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Poland was an Allied power that fought against Nazi Germany in World War II. One in five Polish citizens were killed in the conflict, a total of six million people, half of whom were Jewish Poles. Poland was the only Allied power which fought against Nazi Germany from the first day of the war, 1 September 1939, until the last. The Polish contribution to World War II represented the fourth-largest Allied force in the European theater, and the country fielded 1 million troops against Nazi Germany, including 100,000 Jews fighting in Polish uniform, nearly two years before America and Russia joined them in 1941.

During the World War II German occupation of Poland, very few ethnic Poles or Polish Jews collaborated with the German occupation authorities. According to the Israeli War Crime Commission, less than 0.1% of Poles collaborated in any way with Germany.

Throughout the war and after, the Polish state in exile and resistance movement actively hunted down and eliminated collaborators.

Individual collaboration

Historians John Connelly and Leszek Gondek described Polish collaboration as having been “marginal", and Connelly wrote that "only a relatively small percentage of the Polish population engaged in activities that may be described as collaboration, when seen against the backdrop of European and world history". Klaus-Peter Friedrich, citing Richard C. Lukas and Czesław Madajczyk, wrote that "estimates of the number of Polish collaborators vary from seven thousand to about one million." Also, John Connelly wrote that "Polish historiography has hesitated to view as collaboration", instead preferring terms like 'social demoralization', ascribing it to a degenerate criminal element. (The pre-war Second Polish Republic had a population of about 35 million, including over 3 million Polish Jews.) Whether one abides by that preference affects the estimate, as well as whether one considers only ethnic Poles or members of Poland's pre-war German minority—former Polish citizens who declared themselves to be of German ethnicity (Volksdeutsche)—members of the Blue Police and low-ranking Polish bureaucrats forced to work under the Nazi administration.

Institutional collaboration

Unlike the situation in most European countries occupied by Nazi Germany where the Germans successfully installed collaborating authorities, in occupied Poland such attempts failed. The initial German aim was to form a collaborative Polish cabinet that would administer a Polish Protectorate, covering the area of ​​the General Government. Polish statesmen who refused to collaborate, such as Kazimierz Bartel, Stanisław Estreicher who was offered by the Nazis to become a president of a Polish Protectorate, and Wincenty Witos, were executed or imprisoned by the Germans, who soon gave up the idea of creating a Polish puppet state. Similar offer was rejected by Prince Janusz Radziwiłł, who however was not imprisoned. A few less prominent individuals, such as Andrzej Świetlicki of the National Radical Camp Falanga and Professor Władysław Studnicki sought official collaboration; they were unsuccessful in organizing any structures, generally limited to issuing statements and declarations, and seen as of little consequence by Nazi German authorities. Polish territory was either directly annexed to Germany or placed under a German administration called the General Government.The primary aim of Nazi Germany was to biologically exterminate Polish nation and General Gouvernment was to become exclusively German settled territory within 20 years Poland as a polity never surrendered to the Germans, instead evacuating its government and surviving armed forces in stages to Romania, France and the United Kingdom.

In October 1939 the Nazi authorities ordered mobilization of the pre-war Polish police to the service of the German occupation, thus creating the "Blue Police". The policemen were to report for duty by 10 November 1939 or face the death penalty. At its peak in 1943, the Blue Police numbered some 16,000 men. Their primary task was to act as a regular police force and deal with criminal activities, but they were also used by the Germans in combating smuggling and resistance and participated in roundups of random civilians (łapanka) and in patrolling for Jewish escapees from ghettos. Many of the Blue Police followed German orders reluctantly and at times even risked death by acting against them. Many Blue Police were in fact agents for the Polish resistance, and some were eventually honored with Israeli Righteous among the Nations awards for saving Jews. Blue Police and Kripo Police who collaborated with the Germans are each estimated at around 10%.

In 1940 the Polish Criminal Police ("Polish Kripo") was separated out from the Blue Police, under German management and command. It was a secret, armed auxiliary-police formation. The Germans tasked the Polish Criminal Police with apprehending Jews who were in hiding, for the Gestapo. Arrests were carried out once or twice a week.

In 1944 the General Government tried to recruit 12,000 Polish volunteers to "join the fight against Bolshevism". The campaign failed: only 699 men were recruited, 209 of whom either deserted or were disqualified for health reasons..

The German General Government also tried to create additional Polish auxilary police—Schutzmannschaft Battalion 107 and Schutzmannschaft Battalion 202. But most of the men deserted, and the two units were disbanded. Schutzmannschaft Battalion 107 mutinied against its German officers, disarmed them, and joined the Home Army resistance.

Poles in the Wehrmacht

Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, many former citizens of the Second Polish Republic from across the Polish territories annexed by Nazi Germany were forcibly conscripted into the Wehrmacht army in Upper Silesia and in Pomerania. They were declared citizens of the Third Reich by law and therefore subject to drumhead court-martial in case of draft evasion. Professor Ryszard Kaczmarek of the University of Silesia in Katowice, author of a monograph titled Polacy w Wehrmachcie (“Poles in the Wehrmacht") noted that the scale of this phenomenon was much larger than previously assumed, because 90% of the inhabitants of these two westernmost regions of prewar Poland were ordered to register on the German Deutsche Volksliste regardless of will. The exact number of the conscripts is not known, the data does not exist beyond the 1943.

In June 1946 the British Secretary of State for War reported to parliament that among the citizens of interwar Poland who signed Volksliste and later served in the German Wehrmacht, a total of 68,693 men were captured or surrendered to the Allies in North-West Europe. The overwhelming majority of them, 53,630, enlisted later into the Polish Army in the West, and fought against the Germans until the end of World War II.

Polish resistance and collaboration

The main Polish resistance organization was the Home Army (Armia Krjowa, or AK), numbering some 400,000 people. It actively fought the Germans. In one instance however, in 1944, the Germans clandestinely armed a few AK units operating in the Vilnius area in the hope that they would act against local Soviet partisans; soon, during Operation Ostra Brama, the AK turned these weapons against the Germans. Such arrangements were purely tactical and did not evince the kind of ideological collaboration shown by France's Vichy regime or Norway's Quisling regime. The Poles' main motive was to gain intelligence on German morale and preparedness and to acquire much-needed equipment. There were no known joint German-AK operations, and the Germans were unsuccessful in getting the Poles to fight exclusively the Soviet partisans. Further, most such collaboration by local commanders with the Germans was condemned by AK headquarters. Tadeusz Piotrowski quotes Joseph Rothschild as saying that "The Polish Home Army was by and large untainted by collaboration" and adds that "the honor of the AK as a whole beyond reproach."

A single partisan unit of the Polish right-wing National Armed Forces (Narodowe Siły Zbrojne, or NSZ), the Holy Cross Mountains Brigade, numbering between 800 and 1,500 soldiers, decided to tacitly cooperate with the Germans in late 1944. It ceased hostile operations against the Germans for a few months, accepted logistical help, and—late in the war, with German approval, to avoid capture by the Soviets—withdrew from Poland into Czechoslovakia. Once there, the unit resumed hostilities against the Germans and on 5 May 1945 liberated the Holýšov concentration camp.

In some areas of eastern Poland, AK units skirmished with the communist Armia Ludowa (AL), which was a Polish partisan militia that included detachments of Jewish partisans.

Poles and the Holocaust

According to historian Gunnar S. Paulsson, in occupied Warsaw (a city of 1.3 million, including 350,000 Jews before the war) some 3,000–4,000 Poles functioned as blackmailers (szmalcownik) who exploited Jews and their Polish rescuers, or denounced both to the Germans. The Polish Secret State treated such blackmailers as collaborators and judicially executed them.

In the eastern Polish territories occupied by the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1941, a substantial percentage of Polish Jews collaborated with the Soviets, implanting in the Polish collective memory the image of Jews as willing communist collaborators. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, a hunt for collaborators, combined with the notion of Żydokomuna ("Judeo-Communism"), spurred on by German encouragement of extreme antisemitism, resulted in summer 1941 in a number of massacres of Jews by Poles in Poland's northeast, the best-known being the Jedwabne massacre. Several other, similar incidents included the Wąsosz pogrom, the Szczuczyn pogrom, and the Tykocin pogrom.

Many Jews in hiding, sought by the Germans, received organized and individual help from the Poles, ranging from major acts of heroism to minor acts of kindness, involving hundreds of thousands of helpers, often acting anonymously. This rescue effort occurred even though ethnic Poles were, from October 1941, subject to death sentence by the German police if found offering any kind of help to a person of Jewish faith or origin. Poland was the only German-occupied country in Europe in which such a death penalty was imposed. On November 10, 1941, the death penalty was expanded by Hans Frank to apply to Poles who helped Jews "in any way: by taking them in for a night, giving them a lift in a vehicle of any sort" or "feeding runaway Jews or selling them foodstuffs." The law was made public by posters distributed in all major cities. Capital punishment, meted out to the entire family of any Pole who helped a Jew, was the most draconian penalty ever imposed anywhere in Europe by the Germans. In total, some 30,000 Poles were executed by the Nazis for hiding Jews.

Ethnic Germans

During the invasion of Poland in September 1939, members of the ethnic German minority in Poland (Volksdeutsche) assisted Nazi Germany in its war effort. They committed sabotage, diverted regular forces and committed numerous atrocities against civilian population.

Shortly after the German invasion of Poland, an armed ethnic German militia called Selbstschutz was formed. It organised the mass murder of Polish elites in Operation Tannenberg. At the beginning of 1940, the Selbstschutz organization was disbanded, and its members transferred to various units of the SS, Gestapo and the German police. The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle organised large-scale looting of property and redistributed goods to the Volksdeutsche. They were given apartments, workshops, farms, furniture, and clothing confiscated from Jewish Poles and Poles of Polish ethnicity.

During the German occupation of Poland, Nazi authorities established the German People's List (Deutsche Volksliste, DVL), whereby former Polish citizens of German ethnicity were registered as Volksdeutsche. The German authorities encouraged registration of ethnic Germans, and in many cases made if mandatory. Those who joined were given benefits, including better food as well as a better social status. However, members of the Volksdeutsche were required to perform military service for the Third Reich, and hundreds of thousands of the Volksdeutsche joined the German military, either willingly or under compulsion.

Collaboration by Polish Jews

The Judenrat (Jewish council) was a Jewish-run governing body set up by the Germans in every ghetto and Jewish community across occupied Poland. The Judenrat functioned as a self-enforcing intermediary that was used by the Germans to control a ghetto's or Jewish community's inhabitants and to manage the ghetto's administration. A Judenrat collected information on the Jewish population and supervised the volunteer Jewish Ghetto Police (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) in helping the Germans collect Jews and load them onto transport trains bound for concentration camps. In some cases, Judenrat members exploited their positions to engage in bribery and other abuses. In the Łódź Ghetto, the reign of Judenrat head Chaim Rumkowski was particularly inhumane, as he was known to get rid of his political opponents by submitting their names for deportation to concentration camps, hoard food rations, and sexually abuse girls. Political theorist Hannah Arendt stated that without the assistance of the Judenrat, the Germans would have encountered considerable difficulties in drawing up detailed lists of the Jewish population, thus allowing for at least some Jews to avoid deportation.

The Jewish Ghetto Police were recruited from among Jews living within the ghettos who could be relied on to follow German orders. They were issued batons, official armbands, caps, and badges and were responsible for public order in the ghetto; they were used by the Germans for securing the deportation of other Jews to concentration camps. The numbers of Jewish police varied greatly depending on the location, with the Warsaw Ghetto numbering about 2,500, Łódź Ghetto 1,200 and smaller ghettos such as that at Lwów about 500. The Jewish ghetto police distinguished themselves by their shocking corruption and immorality. The Polish-Jewish historian and Warsaw Ghetto archivist Emanuel Ringelblum described the cruelty of the ghetto police as "at times greater than that of the Germans."

Some Polish Jews, belonging to the collaborationist groups Żagiew and "Group 13", inflicted considerable damage on both the Jewish and Polish underground movements. These Jewish collaborators served the German Gestapo as informers on Polish resistance efforts to hide Jews, and engaged in racketeering, blackmail, and extortion in the Warsaw Ghetto. Similar Jewish group and individual collaborators of the Gestapo operated in other towns and cities across German-occupied Poland — Abraham Gancwajch and Alfred Nossig in Warsaw, Józef Diamand in Kraków, and Szama Grajer in Lublin. One of the Jewish collaborationist groups' baiting techniques was to send agents out as supposed ghetto escapees who would ask Polish families for help; if a family agreed to help, it was reported to the Germans, who—as a matter of announced policy—executed the entire family.

Another Jewish group that collaborated with the German Nazis was known as the Jewish Social Self Help (Template:Lang-de) (also known as the Jewish Social Assistance Society). It was funded by American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee which also supplied it with legal cover. The group was authorized to work in General Gouvernment and under Hans Frank, subsequently it moved to Krakow where Hans Frank set up his headquarters in occupied Poland. Some members of Jewish Social Self Help were active in sending Warsaw Jews to death camps.

See also

• Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II
• Goralenvolk
• Trawniki men

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