@tuban_muzuru @bojacobs Poland has seen 3 million of...

@tuban_muzuru @bojacobs Poland has seen 3 million of their Jewish citizens murdered, whereas in France, it was ~75k in both Vichy and the occupied zone, and most of them were of non-French nationality (not that it matters, but hardly "full compliance"). Overall survival rate of Jews in France was over 75%, one of highest. Compare that to Romania, which murdered almost 400k Jewish people without even being occupied by Germany. 75k is absolutely an atrocity, but what you're saying just isn't true.

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tuban_muzuru

@vonxylofon @bojacobs

What happened at Drancy?

Did the Poles actively participate in the rounding up and sending the Jews ( and of course, themselves, the Romany and many others ) to the death camps?

9 July at 6:47 | Open on ohai.social

Von Xylofon

@tuban_muzuru @bojacobs Many did, absolutely, and Kaczyński's government was hell-bent on covering it up: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-historians-under-attack-for-exploring-polands-role-in-the-holocaust

Jews faced intense repressions and the Polish government wanted to deport them even before the German invasion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Poland

Having said all that, there were an immense numbers of individual Poles who helped Jews and risked their lives for it, and therefore the overall role of Poland in Holocaust is debated.

Edit: I believe Drancy is included in the 75k.

Jews faced intense repressions and the Polish government wanted to deport them even before the German invasion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Poland

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9 July at 8:34 | Open on witter.cz

tuban_muzuru

@vonxylofon @bojacobs

Have it your way. France's abject capitulation to the Nazis, the Milice, it may well be there were other governments who connived with the murder of the Jews - but Drancy was unique.

It was French.

9 July at 8:38 | Open on ohai.social