Talk:Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz/@comment-89.231.73.249-20130223134254/@comment-108.14.87.198-20130318072822

Actually you're the one who doesn't know your history. While It was the German occupiers who perpetrated the Holocaust, the Polish citizens didn’t exactly resist. At least not early on. In fact, the most notorious of the Nazi extermination camps were located in Poland including Auschwitz and Treblinka. Significant numbers of Polish civilians went out of their way to find and turn in Jews for the small rewards offered by the Nazis. To be fair, there were many Polish citizens who went out of their way to help Jews at risk of death. The Germans ultimately murdered in Poland almost as many Poles as they did Jews (over 3,000,000 of each just in Poland) leading to more Polish attempts at resistance and less coopereation later in the war. While it would not be fair to condemn the entire country for their role in the Holocaust given the large number of citizens who did not cooperate with the Nazis, it would be equally incorrect to exonerate them completely from any involvement given the significant numbers who did help the Nazis early in the war.