Read this, then we can talk about how the poor poles were under Nazi occupation.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/02/poland-holocaust-free-speech-nazi
'....For this seeks to cast Poles as blameless in the slaughter that took place in their midst, to hand them a "certificate of virginity", in the words of Konstanty Gebert, a journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza whose
most recent column dared prosecutors to come after him. "I hereby state," he wrote, "that numerous members of the Polish nation are co-responsible for certain Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich."
What he has in mind is, for example,
Jedwabne, where in 1941, one half of the town murdered the other half, the non-Jewish Poles turning on their Jewish neighbours – people they'd known for ever, people they had sat next to
in school – eventually herding hundreds of them into a barn and burning it to the ground. All told, they murdered 1,600 people. Only seven of the town's Jews survived.
Jedwabne is a singular case, but of the 3.2 million Jews who were murdered in Poland a sizeable number died at the hands not of Nazi Germans but of their fellow Poles. In
Hunt for the Jews, the Polish-born historian Jan Grabowski estimates some 200,000 Jews met their end that way. His meticulous mining of the archive revealed
a damning picture. Grabowski found case after case of Jews who had escaped the ghettoes and fled into the forests, only to be handed over to the Nazis by the Polish villagers who found them. Some Poles were coerced into taking part in this hunt for the Jews, but others were eager volunteers. The historian found documents that told how Bronisław Przędział, from the village of Bagienica, found two Jews while searching the woods near his home. After he betrayed them, Przędział demanded his reward from the German occupiers: 2kg of sugar. The rate varied. In some places it was 500 złoty for every Jew. Elsewhere it was two coats, formerly worn by Jews, for each Jew brought in..'
Go do research.
The history is very clear. The Nazis may have invaded Poland, but the killing of Jews was very much done without Nazis ever laying a helping hand in Poland.
