SOC SCI H1F Chapter 13-17: Neighbors (Jan T. Gross) pp. 79-101
30 Jan 2017
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Origin of this explosive potential (80): the belief that jews used the fresh blood of innocent christian children (80) for the passover matzoh was deeply ingrained. Not only for those in remote country-sides, but also polish cities (e. g. , after wwii such rumors acted as mechanisms that triggered crowds into. The most infamous postwar pogroms, in cracow in 1945 and in kielce in. In scholarly literature, the shoah is recognized as modern: the practical undertaking of mass murder requires an efficient bureaucracy and a relatively advanced technology. Yet the massacre of the jedwabne jews reveals that there is yet another, deeper, more archaic layer of this enterprise (80: the motivations of the murderers. The writer claims that the jedwabne residents and peasants from the surroundings could not have yet managed to soak up the vicious anti- Jewish nazi propaganda, even if they had been willing and ready (80) Primitive, ancient methods and murder weapons and the absence of organization (80-81)
