Poland isn't innocent of their complicity for the Holocaust...
"After killing in mass shootings almost 1.5 million Jews in hundreds of locations in occupied Soviet territories, the Germans decided to construct stationary killing centers in occupied Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau being the most well known. The ghettos became “holding pens” for Jews before deportation to a killing center.
As German forces implemented the killing, they drew upon some Polish agencies, such as Polish police forces and railroad personnel, in the guarding of ghettos and the deportation of Jews to the killing centers. Individual Poles often helped in the identification, denunciation, and hunting down of Jews in hiding, often profiting from the associated blackmail, and actively participated in the plunder of Jewish property.
There were incidents, particularly in the small towns of eastern Poland, where local Polish residents—acutely aware of the Germans’ presence and their antisemitic policies—carried out or participated in pogroms and murdered their Jewish neighbors. The pogrom in the town of Jedwabne in 1941 is one of the best-documented cases.
The Polish Government in Exile based in London sponsored resistance to the German occupation, including some to help Jews. For example, Zegota, the Council to Aid Jews, saved a few thousand Jews, even though helping a Jew in occupied Poland was punishable by death. Yad Vashem has identified more rescuers from Poland than any other country—6,532.
By the end of the war, three million Polish Jews—90 percent of the prewar population—had been murdered, one of the highest percentages in Europe. "
-- United States Holocaust Museum
Neither were the zionist's, who only wanted the wealthy jews out
The
Haavara Agreement (
Hebrew: הסכם העברה
Translit.:
heskem haavara Translated: "transfer agreement") was an agreement between
Nazi Germany and
Zionist German Jews signed on 25 August 1933. The agreement was finalized after three months of talks by the
Zionist Federation of Germany, the
Anglo-Palestine Bank (under the directive of the
Jewish Agency) and the economic authorities of Nazi Germany. It was a major factor in making possible the migration of approximately 60,000 German Jews to Palestine in 1933–1939.
[1]
The agreement enabled Jews fleeing persecution under the new Nazi regime to transfer some portion of their assets to
British Mandatory Palestine.
[2] Emigrants sold their assets in Germany to pay for essential goods (manufactured in Germany) to be shipped to
Mandatory Palestine.
[3][4] The agreement was controversial at the time, and was criticised by many Jewish leaders both within the Zionist movement (such as the
Revisionist Zionist leader
Ze'ev Jabotinsky) and outside it, as well as by members of the
NSDAP and members of the German public.
[4] For German Jews, the agreement offered a way to leave an increasingly hostile environment in Germany; for the
Yishuv, the new Jewish community in Palestine, it offered access to both immigrant labor and economic support; for the Germans it facilitated the emigration of German Jews while breaking the
anti-Nazi boycott of 1933, which had mass support among European Jews and was thought by the German state to be a potential threat to the German economy.
[4][5]
Haavara Agreement - Wikipedia