Poles in German Administration Was Not Collaboration

The Minsk Ghetto, 1941-1943, by Barbara Epstein. 2008. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London

German Administration? Frivolous and Sweeping Accusations of Collaboration with the Nazis

This book describes the Holocaust in German-occupied Belarus. I focus on accusations of Nazi collaboration, which have now become a staple of Jewish attacks and claims against Poles and Poland.

SERVICE IN THE GERMAN ADMINISTRATION ITSELF WAS NOT COLLABORATION!

Author Epstein writes, “Many of the accusations against members of the Minsk underground were based on the fact that they had worked for the Germans during the war, which was taken as evidence of voluntary collaboration…Many were not exonerated until the late 1950s…113 had been exonerated by 1962.” (pp. 239-240, 257). She adds that, “In regarding employment by the Germans as evidence of collaboration, the Soviets ignored the fact that Minsk residents needed to eat, and implicitly extended the accusation of collaboration to a large proportion of Minsk’s wartime population. After the war, the attitude of ‘guilty until proven innocent’ often created obstacles for Byelorussians applying for admission to universities in Moscow or elsewhere in the Soviet Union or for fellowships or jobs.” (p. 250).

This same Soviet-Communist trick, of equating working for the Germans with Nazi collaboration, is now revived by the Holocaust establishment in order to blame Poland for her imagined massive collaboration with the Nazi Germans. This is notably true of Jan Grabowski, Andrew Kornbluth, and the German historian Klaus-Peter Friedrich. For more on this, see:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2026/01/17/germans-dwarf-collaborators-polish-collaborators-insignificant/

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2025/06/04/exploit-nazi-collaborator-ambiguity-and-forgotten-communist-punishments/

FARCICAL COMMUNIST JUSTICE: SCRIPTED ACCUSATIONS, ANONYMOUS ACCUSERS, AND FORCED ACCUSERS

Epstein comments, “But there were many cases in which ‘witnesses,’ who may not have had any knowledge of the accused or of their behavior during the war, said what they were told to say. The names of these witnesses remain confidential, by law. Their testimony is accessible, but without the names of the witnesses it is virtually worthless. There were cases in which honest witnesses helped to discredit false charges. But ordinary witnesses said what they were told to say. Some may have done so willingly, but force was also used.” (p. 250).

Exactly the same kind of farcical justice was also characteristic of the August Trials, whose Pole-condemning verdicts are now conveniently dug up and treated as factual by the Holocaust establishment. See:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2026/02/19/august-decree-manipulations-dariusz-libionka-falsehoods/