During the German occupation, the Poles killed more Jews than Germans
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The inscription "We will not apologize for Jedwabne" is painted in Jedwabne, Poland, on September 1, 2011, on a monument dedicated to the Jews from the town of Jedwabne who were burned by their Polish neighbors in 1941.
According to the AP news agency, Polish prosecutors questioned Polish-American historian Jan Tomasz Gross to find out whether he had committed a criminal act and insulted the Polish nation by criticizing the actions of Poles towards Jews during 2nd World War.
Jan Gross was born in Poland, his parents miraculously survived the Holocaust. He is a professor at Princeton University in the USA. Gross’s books on Poland and the Holocaust have attracted attention and become the subject of debate. In his book “Neighbors. Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne (“Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne”), published in 2001, the author says that the Jews in the city of Jedwabne were destroyed during the war by the Poles , not the Germans. Gross’s book "Golden Autumn", which also criticizes the Poles, was published in Danish in 2012. On Tuesday, April 12, the author of the book was questioned for five hours by a prosecutor in the city of Katowice, but according to the AP news agency, Gross does not know whether this will lead to charges. For insulting the Polish people you can get three years in prison.
The conflict between Jan Gross and the Polish authorities has been going on for several years. In 1996, Gross received a prize from the Polish government for his research, and the current President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, threatened to take away this prize. According to the AP agency, the Polish president has not yet made a final decision. The showdown with Gross, according to the agency, indicates that the current national-conservative Polish government has some problems with its position when it comes to academic freedom and democracy.
The inscription "They were flammable" and a swastika were painted in Jedwabne, Poland, on September 1, 2011, on a monument dedicated to Jews from the town of Jedwabne who were burned by their Polish neighbors in 1941. After the war, in 1949-50, the authorities of the People’s Republic of Poland detained and interrogated a number of suspects from the Jedwabne area, accusing them of collaborating with the German occupiers in committing a pogrom, and tried them. Of the 22 accused, 12 were convicted of treason against Poland and one person was sentenced to death. Later it turned out that during the pre-trial investigation, the security service, which included many Jews, brutally tortured them, and many confessed to fictitious crimes
The reason for the latest conflict between Gross and the authorities was an article that Gross published last year, in which he claimed that the Poles killed more Jews than Germans during the German occupation of Poland. In the article, Gross linked the events of the Second World War with the current destructive attitude of Eastern Europe towards the flow of refugees into Europe and argued that it was all rooted in the region’s "bloody past." The AP contacted Polish prosecutors, who said they could not disclose the contents of the conversation with Gross, but Gross himself tells the AP that he was asked to document his statements and asked whether he intended to offend Poles.
Jacek Leociak, a fellow at the Polish Center for Holocaust Propaganda, tells the AP that it is difficult to determine how many Jews the Poles killed during the war, but that the figure is significant. He says Gross’s assessment may be correct if one limits oneself to the number of Germans killed by members of the Polish resistance in occupied Poland, but does not take into account the Poles who fought alongside the Allies on the Western and Eastern Fronts. Jacek Leociak tells AP:
“The claim that the Poles killed more Jews than Germans may be true, and this is shocking news for those who believe what is usually told about the struggles of the Poles during the war.”
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