-Caveat Lector- You are of course absolutely correct.
There were poles who helped members of my family, at great personal risk. There were poles who were happy grab my family's homes as soon as they had turned them, their neighbors of many years, into the Nazis. My own experience of Poland showed me more people who tended toward the latter extreme rather than the former. But it was a very unsettled time when I was in Poland (1990) and such times press people towards distasteful extremes. on 12/02/02 12:39 PM, Nessie SFBG at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > >> The poles were all too happy to go along with the Germans, > > > That's not true, even of the goyish Poles. It is unfair and > ahistorical to lump all Poles together. Many Poles resisted. All > suffered. While it is true that some Poles collaborated, not all > Polish collaborators were goyish. There were Jewish collaborators, > too. Some even put on uniforms and took up arms against their fellow > Jews. "Judenrat": look it up. Other Jews fought back ferociously. Yet > others simply ran or hid. Same goes for their goyish countrymen. > Poles, like any nationality, are an extremely mixed bag. > > To lump all Poles, all goys, all Jews or all anybody, together is > racist. It's also at odds with the facts on the ground. Life is a > *lot* more complicated. Individuals need to be judged as individuals. > Guilt by association and group punishments are wrong. > > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER > ========== > CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic > screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are > sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- > directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with > major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. > That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and > always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no > credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. > > Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. > ======================================================================== > Archives Available at: > http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html > <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of > [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> > > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> > ======================================================================== > To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: > SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: > SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Om -- Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ' My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian. Diderot c. 1762 NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
