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1、ConfrontingchillingtruthsaboutPoland’swartimehistoryByLaurenceWeinbaum April21LaurenceWeinbaumisdirectoroftheIsraelCouncilonForeignRelations,whichoperatesundertheauspicesoftheWorldJewishCongress,andahistorianspecializinginmodernPolishJewishhistory.Thet
2、ransmissionofhistoryrequiresknowledgebutalsonuance.NowhereisthismoreevidentthanwhenexaminingthetorturousrelationsbetweenJewsandthelocalpeopleamongwhomtheylivedinPolandandelsewhereinGerman-occupiedEurope.Sadly,thecarelesslydrafted,thoughpresumablywell-i
3、ntentioned, wordsofFBIDirectorJamesComeydisplayedneither.Comey’sreferenceto“themurderersandaccomplicesofGermany,andPoland,”inaspeechthatwasgivenattheU.S.HolocaustMemorialMuseumandadaptedforanop-edinThePostlastweek,suggestedthatintermsofresponsibilityfo
4、rtheHolocaust,PolesaresomehowtobecomparedwiththeGermans(nevermindtheAustrians,whomComeyfailedtoevenmention).PolandwasthefirstnationinEuropetoresisttheGermanonslaught—anditdidso,ferociously,bothathomeandinexile,fromthefirstdayofthewarin1939whenitwasinva
5、deduntilthelast.Hopelesslyoutmannedandoutgunned,Polessufferedstaggeringlossesinbloodandproperty.TheGermansontheotherhandwerethearchitectsandexecutorsoftheFinalSolution—astatepolicycarriedoutwithmurderousefficiency—andnothingcanalterthatreality.However,
6、thefuriousreactionstoComey’sremarksbyatleastsomeofPoland’sspiriteddefenderswouldalsosuggestalackofknowledgeandnuance,orsomethingmoredisturbing—adisinclinationtoconfrontcertainchillingtruthsabouttheircountry’swartimehistory,asrecentlyrevealedbyPolishsch
7、olarsofthepost-Communistgeneration.TheRomanscholarTacitusimploredpractitionersofthehistorian’scrafttoapproachtheirresearchsineiraetstudio(withoutangerandfondness).Heinsistedthatequanimitywasessentialtocrediblescholarship.Ofcourse,thiscallfordispassioni
8、sespeciallychallengingwhereaperceivedstainonthenationalescutcheonisconcerned.Nevertheless,Polishscholarshavedisplayednotonlyequanimity,butalsoadmirabledeterminationandinspiringcourageinferretingoutthevilestskeletonsinPoland’scollectivec
