JWST 240 Chapter reading: Reading Neighbours, pg. 132 - 135
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The einsatsgruppen, german police detatchments, and various functionaries who implemented the final solution did not compel the local population to participate directly in the murder of jews. Bloody pogroms were tolerates, sometimes even invited especially after the opening of the russo- A lot of prohibitions concerning the jews were issued as well. In occupied poland, people could not, under penalty of death, offer assistance to jews hiding outside of the german designated ghettos. There were sadistic individuals who in camps might force prisoners to kill each other, but in general nobody was force to kill the jews. The so called local population involved in killings of. Jews did so of their own free will. In the collective jewish memory in poland, people killed the jews because they wanted to, not because they had to. Michal glowinski was a little boy at the time of.
