Poland's willing executioners

Neighbors: the Destruction of the Jewish Community at Jewabne, Poland by Jan T Gross

… It tells, in unbearable detail, of the humiliation, systematic butchery, torture and burning alive of 1,600 Jewish men, women and children in the Polish town of Jedwabne on 10 July 1941.

This atrocity was perpetrated by their Polish neighbours who had, since June, begun to starve out the Jewish population. It did not involve any German units ...

… participation of the vast majority of the local Polish communities, who watched the carnival of Jewish agony with derisive indifference or active approval. When Jewish women strove to drown themselves and their babies in order to escape torture and incineration, there were Poles who stood on the banks cheering them on. ...

.. German military archives made available films showing Poles in Warsaw cheering and laughing at the spectacle of the last defenders of the ghetto leaping into the flames rather than surrender. These were not shown in Poland. Crimes against the Jews were the doing of the Nazi occupier. This version served the interests both of the communist regime and of Polish nationalism. …

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/apr/08/historybooks.features

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/jedwabne/yed999.html

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaL_uyEcaM8"]Legacy of Jedwabne - 57min. documentary - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VP7Kbw2uZ8"]Annual Copernicus Lecture: "Making History": An Intellectual Journey into the Hidden Polish Past - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG26HGo5qBc"]SP15 40923 Lecture 11: Poland-Dr. Michael Steinlauf- Part 1 - YouTube[/ame]

Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944–46

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Jewish_violence_in_Poland,_1944%E2%80%9346