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Poland's Holocaust Denial

Videos Feb 7, 2018 Jan T. Gross

Princeton historian Jan T. Gross warns that Poland’s new law defending “the Polish nation” from accusations of complicity in the Nazis’ mass murder of Jews does more than limit free speech. It criminalizes the truth.

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Varsovian Warsaw Feb 8, 2018

Gross has long been ridiculous. Commonsense approach to Jedwabne - yeah, sure the German soldiers present were going to sit back and play second fiddle to a bunch of Poles. Yes, Poles shamefully took part in the German-organized massacre. Compare that to the Polish village of Koniuchy, where everyone was slaughtered by Jewish fighters - fighting as usual for Stalin. And the prequel to Jedwabne was the Jewish collaboration in the mass deportation of Poles from eastern Poland in 1939-41. Hundreds of thousands deported to Siberia, tens of thousands died. Gross dismisses this - because it won't sell books.
Gross' next book won't be about the Gestapo's Jewish wing. Yes the Gestapo employed 1000 Polish Jews to round up Jews. Zagiew. In just one operation - Hotel Polski - they rounded up 2500 Jews hiding with Polish families in Warsaw.
Both Poles and Jews were victims of the Nazis. When it came to the Communists it was different - vast numbers of Jews not only collaborated, but were intrinsic, hard core supporters of Communism.
White Russians told Hitler in the 1920s of the barbarism of Zemlyachka and Bela Kun - and their mass atavistic slaughters in Crimea. Poles behaved despicably on occasion - especially in anti-guerrilla operations in Ukraine - but they never plunged the depths of depravity of these two Jewish barbarians, who presaged the Holocaust.
- Silvia Torque Feb 9, 2018
  
  In an interview published in 2015 in the German Die Welt, Gross said that during World War 2 "Poles killed more Jews than Germans".
  Since that point, he cannot be treated seriously.
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