Holocaust scholar questioned on claim Poles killed more Jews than Germans in war
Princeton professor Jan Tomasz Gross says prosecutors in Poland asked for information to back up his assertion in 2015 article
A Polish prosecutor has questioned a
Polish-American scholar, Jan Tomasz Gross, to determine if he committed the crime of publicly insulting the nation with a statement on Polish violence against Jews during the second world war.
?I told him straight that I was not trying to insult the Polish nation. I was trying to raise awareness about the problem of refugees in Europe,? he said. ?I am just telling the truth and the truth sometimes has a shocking effect on people who are not aware of what the truth is.?
Jacek Leociak, a historian with the Polish Center for Holocaust Research, said it was difficult to establish exactly how many Jews were killed by Poles during the war but that the number was significant. He said Gross?s comparison could be correct if speaking about Germans killed by Polish underground forces in occupied Poland, and not the Polish army fighting on the western and eastern fronts.
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The claim that Poles killed more Jews than Germans could be really right ? and this is shocking news for the traditional thinking about Polish heroism during the war,? Leociak said. He said Gross?s comparison had merit because it ?reveals this dimension of the Polish war experience which was always covered, hidden and suppressed?.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...germans-in-war
The truth sometimes has a shocking effect on people (c) Jan Tomasz Gross, scholar