Nazi for a bottle of Vodka, locked them into a Ghetto, packed them off to extermination camps and then, just when it was over they thought it best to try to finish Hitler’s work. After WWII when the jews were freed from concentration camps in Poland that the Poles tried to continue Hitler’s work and exterminate the Jews because they blamed them on their problems. such gruesome acts had happened mostly in most of rural areas and many major towns. For the same reasons I mentioned above. Whereas in some other European countries had a fairly good record in protecting their Jewish populations from the Nazis, including (Bulgaria, Italy, Finland, Norway and even France). In Denmark and Holland the people banded together to protect the Danish and Hollander Jews. In Denmark they actually smuggled virtually all the Jews to Switzerland before the Nazi’s invaded. The fact that Jews were the highest survival rate even in those countries that aligned with Nazi Germany, a countries had laws that permitted the extermination of Jews from their territories (e.g. Italy, France, Finland, and Bulgaria) that rejected Nazi anti-Semitism, the Jews survived in great numbers because there was no mass antisemitism in those countries. For example, Italy was an ally of Nazi during WWII. when comparing Italy with other European countries, we see that the fascist Italy, was a haven of safety and security not only for Italian Jews but for thousands of Jewish refugees who fleeing Nazi persecution in some countries. Italians did not committed any atrocities against their Jews just as the Nazi and its collaborators from Baltic States and Central Europe acted. Mussolini and his people consistently protected Jews throughout the war years. Italian Jews were in important positions in the government. No Jews were shipped to Concentration camps from Italy until Italy has lost its sovereignty and the SS took direct control over Italy late of the war. Might Jews were persecuted in fascist Italy after passage of anti-Jewish laws “Laws for the Defense of the Race”, but they were not murdered by Italians, they were killed by the Nazis when the Nazi occupied Italy.
Even the Atheistic nation “Russians”, although they were much worse than the brutal Nazis but it is said they did not stained their hands with the Jews bloods in the World War II period although they had a long history of anti-Semitism. The Russians did not hate the Jews. Jews in Russia were in important posts. Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky were in very prominent positions, they were of the most powerful and influential leaders in USSR, both had Jewish ancestry. The USSR was officially an atheistic country and they did not treat any religion favorably yet Stalin did not hate Jews. Under his leadership before the war, there was large scale campaign against anti-Semitism. During the war no pogroms happened by Russians against their Jewish neighbours, although during the 1930s was there the Great Purges by Stalin’s regime, after all, Joseph Stalin did not establish Death Camps for Jews, because that repression was not specifically aimed at the Jews. Jews, as an ethnic group, were not specifically targeted by Stalin. the campaign of great purges was targeted all citizens accused of conspiring against the Stalinist regime. Most probably it was political not ethnical. When the USSR invaded Poland from the East in a pact with the Nazis to divide the country, the Polish Jews were better treated than the Polish locals. The Poles were seen in the Russians’s eyes as traditional enemies, while the Jews were not. Add to that, there was a great one thing by Russians during WWII. Although Russians force mostly consider as “immoral atheistic force”, but they had a great share during the war where “their troops was helped liberate concentration camps in Poland”.
With regard to Racism and Football in Eastern Europe, especially these days we watch the Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine.
It was pretty generous and kind from some football teams to visit some of the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim,in particular, the players of the England and Holland and Italy.
Eastern European countries suffering from fatal disease (RACISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM), there is poor record of their fans behavior against black players. In Euro 2012, here was racist chants and racist symbols by the fans of some Eastern European countries against black players. It was against Italian black player Mario Balotelli and the Czech Republic defender Theodor Gebre Selassie.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?ID=273376&R=R1
Report by Sky “the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi threat to England fans “they warned black and Asian England supporters not to travel to the country for Euro 2012.”
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16228209
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