Polish-Jewish Relations: 1,300 Keyword-Phrase-Indexed Book Reviews (by Jan Peczkis)

Why?: Explaining the Holocaust, by Peter Hayes. 2017

Holocaust Textbook Promotes Assorted Holocaust Myths: Corrections Provided

Popular author Peter Hayes makes some dubious statements. Consider the following correctives:

The Nazi German extermination of 5-6 million Jews is a fact: The Nazis-were-out-too-kill-every-single-Jew (the usual talking point for the privileged status of the Holocaust) is not. For instance, a significant number of prominent German Jews were declared Aryans [given the DEUTSCHBLUTIGKEITSERKLARUNG (declaration of German blood)], by top Nazi officials (including Hitler himself):

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/holocaust-exceptional-all-jews-die-a-myth-rigg2/

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Who decides if a genocide is irrational or rational, and who decides that only tangible gain for the perpetrator can make a genocide rational? Besides, such sophistry is moot. It turns out, there is no valid dichotomy between material-gain and non-material-gain considerations behind Nazi policies towards the Jews:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/holocaust-exceptional-shoah-harmed-germany-a-myth-gruner/

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“Choiceless Choice” considerations, if applied evenhandedly, would also exonerate many gentile collaborators. In addition, Jewish culpability for collaboration with the Nazis cannot summarily be dismissed under this simplistic “choiceless choice” rubric:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/jewish-collaboration-repressed-ben-naftali/

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It is not unilaterally true that fugitive Jews, in rural areas of German-occupied Poland, had little chance of surviving. Nor were Polish rescuers of Jews just a handful of altruistic individuals. Thus far, over 100 “chains” of Polish families, and entire villages, have been identified as having rescued Jews in an organized manner:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/jan-t-gross-rebutted-in-detail-chodakiewicz/

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Here is a much more complete and objective work, on the Poles and fugitive Jews of rural Dabrowa County, than the decidedly-slanted JUDENJAGD (HUNT FOR THE JEWS) of Jan Grabowski:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/grabowski-judenjagd-corrected-musial/

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Looting was no more a Polish disease than it was a Jewish disease. It is common, war-related behavior. For example, Jewish soldiers and civilians systematically stole from Palestinian Arabs during the 1948 War:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/looting-wartime-jews-massively-robbed-palestinians-segev/
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Especially during and after wars, it is standard procedure for the belongings of the deceased to become the belongings of the living. In no sense did Poles “get rich” on post-Jewish properties after the Holocaust. Millions of Poles had lost their lives and their homes during the war and occupation. Despite the vacant post-Jewish properties now available to Poles, there remained a severe shortage of housing in Poland long after WWII:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/returning-survivors-resented-because-few-houses-lane/
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A number of Jewish (never mind Polish) testimonies, on Jedwabne, are being ignored. They state that the Germans, and not the Poles, were the main killers of Jedwabne’s Jews:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/jedwabne-german-deed-maik/
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Regardless of what exactly did or did not happen at Jedwabne and environs, massacres and pogroms, involving Poles and Jews, went both ways. Did you know that Jews murdered Poles at villages such as Brzostowica Mala, Naliboki, and Koniuchy?

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/atrocities-jewish-complicity-koniuchy-massacre-chodakiewicz/
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The massive overabundance of Jewish officers in the dreaded Communist security forces (U. B.–BEZPIEKA), minimally at 37% of total leadership against only 1% Jewish share of Poland’s post-WWII population, cannot be airbrushed out of history:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/zydokomuna-bezpieka-leaders-definitive-work-szwagrzyk/

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