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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

In WW2 in Poland, would non-jews turn against Jews?

im wondering because of the nazi invasion, i wondered, in some people, fascist ways would rub on to the polish people?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Well there would have been Nazis in Poland before the invasion who would have fully supported the new Nazi government in rounding up and killing as many Jews as they could.

    As for the normal population (neither Nazi-Lovers nor Jews) they have reported Jews out of fear. In World War II, in Germany and its occupied countries, the public were greatly afraid of the Gestapo, Hitler's Secret police. They vastly overestimated the ability of the gestapo to find information and many people thought that if they knew something and didn't report it, the Gestapo would have found out and then they and their families would have been arrested and probably executed. They may therefore have reported Jews out of fear

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes. Germany was a better killing field regarding Jews but Poland wasn't an improvement.

    Jews who survived WW2 in Poland had for their best chance as armed partisans in mixed

    ethnic resistance. These usually were given imprisonment terms by Post-War Soviets.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes and Jews too. Even Rudolph Kastner turned against them,he made a deal with the devil so to speak. Also many other Zionist organizations turned against the Jews.

  • 1 decade ago

    I know that there are plenty of Polish people who aided Jews but there had to have been Poles who turned against them. The Polish people were also discriminated against so it's hard to believe the feeling of "every man for himself" was uncommon.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Well some people think so.. but i think that they would stand together what ever there beliefs Hitler was attacking all of poland not just the Jews.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Depends on the person, some people was looking out for them and other joined the SS

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_in_the_Wehrmach...

  • 1 decade ago

    IN 1945,WHEN THE JEWISH SURVIVORS OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS WERE REPATRIATED TO POLAND THERE WERE ANTI-SEMITIC RIOTS IN WARSAW.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    yep

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