All of Europe is responsible for the Holocaust

A dossier on the European accomplices of Hitler in the Holocaust of the Jews, published this week on the front page of the German weekly Der Spiegel, has sparked anger Wednesday in Warsaw.

•     The Germans are responsible for the Holocaust, the industrial murder of the Jews. But it has given little attention until now because of Hitler's henchmen had also volunteer accomplices abroad, said Spiegel.
  
      Several Polish newspapers have accused the German newspaper Wednesday to try to share with other Europeans the responsibility for the Holocaust.
  
      The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw told the AFP having asked the Polish Embassy in Berlin to discuss a response to the article in the Spiegel.
  
      While admitting that only Hitler and his entourage, or the Wehrmacht would have ended the Holocaust, the German newspaper claims that this does not detract from the argument that without the foreign accomplices, thousands, perhaps maybe even millions of Jews would have survived.
  
      In the death camps of Eastern Europe, there were up to 10 local accomplices to a German policeman, according to Der Spiegel.
  
      If a German journalist wrote this article, we are dealing with a premeditated lie, has hammered the Polish historian Antoni Dudek, cited Wednesday by the daily Polska.
  
      According to the theory of Spiegel, it is almost all of Europe which is responsible for the Holocaust. (This is absurd), historians believe, wrote Wednesday the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita.
  
      In its file, appeared at the recent deportation to Germany of the former Ukrainian Ivan Demjanjuk, the German weekly cites specific cases of killing or deportation or local accomplices who have played a major role, if not the leading role, particularly in the Baltics, Hungary, France, the Netherlands and Poland.
  
      Experts such as Dieter Pohl, Institute of Contemporary History in Munich, estimate that more than 200,000 the number of non Germans who have (prepared, performed and supported the murderous acts), or almost as much as the number of Germans and Austrians, said Der Spiegel.
  
      
  Ennaharonline/ M. O.