Original sentence: According to Polonsky the process of de-mythologizing Jewish history during Second World faces resistance from living survivors, but with time perhaps Jews will look critically at their history.Antony Polonsky stated that time has come for Jews to accept that their compatriots also carried out atrocities, and partisans involved in Koniuchy and Naliboki massacres committed "very evil things".Prior to the massacre and in response to raiding by Soviet partisans, the village had formed an armed self-defense force, approved by the occupying German authorities, to defend from the raids, though several historians stress the token nature of this self-defense force.The Soviets sources used the existence of this self-defense force as the main justification for the raid
Edited sentence: Prior to the massacre and in response to raiding by Soviet partisans, the village had formed an armed self-defense force with the encouragement and backing of the Lithuanian Auxiliary Police, to defend from Partisan raids; according to partisan sources the force's operations hindered their activity in the vicinity of the village significantly, though some historians stress the token nature of the force.While discussing anti-Semitic stereotypes and historical exaggerations of Jews' role in Soviet atrocities, Polonsky stated that time has come for Jews to accept that [some of] their compatriots also carried out atrocities, and partisans involved in Koniuchy and Naliboki massacres committed "very evil things"