False
charges
Toronto -- The exchanges about Prime
Minister Jean Chrétien's
visit to Auschwitz contained false charges
about Poles and Poland. The role of the Polish police during
the German occupation has been
exaggerated. Their function was
essentially keeping order. Raul
Hilberg, a prominent Holocaust
historian, makes the point that they did
not join the Germans in major operations
against Jews or local resisters. The claim that Jews did not betray
Poles to the Nazis is not true. There were
Jews in Poland who betrayed other Jews and
members of the Polish resistance. Many a
Polish rescuer was also betrayed by their
Jewish charges. Hanna Sokolski,
Canadian Polish Congress,
Toronto District
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