Polish state antisemitism as a major factor leading to the Holocaust

The failure to take into consideration Poland's pre-war antisemitic policy and its war-time record blocks the way for a deeper understanding of the Holocaust. Such a mutilated version of the Holocaust has only been circulated out of ignorance. It is the version of the Holocaust which post-war Poland strives to perpetuate to clear its bane in the eyes of the world and which serves it well, to hold on to the loot that was plundered from its 3,500,000 murdered and exiled Jews