to truly admire. the sort of run-of-the-mill ignorance I've gotten quite used to with this president Well, you shouldn't have to 'get used to it'. The man is supposed to be piloting the ship of state. He is representing all of us (supposidly ha ha ha). It is important that we have a competent person flying the plane that we are all on. Instead we have the crew from Airplane flying us into the ground. "Poland was an occupied nation, as was all the countries that had camps. One thing that some folks may not realize is that every single country that had a camp and Jewish population were complicit in rounding up and identifying who was Jewish." Where to begin? Poland, as a nation state, ceased to exist after it was partitioned by the Nazis and Soviets. There was no "country" to be complicit in Nazi atrocities, or not--only people. roesch/voltaire said... Pogo for once I have to agree with you on the shame the Poles face over their complicity with what went on in the camps. Complicity? If caught harboring a Jewish fugitive, a polish family was shot. Husband, wife, children, grandparents, whoever was in the house. You can understand why help was not more forthcoming, can't you? Not cooperating with the Nazi regime was a capitol offense. Many Poles risked their lives to help Jews. All of eastern Europe was exposed to this enlightened national Socialist policy. This is similar to the time Obama bungled all the