Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "History of the Jews in Poland" in English language version.
There were people everywhere who were prepared, for whatever motives, to do the Nazis' work for them. And if there was more anti-Semitism in Poland than in many other countries, there was also less collaboration.... The Nazis generally preferred not to count on outbursts of 'emotional anti-Semitism', when what was needed to realize their plans was 'rational antisemitism', as Hitler himself put it. For that, they neither received or requested significant help from the Poles.
Britain exerted pressure on the governments of Poland.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)Some of the information published by the Extraordinary State Commission was the result of conscious and purposeful falsification by Stalinist propagandists.[124]. [Also in:] Norman Davies (2012). God's Playground [Boże igrzysko]. Otwarte (publishing). p. 956. ISBN 978-8324015566. Polish edition, second volume.
Translation: The Soviet methods were particularly misleading. The numbers were correct, but the victims were overwhelmingly not Russian. Original: Same liczby były całkowicie wiarygodne, ale pozbawione komentarza, sprytnie ukrywały fakt, że ofiary w przeważającej liczbie nie były Rosjanami.
The most intense battles took place in the east but the fighting was not limited to this region; all over the country, partisans clashed with communist security forces. Repressions increased in the winter of 1945/46 and spring of 1946, when entire villages were burnt. The fighting lasted with varying intensity until 1948 and ended with thousands killed, wounded, arrested, or transported to the Soviet Union.[p. 26]
The phrase "Jewish paradise" (from Latin paradisus Judeorum), part of an enduring Polish proverb ("heaven for the nobles, purgatory for the townspeople, hell for the peasants, and paradise for the Jews"), originated in a xenophobic and antisemitic poem from 1606.
Some of the information published by the Extraordinary State Commission was the result of conscious and purposeful falsification by Stalinist propagandists.[124]. [Also in:] Norman Davies (2012). God's Playground [Boże igrzysko]. Otwarte (publishing). p. 956. ISBN 978-8324015566. Polish edition, second volume.
Translation: The Soviet methods were particularly misleading. The numbers were correct, but the victims were overwhelmingly not Russian. Original: Same liczby były całkowicie wiarygodne, ale pozbawione komentarza, sprytnie ukrywały fakt, że ofiary w przeważającej liczbie nie były Rosjanami.
The phrase "Jewish paradise" (from Latin paradisus Judeorum), part of an enduring Polish proverb ("heaven for the nobles, purgatory for the townspeople, hell for the peasants, and paradise for the Jews"), originated in a xenophobic and antisemitic poem from 1606.
Religion and Native Language (total). Section Jewish: 3,113,933 with Yiddish: 2,489,034 and Hebrew: 243,539.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)"By the end of the war, 3 million Polish Jews—90 percent of the prewar population—had been murdered by the Germans and their collaborators of various nationalities, one of the highest percentages in Europe."
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)Some of the information published by the Extraordinary State Commission was the result of conscious and purposeful falsification by Stalinist propagandists.[124]. [Also in:] Norman Davies (2012). God's Playground [Boże igrzysko]. Otwarte (publishing). p. 956. ISBN 978-8324015566. Polish edition, second volume.
Translation: The Soviet methods were particularly misleading. The numbers were correct, but the victims were overwhelmingly not Russian. Original: Same liczby były całkowicie wiarygodne, ale pozbawione komentarza, sprytnie ukrywały fakt, że ofiary w przeważającej liczbie nie były Rosjanami.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)Suggested reading: Arieh J. Kochavi, "Britain and the Jewish Exodus...," Polin 7 (1992): pp. 161–175